Copenhagen Fields

[CF MRC]

Might be a bit quiet here for a while as I am having a bit of a change of size, working on Sir Sagramore

Details in the Model Engineering section of RMWeb. 
 

Tim
 

 

[Ian Morgan]

Plenty of room for the DCC decoder 🙂

[micknich2003]

Tim, when you get back ti it, I look forward to more progress on the Raven Pacific.

[CF MRC]

Don’t worry, it’s not forgotten, but I have too many projects! I found this photo recently which shows it in exactly the condition I’m modelling it. 

I suspect the photo was taken at KX. Quite interesting that the rear 3/4 of the cab appears to have a cover over it, which also is visible in the classic KX picture. 
 

Tim
 

 

[yaxxbarl]

12 hours ago, CF MRC said:

Don’t worry, it’s not forgotten, but I have too many projects! I found this photo recently which shows it in exactly the condition I’m modelling it. 

I suspect the photo was taken at KX. Quite interesting that the rear 3/4 of the cab appears to have a cover over it, which also is visible in the classic KX picture. 
 

Tim
 

 

It almost looks as if it's a nearly stowed tarpaulin to drape onto the tender in inclement weather, perhaps?

[CF MRC]

That’s a good idea, but the photo would almost certainly have been taken during the comparative trials with an A1 out of KX in July 1923. 
 

Tim

Edited January 11 by CF MRC

[bécasse]

Cab ventilator cover removed for some reason?

[Fair Oak Junction]

The Standard Stock on York Road, is that from an available kit or was it made especially for the project?

[CF MRC]

The standard stock was scratch-built 30+ years ago by Stewart Hine and used on the Caledonian Tube part of the layout. It has a modified Tomix tram mechanism in it at present, but will probably get a re-work based on Stewart’s original chassis in the near future. 
 

We will also be making a new train for YR and of course the Revolution ‘38 stock will be a godsend. It will be backdated to the prototype stock and probably run on the Cally section. 
 

Tim

[Fair Oak Junction]

Thank you for that. I look forward to seeing the future stock developments.

[queensquare]

I see CF is on the cover of the latest N gauge society magazine. Is there something you’re not telling us Tim! 😊

 

Jerry

[MarshLane]

17 minutes ago, queensquare said:

I see CF is on the cover of the latest N gauge society magazine. Is there something you’re not telling us Tim! 😊

 

Jerry

 

or is it the N Gauge Society that have seen the light Jerry??  Sorry if that was too provocative :)

 

RIch

 

[CF MRC]

 News to me! Is it decent?

 

Tim

[Jan W]

I like it, pm sent.

 

Jan

[CF MRC]

The excellent picture was clearly taken at Warley with the stealth tube present; since modified to be more visible. It’s a Zeppelin view, but none the worse for that. Can someone say what the caption was?

 

Tim

[Jan W]

The caption was: A view of ‘Copenhagen Fields’ on display at the Warley Show.

No further reference to the photographer.

 

Jan

[bécasse]

4 hours ago, Jan W said:

The caption was: A view of ‘Copenhagen Fields’ on display at the Warley Show.

No further reference to the photographer.

Name of photographer obviously withheld to avoid embarrassment. He (she?) clearly didn't realise that it was 2FS and not N, although the finescale pointwork should have given a vital clue.

[woodenhead]

4 minutes ago, bécasse said:

Name of photographer obviously withheld to avoid embarrassment. He (she?) clearly didn't realise that it was 2FS and not N, although the finescale pointwork should have given a vital clue.

Finescale pointwork is available for N.

 

But you'd imagine the N scale society know the difference, maybe inside it explains why it's put a 2mm FS model on it's front cover.

[nick_bastable]

3 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

Finescale pointwork is available for N.

 

But you'd imagine the N scale society know the difference, maybe inside it explains why it's put a 2mm FS model on it's front cover.

are you sure its not Peco code 80 finescale 😁 I have heard the tale 🤣😂

Edited January 28 by nick_bastable

[CF MRC]

39 minutes ago, bécasse said:

33 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

Finescale pointwork is available for N.

