Popular Post wiggoforgold Posted December 3, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 3, 2023 I’ve made a start on the road across the middle of layout. As before the basic shape of the road was built up from mounting board. A couple of squares were cut into the card and pre-prepared glass slide cover strips glued in place as the basis of puddles. Das was applied to create the basic shape. Baulks were laid against the rails where the road crosses the railway. These were made from cut down coffee stirrers. A toy lorry was pushed along the wet Das to create tyre tracks and ruts The area was as sealed with a couple of coats of burnt umber acrylic and the line of the road marked in in pencil. The road was painted with a mixture of Mig earth and rotbraun (which gives a reddish tinge to the earth) and while wet this was sprinkled with a mixture of grout and chinchilla dust. When dry this was hoovered off. The edges and middle of the road were painted with pva and Treemendus earth powder sprinkled on. At this point I managed to lose part of the nozzle of the airbrush (it’s somewhere on the garage floor) so I had to hand paint the surface which proved to be better . Various Mig acrylics were used blended together with lots of water. When dry, further bleeding and shading was done with weathering powders. Next steps will be the addition of mud and vegetation. 22 9 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wiggoforgold Posted December 4, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 4, 2023 The grass has started to grow 38 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc smith Posted December 4, 2023 Share Posted December 4, 2023 I haven't checked in to Lydbrook Dean for a while.... and I'm so glad I did today. This layout just keeps getting better and better. You really have captured a sense of the place. Looking fab :) 1 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wiggoforgold Posted December 4, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 4, 2023 I posted this picture in another forum earlier today, but I am so pleased with it I am reposting it here. I think it sums up the atmosphere I am trying to capture, the last years of steam in the Forest of Dean. The layout will be at the Edington show on 6/7 January 2024, so there will be more pictures of trains on the layout as I get ready for that. 40 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wiggoforgold Posted December 10, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2023 A quiet moment at Lydbrook Dean - pretty typical really. 23 11 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2023 How. On. Earth. Have I not found this thread before? Having my own 7mm scale slice of Not Quite The Forest in the garage, nothing like the standard of this model but it keeps me out of trouble, we are inspired by the same books. I saw mention from @MrWolf about 8745 being a rivetty tank Pannier that ran in the Forest, that is the subject of my Minerva model. Like Rob, you have inspired me greatly, I must get on with the layout, some medical issues have held things up recently but it's no excuse really! I look forward to seeing more of your fantastic modelling. 16 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggoforgold Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 Thanks Neil. I like your pannier. I was happy with the Bachmann one but a chat with CK about riveted tanked panniers in the Forest has got me looking at an Accurascale one. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 11, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 11, 2023 11 hours ago, wiggoforgold said: a chat with CK about riveted tanked panniers in the Forest has got me looking at an Accurascale one. Indeed, 8729, 8745, 8749 - all variations on the two themes of top feed verses non-top feed and riveted verses welded tanks... All worked in the Forest during the time that people like Ben Ashworth were taking photos. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PMP Posted December 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 11, 2023 8749 had top feed and non top feed boilers whilst in the forest. I found out the hard way when I thought doing a top feed version the number seemed more familiar than it normally would have. Turns out I’d already modelled it with riveted tanks and no top feed. A rapid order for new plates followed for the T/F fitted version! 11 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post New Haven Neil Posted December 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2023 When I saw the Minerva one I really wanted a rivetted version, and searched the books I have for an example - there's a great Ashworth view of 8745 from three quarter rear with the light really highlighting the rivets - job done! 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 12, 2023 18 hours ago, PMP said: 8749 had top feed and non top feed boilers whilst in the forest. That's very interesting. I've been basing my comments on Ben Ashworth photos in the book 'BR Steam in Dean'. I couldn't not readily see any photos of the loco in the larger Lightmoor work. I have a feeling that the riveted tank, top-feed version is not on the first batch of Accurascale panniers (although I stand to be corrected). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PMP Posted December 12, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 12, 2023 1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said: That's very interesting. I've been basing my comments on Ben Ashworth photos in the book 'BR Steam in Dean'. I couldn't not readily see any photos of the loco in the larger Lightmoor work. I cross referenced two books, one was almost certainly SiD, where I think I took the original source pic from. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wiggoforgold Posted December 12, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2023 (edited) Mineral wagons being delivered to and collected from the quarry. Edited December 12, 2023 by wiggoforgold 32 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wiggoforgold Posted December 15, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 15, 2023 A brace of panniers await their next duty at Lydbrook Dean 28 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 15, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, wiggoforgold said: A brace of panniers await their next duty at Lydbrook Dean Double headed panniers in the Forest?! - must be taking a rest from the weedkilling train, or waiting while the quarry shunter loads an exceptionally heavy train of ballast hoppers... Edited December 15, 2023 by Captain Kernow 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted December 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 15, 2023 38 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: exceptionally heavy train of ballast hoppers... Presumably you're thinking of those evocative shots on pages 25 and 27 of Ashworth/Pope, that always make me think of Appalachian coal-hauler layouts 😎 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 10 hours ago, franciswilliamwebb said: Presumably you're thinking of those evocative shots on pages 25 and 27 of Ashworth/Pope, that always make me think of Appalachian coal-hauler layouts 😎 10 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: Double headed panniers in the Forest?! Yep - as FWW alludes to, it did happen, & thanks to Mr Ashworth, we have photos to prove it!! 😁👍🥳 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wiggoforgold Posted December 16, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2023 (edited) 8701 waits for 3737 to leave the yard with empty wagons. 8701 with a short goods train ready to leave Lydbrook Dean. Edited December 16, 2023 by wiggoforgold 27 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 16, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2023 1 hour ago, wiggoforgold said: 8701 waits for 3737 to leave the yard with empty wagons. This is lovely and very reminiscent of the photo of two panniers in Coleford (S&W) station in BR days. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Re6/6 Posted December 16, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2023 (edited) Alex I hope that you don't mind me butting in with a couple of old Netherhope pictures. Edited December 16, 2023 by Re6/6 26 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted December 16, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2023 Lovely modelling. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggoforgold Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 2 hours ago, Re6/6 said: Alex I hope that you don't mind me butting in with a couple of old Netherhope pictures. No problem John. How did you do the tunnel walls? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 That first picture and its disused halt was immediately recogniseable, thanks for sharing. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 16, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2023 7 hours ago, wiggoforgold said: No problem John. How did you do the tunnel walls? I think that I used Slaters coarse stone Plasticard Alex 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wiggoforgold Posted December 17, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 17, 2023 Looking down the hillside to 3737 shunting in the quarry 21 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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