Lellizzick Quay a NCR backwater

[AdeMoore]

3 hours ago, ISW said:

I can offer you the following photo, taken in 1979 from an excursion train from Liverpool. The photo is looking towards rear of train (loco at both ends as no turning facilities at the destination, Meeth) in direction of Torrington.

 

Not sure if this helps?

 

Ian

Cheers Ian and welcome along! My half decent attempts are no comparison to your meticulous layout in the making!

But anyway brilliant contribution to the thread thanks, much more greenery than I imagined, as this would only be what 1966 to 1979 13 years after steam. I guess being riverside it would be good growing conditions. Depends how much the railway owned and the PW gang tackled it in the steam days.

Thanks  very  much.

[AdeMoore]

Getting there on the tunnel mouth.
Foam and Light filler used to shape it.
Acrylic paint thrown on and a bit of basket liner and some commercial tufts added with Matt medium as the adhesive.
Below the section I’m working on.
 

 

 

 

 

 

Above a few straight cracks need more disguise! Should of ripped it all out when I decided to go higher rather than adding too.
Below the ballast is troubling me I’ve gone level with the sleepers in a place or 5 and it looks wrong. So started diggin out the ballast.

 

 

As those sleepers on the left below.
Also the actual stone in the ballast has dusted the sleepers and will not come off. So I’m in for repainting all those too 
 

 

Little update coming together a bit now.
Cheers for looking in and the likes.
Have a healthy and prosperous 2024 all.

 

Edited January 7 by AdeMoore
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[ISW]

1 hour ago, AdeMoore said:

Also the actual stone in the ballast has dusted the sleepers and will not come off. So I’m in for repainting all those too

Have you tried a fibreglass pencil to remove the 'ballast dust' from the sleepers. They are quite 'aggressive', and mind the bits of fibreglass that fly off! Keep a vacuum handy ...

 

Ian

[AdeMoore]

2 hours ago, ISW said:

Have you tried a fibreglass pencil to remove the 'ballast dust' from the sleepers. They are quite 'aggressive', and mind the bits of fibreglass that fly off! Keep a vacuum handy ...

 

Ian

Hi Ian,

 

No Tried that to be honest as they are painted with acrylic I’ve not tried anything other than water and a cotton bud.

I suspect the dust has gone into the acrylic as I doubt it was bone dry when I did the ballast! Not thinking there was I.

I guess I could try it though nothing to loose.

It was a mix of fine woodland scenics and my own crushed lightweight building block.

So I guess I’ll drop the real stuff in the mix next time.

Always learning and learning by mistakes!

Cheers.

Edited January 7 by AdeMoore
Added a bit

[ISW]

8 hours ago, AdeMoore said:

It was a mix of fine woodland scenics and my own crushed lightweight building block.

So I guess I’ll drop the real stuff in the mix next time.

Ballast was one of the few things I didn't 'skimp' on. I mostly used Woodland Scenics 'fine' ballast, which is actually very lightweight. However, I did pick up a few additional bags of 'proper' stone ballast at a Swap Meet; much heavier. I then made up my own 'recipes' mixing 2 colours of ballast at a time, and threw (literally) some 'contrasting' ballast over the top in places to add variety.

 

Ian

[AdeMoore]

Was an easy process to remove the ballast as I demonstrate here.
Matte Medium the adhesive doesn’t go rock hard at 25 to 75 diluted to water.

 

 

Then sucked off with a vacuum with a cloth over to recover it.
Crushed back to loose again slightly and reused beside the track as below.
 

 

 

 

Sleepers repainted below.

 

 

More soon.
Cheers for the likes and looking in.

Edited January 14 by AdeMoore
Added text between photos

[ISW]

1 hour ago, AdeMoore said:

Crushed back to loose again slightly and reused beside the track as below.

As you sure that's a good idea? I know that 00-gauge ballast is oversized (which is why I use N-gauge ballast on my 00-scale layout) and smaller sizes would be better, but the incorporation of 'dust' into the ballast will just make it set even harder. Unless, of course, you are sieving it before reuse?

 

Ian

[AdeMoore]

59 minutes ago, ISW said:

As you sure that's a good idea? I know that 00-gauge ballast is oversized (which is why I use N-gauge ballast on my 00-scale layout) and smaller sizes would be better, but the incorporation of 'dust' into the ballast will just make it set even harder. Unless, of course, you are sieving it before reuse?

 

Ian

Hi Ian it’s woodland scenics fine more n gauge than 00 I have done away with the real stuff causing problems by staining the sleepers with dust which is why I repainted them!

the stuff I reused was just up against the rock outcrop not on the track that will be new.

Essentially what you said not a good idea to reuse on the track.

Though with a small hammer in a jar it did go down quite fine again probably as it had real stone in it!

Cheers for the advice.

Ade

[AdeMoore]

In case anyone is interested this is the true artist at work Boomer. The Matte Medium appears at 16.42 mins.

 

Now I see he uses real limestone to better effect than I managed!

I’ll have to study the video again!