 

But you'd imagine the N scale society know the difference, maybe inside it explains why it's put a 2mm FS model on it's front cover.

It really doesn’t matter what the difference is in the trackwork between 2mm FS and N gauge, it’s the overall ambience of a layout that matters.  However, when Keith Armes made the mainline crossovers from a scaled up prototype track plan, he remarked that they were the longest turnouts he had ever made. They could not work with N gauge standards. 
 

Tim

Edited January 28 by CF MRC

[Long Line]

The ngs mag has a new editor: approached me at Manchester on my demo stand stating he was hoping to move things forwards a bit. Maybe this is a naive first move?

 

Re the ngs knowing the difference, most havn't worked out its 2.06mm not 2 yet so let's not get ahead of ourselves here 🙄

 

Mark

[CF MRC]

York Road now has its ‘modern’ signage and electrical conduits. It will be on display in diorama form at Ally Pally (16-17th March) on The Model Railway Club stand.

The signs were printed (Ben Weiner made the artwork) and the edge mouldings on the name board were built up with paint.

The signs were thinned down at the back by careful scraping with a #15 scalpel blade to make them less bulky.

The conduits were laser cut as etched strips, by John Jesson, sprayed with white primer then given a wash of stone water-based colour.

The station now needs loads of advertising signs, a couple of benches installing, a Nestle chocolate machine and fire buckets with a hose cabinet. 
 

Tim

[CF MRC]

After some careful internet image acquisition & editing, York Road now has a full set of 1920s posters. A pile of fine ballast, bench, fire cabinet and buckets are still needed to replicate the prototype photo.

The images needed quite a bit of cleaning up and brightening before copying & pasting into the PowerPoint file. This software has a useful re-sizing capability and allowed mixing & matching of the posters for variety. The images were loaded onto a dark grey background and then printed at high resolution using an inkjet printer. The original PDF retains much of the resolution of the individual images which are degraded in the photo image.  Commercial posters do not generally include the ‘local’ advertisements which are very characteristic of an area. 

The edges of the poster boards were touched in with a black pen. 

The posters certainly add a splash of colour to the model and help with the atmosphere.  

 

Tim

Edited February 28 by CF MRC

[t-b-g]

That is astonishingly good modelling!

[CF MRC]

As can be seen in this YR photo the bench along the platform has a lady sitting on it. 

The bench was made a few weeks ago from modified Shire Scenes etches. I thought that the lady would best be served by this figure from Modelu

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On arrival I was most impressed with the quality of the printing, especially the magazine. Unfortunately, once all the supports were removed I found that the lady had a rather extensive protuberance below her derrière. 
Trimming this away wrote off the magazine and, I’m afraid, the poor girl’s right arm. Even then she would not fit on the bench that I’d made with her coy Princess Diana posture, and would look more like a child perching on the edge of a wall. Serious surgery was therefore contemplated. Those of a squeamish disposition should look away now. 
 

She was electively fractured just below the knees and placed on a thick sticky tape operating table for distraction therapy. 

As this was judged to be about the correct length, a small amount of light cured adhesive was introduced into the fracture site and polymerised.

 

After checking her against the bench the void was made up with more light curling resin added with a pin in small increments. 

During the same operation, a new light cured prosthetic right arm was made.  After a rapid recovery and following a bit more minor plastic surgery the lady was sprayed dark brown as a base colour and then painted with suitable acrylic wash colours. She is now reading the Daily Sketch, marvelling at the Flying Scotsman’s non-stop run to Edinburgh. Her newspaper was made from cigarette paper and held in place with varnish.

 

The end result is one step closer to reproducing the B&W York Road photograph and, unlike many figures on model railways, she is sitting properly on the bench with her feet daintily touching the ground. 

For all that I think I must be mad to have spent virtually a whole day working on this figure.
 

Tim