RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted February 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2023 (edited) Hi Adrian. Looking good. Those oast houses sure bring back memories of pleasant youthful days riding up to Ramsgate, Chatham and Margate. Hardly ever took the motorways even though it was normally quicker. (Although when you know your way and have a tuned engine things zip past, I could do Brighton - Dover in about 85 minutes via Lewes, Heathfield, Burwash and Hawkhurst😉) Keep up the good modeling, it's nice to be able to catch up! Regards Shaun. PS: I spotted your Ewer St. buildings on YouTube a few weeks back. Edited February 23, 2023 by Sasquatch Postscript. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted February 23, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2023 16 hours ago, Sasquatch said: Hi Adrian. Looking good. Those oast houses sure bring back memories of pleasant youthful days riding up to Ramsgate, Chatham and Margate. Hardly ever took the motorways even though it was normally quicker. (Although when you know your way and have a tuned engine things zip past, I could do Brighton - Dover in about 85 minutes via Lewes, Heathfield, Burwash and Hawkhurst😉) Keep up the good modeling, it's nice to be able to catch up! Regards Shaun. PS: I spotted your Ewer St. buildings on YouTube a few weeks back. Hi Shaun, it certainly was a better time for getting around, you could get from A to B without falling down bloody great pot holes, road works with temporary traffic lights with no one doing any work for months on end, and you could get parked when you got there. I sometimes have a drive around the places I remember from years back, all from the comfort of the settee and Google street view. What I have noticed is the amount of building that has gone on in what used to be orchards, hop fields and what was considered Green Belt land, all the old Oast Houses have been converted into housing, and proper pubs are vanishing in front of your eyes. I will be posting my build of the Oast House for Weald once I have knocked down the modern housing estate and Tesco express that is now occupying the site. All the best to you Adrian. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted February 23, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2023 Right that didn't take long to knock the Tesco Express down as well as the new houses built on the farm land, now it's back to how it was sixty plus years ago, this site will have a barn with twin oasts and a pub will be reinstated down the road opposite the goods yard for the locals and hop pickers , this will be a Maidstone brewery (style and winch) serving proper beer, people asking for cocktails, latte, or crisps that are any other flavour than plain with a screw of salt in blue paper will not be tolerated, ladies will be welcomed in the lounge bar. All the best Adrian. 19 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted February 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2023 And hopefully cider will only be defined by dry or (if you must) sweet and anything made from pears won’t be cider but Perry. :-) Paul. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Now that is my kind of "progress"! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, 5BarVT said: And hopefully cider will only be defined by dry or (if you must) sweet and anything made from pears won’t be cider but Perry. :-) Paul. It may be considered a heresy but I have had several entertaining nights when that Magners pear cider first came out. Definitely more like a Perry or fortified wine, goes down like pop. Real Cider is made from apples as any fule kno. Edited February 23, 2023 by MrWolf Missed a bit! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted February 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2023 1 hour ago, westerhamstation said: Right that didn't take long to knock the Tesco Express down as well as the new houses built on the farm land, now it's back to how it was sixty plus years ago, this site will have a barn with twin oasts and a pub will be reinstated down the road opposite the goods yard for the locals and hop pickers , this will be a Maidstone brewery (style and winch) serving proper beer, people asking for cocktails, latte, or crisps that are any other flavour than plain with a screw of salt in blue paper will not be tolerated, ladies will be welcomed in the lounge bar. All the best Adrian. Presumably it will be "a glass of white wine for the ladies"? 😏 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted February 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2023 Perhaps a Babycham? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted February 24, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) Whilst clearing the site for the oast house the local farmer popped round to check on progress, and said he had a view across the Weald that he would plant for me, if he could have free beer in the pub for a week if and when it was built, I asked him when he could plant it and he said give me half an hour and some Pritt Stik and the job will be done. Here is the result. Edited March 1, 2023 by westerhamstation 28 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishplate Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 19 hours ago, westerhamstation said: Here is the result. Spot the join between 2D and 3D. That looks F.A.B (sticking to 1960's references) 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishplate Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 On 23/02/2023 at 19:27, 5BarVT said: cider will only be defined by dry or (if you must) sweet Err, yes, I must. With a packet of pork scratchings please . . . 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted February 25, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 25, 2023 (edited) Hi ya Adrian. You are making me quite homesick my friend. Good job too! I do remember those kind of pubs. As a scooter club we joined the Sussex MAG (motorcycle action group) and got roped into the pool and darts tournament. Our pub was The Crab in Shoreham-by-Sea, a rather basic pub run by a true gentleman of a landlord even when the Hells Angels showed up to give us a good thrashing. (at pool and darts of course). I also have vague memories of a trip out to a spit and sawdust pub the other side of Robertsbridge to play some big hairy bikers who looked a bit put off because we brought along two female members. To break the ice, Eddy went up to the bar and in a loud posh voice asked for a Babycham. Regards Shaun. Edited February 25, 2023 by Sasquatch Typos. 