RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted September 23, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2014 Blooming Brilliant! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweven Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Agree, agree, and as usual your painting really brings it to life.Wonderful use of colour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Strathwood Posted September 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 24, 2014 That's looking the bee's knees Adrian. Nestor Don't start him off about recycling dead bees from the garden at this time of year to conjure something else up with. Some of us are still getting our heads around this hut for now. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Like the weathered roofing felt. How did you get that effect? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted September 24, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 24, 2014 Like the weathered roofing felt. How did you get that effect? Hi, its just cheepo printing paper stuck down onto card with PVA, and when dry torn around the edge of the card, then painted with dark grey enamel that is more white spirit than paint, really it's just coloured white spirit . Hope this helps all the best Adrian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Thanks, Adam. It was more the green algae/lichen - what's that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted September 24, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 24, 2014 Thanks, Adam. It was more the green algae/lichen - what's that? Hi, It's just a touch of green enamel thinned like the grey, and washed in while it's all wet. All the best Adam (aka Adrian). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted September 24, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 24, 2014 Have you brought any corrugated iron lately? £32 pounds per sheet, I am not paying that. I need two sheets for the platelayers hut, as there is a big hole in the sleepers and the window frame has rotted and the glass has dropped out. So as I am not as rich as Bill Gates, it's time to make some. Out to the freezer and get a Cornetto (other frozen goodies are available) unwrap your Cornetto and eat, then get a block of wood, superglue some left over bits of piano wire to it, and it let dry. Next take a piece of your Cornetto wrapper and lightly sand the silver surface so that the paint will stick. Lay your bit of wrapper over the wire and rub it firmly all over with your finger. then give it a light spray with some grey primer, and cut to size. Some pictures of the process, sorry I do not have enough Cornetto's to share out. Ps I could have used Plasicard but then it wouldn't have been as much fun. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 My word. it's top-tip-tastic on this thread today! Thanks very much, as I consider my micro layout/plank and wanting it all a bit disreputable this is just the kind of stuff I need... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Hi, It's just a touch of green enamel thinned like the grey, and washed in while it's all wet. All the best Adam (aka Adrian). LOL I'm guessing Adam being in the bible is in the spell checker........I hate that blxxdy spell checker ROFL.....at least for once it is someone else being picked on... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 (edited) Have you brought any corrugated iron lately? £32 pounds per sheet, I am not paying that. I need two sheets for the platelayers hut, as there is a big hole in the sleepers and the window frame has rotted and the glass has dropped out. So as I am not as rich as Bill Gates, it's time to make some. Out to the freezer and get a Cornetto (other frozen goodies are available) unwrap your Cornetto and eat, then get a block of wood, superglue some left over bits of piano wire to it, and it let dry. Next take a piece of your Cornetto wrapper and lightly sand the silver surface so that the paint will stick. Lay your bit of wrapper over the wire and rub it firmly all over with your finger. then give it a light spray with some grey primer, and cut to size. Some pictures of the process, sorry I do not have enough Cornetto's to share out. Ps I could have used Plasicard but then it wouldn't have been as much fun. sheeesh you know this is going to cause a run on cornettos, and for those of us who just want to eat them...choc and nut ice-cream mmmmmmmmm.......where will we be!!!!! All this clever inventiveness is all very well......but cornetto paper!!!!! Your blxxdy genius.... hmmmm that said.....what a sneaky way to get the wife to buy you cornettos...... Edited September 24, 2014 by Jaz 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 LOL I'm guessing Adam being in the bible is in the spell checker........I hate that blxxdy spell checker ROFL.....at least for once it is someone else being picked on... Apologies, Adrian, I had just been distracted by an email from an Adam when I posted... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 sheeesh you know this is going to cause a run on cornettos, and for those of us who just want to eat them...choc and nut ice-cream mmmmmmmmm.......where will we be!!!!! Send me your address and I'll post all the Cornettos which I've unwrapped to get the paper BTW, reminds me of my parents' horror when I mistook Elvis's "It's Now Or Never" for "The Cornetto music" when I was a nipper. My late and rather intellectually superior Uncle used to express similar horror re Elvis and "O Sole Mio"... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Todd Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 £32 pounds per sheet, I am not paying that. I need two sheets That, is a highly paid washerwoman,...................... for living in Westerham.. ............. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted September 25, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2014 Typical, this must be the only platelayers hut in the world to have a wooden bridge gauge tied to the front of it, so it's something else to make from cut down and thinned coffee stirrers (what a suprise) I have also added some bits of additional timber that had been added to the hut over the years to hold the corrugated iron over the window, and around the edge of the roof. Next will be the chimney and the final painting. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Poor thing will look ready to be torn down and replaced..... ...Hey.......there's no guano....surely this old building would have some?That said I just looked at our roof, and theres none....perhaps the rain washes it away......ooh maybe thats why you sometimes see in explicable white lines down buildings...... looking goooooood... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Todd Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Poor thing will look ready to be torn down and replaced..... ...Hey.......there's no guano....surely this old building would have some?That said I just looked at our roof, and theres none....perhaps the rain washes it away......ooh maybe thats why you sometimes see in explicable white lines down buildings...... looking goooooood... Here are 3. for you to sample Once again, Adrian,...............excellent........... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Not for nothing was this known as ..... St Eval Crow-splat church by JulianR 2013, on Flickr That white stuff down the Tower is definitely NOT from the mortar! ............... and it's not as if ...................... ...Hey.......there's no guano....surely this old building would have some?That said I just looked at our roof, and theres none....perhaps the rain washes it away.. ................ Cornwall doesn't have a plentiful supply of the vertical wet stuff ........... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted September 26, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2014 The chimney for the platelayers hut has been made, and just needs painting before finally being fixed in place. It's made from card, clad with plasticard and a bit of tube for the chimney. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold nest Posted September 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2014 (edited) Your ability to knock these things up so quickly is annoyingly impressive. Brilliant work as always Adrian Nestor Edited September 26, 2014 by nest Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JCL Posted September 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 26, 2014 True Nest. Mr Westerhamstation, Your corrugated sheet is brilliant. AND ice cream! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourthsVeil Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Another possibility to make corrugated would be the aluminum foils covering pill's containers – see there… But – as long as you are in good health: better resort to ice cream wrapping I am very much enjoying your thread, so keep up the good work. Armin 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Todd Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 (edited) Your ability to knock these things up so quickly is annoyingly impressive. Brilliant work as always Adrian Nestor I look forward to see picture's of Westerham in next month's BRM, Akin to winning the Lottery,.............................. having heard, you ticked the No Publicity box, I have, a spare room, in a secret location,.............until the publicity dies down.............. You maybe able to settle down and take you mind off thing's..................... By finishing all the minor detail's, that is required on DP,............ after a year or so............... .......... Keep them coming Adrian......... Edited September 29, 2014 by David Todd 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Strathwood Posted September 29, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 29, 2014 Have you brought any corrugated iron lately? £32 pounds per sheet, I am not paying that. I need two sheets for the platelayers hut, as there is a big hole in the sleepers and the window frame has rotted and the glass has dropped out. So as I am not as rich as Bill Gates, it's time to make some. Out to the freezer and get a Cornetto (other frozen goodies are available) unwrap your Cornetto and eat, then get a block of wood, superglue some left over bits of piano wire to it, and it let dry. Next take a piece of your Cornetto wrapper and lightly sand the silver surface so that the paint will stick. Lay your bit of wrapper over the wire and rub it firmly all over with your finger. then give it a light spray with some grey primer, and cut to size. Some pictures of the process, sorry I do not have enough Cornetto's to share out. Ps I could have used Plasicard but then it wouldn't have been as much fun. I have been giving this subject of corruagted iron some further thoughts with the cooler nights of autumn/winter drawing on as I do not fancy the idea of lots of Cornettos in order to gain enough material to do a whole building roof. Therefore we are going this week to invest on one of those ASDA large family meat pies (other pies are available), as the thicker grade large metal foil tray looks like it might be just the answer. Not to mention I do like a nice meat pie with extra gravy for supper! Besides after your post recently I have heard there has been a run on Cornettos from middle aged men all across the country. So I thought I should start another trend in pies... Kevin 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I have been giving this subject of corruagted iron some further thoughts with the cooler nights of autumn/winter drawing on as I do not fancy the idea of lots of Cornettos in order to gain enough material to do a whole building roof. Therefore we are going this week to invest on one of those ASDA large family meat pies (other pies are available), as the thicker grade large metal foil tray looks like it might be just the answer. Not to mention I do like a nice meat pie with extra gravy for supper! Besides after your post recently I have heard there has been a run on Cornettos from middle aged men all across the country. So I thought I should start another trend in pies... Kevin I absolutely love Adrian's thrifty modelling - and the cornettos idea greatly appeals to my sweet tooth (but not to my ever expanding waistline) If I may be so bold, I have another suggestion - The tin foil serving trays you can use for parties etc - you can get them from the pound shop and they are readily embossable: I made this hut using the technique I describe here: http://lnrmodels.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-joy-of-sheds.html Lee 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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