bridgiesimon Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 I am off work (Holiday time) this week and plan to get some more work on the layout and a few piccies over the next few days so should be an update or two on the way. Best wishes Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 A quick update before additional piccies are taken - The lighting is now installed behind to, now painted, fascia. It has a dimmer switch included so I can adjust it for the location and to possible mimic day/night etc. It just needs a piece of curtain made to fit across the top to cut down on ambient light onto the scene, this will be with velcro to make it easily removable. Am really pleased with it. Best wishes Simon 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joppyuk1 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Looking good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 I have been tree making today - Wire skeletons then sprayed ready for the foliage to be added over the next few days, pleased so far but am aware that I will need loads more of these for the layout. Best wishes Simon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 Added foliage last night, too late to photograph but have done now. Off to the Weston Show so may get the other one covered later. Best wishes Simon 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY NORWOOD Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 They are looking fantastic Simon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG 7305 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Do you have a calendar of events you will be showing Hobbiton End at this year? I would love to come and see it in the flesh. Best regards Julian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 Show booked so far - Saturday 20th February Narrow Gauge South West Show at Shepton Mallet 5-6th March Romsey Saturday 11th June Plymouth Saturday 18th June Gloucester Saturday 30th July Bridport With a couple of other possibilities in the pipeline. Best wishes Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 Just had a reminder that we are also booked into the Yate show on Saturday 13th February!! Best wishes Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 Lots to do today - I have 8 tree skeletons made up and coated with bark goo ready for painting and foliage Here are a few of them - I have now sprayed the latest loco body, another rebuild of the Dapol pug kit built to run on a Grafar class 04 shunter chassis. this needs finishing with details - handrails/driver/coal etc. Oh yeah and I have been playing around with the possibility of another large scale layout with the construction of this building - The starting point, a Christmas pressie with a bottle of beer and a glass in it!) I used a section of blue insulation board to cut and carve a suitable stone base for the tower, this material carves and takes paint really well. With the first few details added and the windows and doors cut out, you may also be able to see the top and a floor through the door onto the balcony. This is the internal floor behind the balcony More piccies to follow later Best wishes Simon 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 I have to be very careful how I say this incase somebody mis understands me - I have been drilling a hold into a rabbits bum! Yes it is true, there is now a hole right up the rabbits bum that I then glue a rod into!! not sounding any better is it!! Seriously, I have fitted a rabbit onto a rod to me mounted to a servo so that on the flick of the control unit,it will pop out of its hole under the rock stack at the front of the layout - There is a hole through the scene under the rocks behind the rear rabbit here. Best wishes Simon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joppyuk1 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I thought, for a moment, that the Pug was supposed to be one of those American style mail boxes , and wondered where it was going on the layout! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 Tis an old paint brush with a big blob of blutac on the end to hold the body for spraying. There are littler mail boxes outside each hobbit hols though, visible in some of the piccies earlier on I think. best wishes Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 A couple of updates for now - Trees first, I have now completed a batch of 8 different tree skeletons and sprayed them this evening with a, hopefully, differerent shade on each ready for some dry brushing etc when they are dry as well as some creepers etc maybe on a couple before foliage work starts. I have also been working on the rabbit All quiet on the slopes, and a little blurry! Wahay, we have company! Just need to adjust the rabbit pole as he/she is a little sideways and floating off the ground at the moment but i am really pleased with the distance out and that when in the back position, it is right out of sight! Best wishes Simon 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 I just love this. Just love it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY NORWOOD Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Love the idea with the rabbet moving. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 Cheers Ray, the rabbit was really easy, just a servo mounted under the board with the rod through the right hole and a rabbit on the other end through the scenery. Best wishes Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Cheers Ray, the rabbit was really easy, just a servo mounted under the board with the rod through the right hole and a rabbit on the other end through the scenery. Best wishes Simon Own up, Simon - you were looking at David Malton's layout at Thorncombe last November, were you not? Looks good though! Best wishes to all & belated HNY. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 Did he have something similar on there? Not seen a rabbit popping out of a hole before but am aware it has been done a few times before. Am now wondering what else can be made to move without going too far into the realms of silly/gimmick. SImon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 From memory it's a rat in the riverbank rather than a rabbit, but same principle. He's also got a photographer who turns & lifts the camera to his eye to photograph a passing train, again servo-driven. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 If you've got access to ancient Railway Modellers, Jack Dugdale was doing similar things in the 60s.Ortogo gimmicks, No. 1, The ganger, October 1967, p299Ortogo gimmicks, No. 2, The canal, November 1967, p334Ortogo gimmicks, No. 3, The funicular, December 1967, p365Ortogo gimmicks, No. 4, Rabbits, January 1968, p13Ortogo gimmicks, No. 5, Shunting Yard, February 1968, p46 Found here from a quick bit of Googling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymw Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Hi Simon, I think you should make a little guy take the apples out of the basket, and stick 'em back on the tree. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 (edited) If you can create a lot of servo 'flutter' you could do two sheep making more sheep - or are we trying to stay family friendly? Could do a hog roast with a small figure of pepper pig rotating above the fire... Think my daughter has a pepper pig figure she could donate Edited January 22, 2016 by Black Sheep Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 If I put Peppa Pig on a hog roast I would get a roasting from my niece, she loves her! Great idea about the spit roast though! Best wishes Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Well, what a cruddy little evening, started to make the next tree and then ran out of mid green foliage three quarters the way through and then got a phone call from my sister to tell me her little dog has died after an operation on his spine - am really gutted, he was the softest cuddliest little creature I have ever met. Best wishes Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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