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 2 hours ago, Sasquatch said: Hi ya Adrian. You are making me quite homesick my friend. Good job too! To break the ice, Eddy went up to the bar and in a load posh voice asked for a Babycham. Regards Shaun. Yup, that a great ice-breaker..... with a possible risk of a few more broken things. Congrats to Eddy, who managed to get the tone right..... Good man. J 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted March 5, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 5, 2023 Time to make a start on the construction of the twin oast house, I have opted to make the square version of the oasts and for the same reasons that this style of oast was later adopted for the real thing, they were easier to build and more efficient in use. For this build I will be using card and plasticard so here goes for the first part. Some of the parts One of the oasts Base of barn and oast bases Roof and oasts tried for position All the best Adrian. 21 7 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted March 8, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2023 Following on from my last post the next bits of construction will be to clad the walls and roofs with plasticard, and to make a louvre opening for ventilation in the barn. the door frames are made from cut down coffee stirrers and the weathboard has had a quick blast of primer. None of the roofs have been fastened down yet, thats why they are a bit gappy and the oast roofs overhang a bit to much. Some pictures of progress so far. All the best Adrian. 19 1 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted March 16, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 16, 2023 Part 3 of the Oast House construction, the stairs up to the upper floor I found in my useful bits box, the handrail is made from coffee stirrers cut down the length. If you are wondering what the strange cardboard structures on top of the Oast are they the supports for what will be the twin cowls. I hope the pictures show the building so far and the trial fit on its future site. All the best Adrian. 22 11 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted March 16, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2023 Nicely modelled, I especially like how you've painted the woodwork. Please excuse a quite possibly dumb question, but it looks to me as if you've used embossed brick sheets for the roofing? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted March 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2023 Lovely job Adrian and very inspiring. That's a very effective paint job, you almost had me believe that was the real thing for a second. I had to scroll back up for a closer look!😁 Regards Shaun. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted March 16, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2023 2 hours ago, Graham T said: Nicely modelled, I especially like how you've painted the woodwork. Please excuse a quite possibly dumb question, but it looks to me as if you've used embossed brick sheets for the roofing? Hi Graham, you are quite correct, the reason being that I cannot find anything that looks like Kent peg tiles in any material be it paper or plasticard (a royal charter of 1477 decreeing that plain tiles should be standardised to ten and a half inches by six and one quarter inches, Kent peg tiles typically remained at ten inches by six inches). this in oo gauge is quite a small tile if you take into account the overlap on the tiles, so i thought that when painted and weathered which I haven't done yet it might not be so noticable, we shall see. Thank you for asking, and it's not a dumb question at all. All the best Adrian. 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted March 30, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2023 What are those houses with the white pointy things on the roof, a question asked by countless adults and children as they travel through the Kent country side, well they are Cowls used for venting the hot air from the kilns used to dry the hops. I have posted a link to a company that I have no connection with whatsoever, but their site is very informative with some good illustrations and photos of the construction of oast cowl construction. https://dudeandarnette.co.uk/what-is-an-oast-cowl/ Construction of the cowls is from thin card, when I first looked at the construction of these, nothing was what it seemed, they are indeed conical, but the angle of the cone is not quite the same as the roof that they sit on, the cowl only cover about two thirds of the top of the kiln. the internet provided a program for inputting the height the base and the top dimensions of a cone it also allowed me to divide it into segments which would replicate the slats. Before I printed the image off I layed a 5% layer of black over the design to knock the starkness of the white back. About a third of the slats have been cut off, a slight angle had to be cut on each side of the base from the centre point of the cowl to give the required slope of the cowl. the card was rolled gently around a biro pen that had a taper on the barrel to give me the shape. this was then glued to the former to produce the distinctive cowl shape. Some strips of plasticard were cut for the directional finger and some card caps for the top. And here they are. All the best Adrian. 18 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishplate Posted March 30, 2023 Share Posted March 30, 2023 Hi Adrian. When I saw Westerham, + Weald. White pointy things in my follow list, I knew precisely what you had been up to having grown up in Kent. They look the bees knees* *other animal related compliments are also available 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony Teague Posted March 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2023 30 minutes ago, Fishplate said: They look the bees knees* *other animal related compliments are also available Example attached: 4 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted April 5, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 5, 2023 (edited) Hop Pickers Wanted, but not until September, when the hops will be ready for picking. think the next building might be the pub as I owe the farmer a few pints for giving me the land to build the Oast House. Some pictures of the finished Oast House. All the best Adrian. Edited April 6, 2023 by westerhamstation 23 21 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted April 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2023 Just fab Adrian! Having been brought up in south London in the '50's and '60's (not far from Westerham) this truly evokes memories of Kent past. Great modelling. Tony 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 5, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 5, 2023 3 hours ago, westerhamstation said: Hop Pickers Wanted, but not until September, when the hops will be ready for picking. think the next building might be the pub as I owe the farmer a few pints for giving me the land to build the Oat House. http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-project/Peacock-Iden-Green.html Our local until we moved to France - taking the landlady and her hubby with us! 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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