C&WR Posted July 12, 2015 Author Share Posted July 12, 2015 Now for the attempts at road surfaces a la Westerham. I made some slashes in the baseboard with a Stanley knife, then painted the surface in Dulux quartz flint emulsion from a a tester pot. This was a bit light in colour, but I thought it would darken up when worked on later. This then had pools of PVA dripped on it when dry, and I smoothed these out with a fingertip before leaving the glue to dry. Then I gave it a top coat of the quartz flint. I had intended to buy another child's paintbox today and dropped into The Works in the nearby railway town. I was resigned to getting some small cakes of colours and ending up being left with all the bright ones that are little use for weathering. Imagine my delight when I found 120ml tubes of Crawford & Black watercolour, so I picked up one each of viridian, burnt umber, burnt sienna & black. I then washed over the surface with these (in reverse order to the list) diluted heavily with water. Didn't do progress shots, but this was the result: In the first pic the section towards the blue back board will be covered in buildings.Not up to Westerham standards, but the final pic pleases me & it will be interesting to see how it looks when properly dry... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 12, 2015 Author Share Posted July 12, 2015 (edited) Apart from some scenics the weekend involved lots of driving trains. As mentioned above I have been absolutely delighted to get repeated circuits out of the Dapol spine wagons which previously were just a nightmare. Ironically they worked best on the inner track which must be R3 at best, and while it is less bumpy than the outer it has a similar number if not more points to negotiate. It takes a bit of skill to drive the train, making sure all the tension locks stay tense. This is also necessary to prevent buffer lock - going too slowly means the buffers get too close together. Anyway, pictures: Sadly every bit of video I shot was out of focus. It's too bad even to splice together for fun, but the depth of field on the camera is waaaay to shallow for the positions I wanted to shoot from & I set up a bit too quickly. Edited July 12, 2015 by C&WR 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 12, 2015 Author Share Posted July 12, 2015 Next the cottages and Dad's 14xx on the layout: Not the final place for the cottages, although a strong contender to be so. I have made a big template of the empty space so I can plan out what is to fit in it. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 12, 2015 Author Share Posted July 12, 2015 And finally a new arrival on the layout. These were commissioned by the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway in a limited edition of 92 from Dapol (the other blue-box company wanted a minimum run of 500) and I'm delighted with it: Just need them to commission a Hutt's Coal one from the other end of The Bunk to complete the set... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted July 13, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 13, 2015 Now for the attempts at road surfaces a la Westerham. I made some slashes in the baseboard with a Stanley knife, then painted the surface in Dulux quartz flint emulsion from a a tester pot. This was a bit light in colour, but I thought it would darken up when worked on later. This then had pools of PVA dripped on it when dry, and I smoothed these out with a fingertip before leaving the glue to dry. Then I gave it a top coat of the quartz flint. I had intended to buy another child's paintbox today and dropped into The Works in the nearby railway town. I was resigned to getting some small cakes of colours and ending up being left with all the bright ones that are little use for weathering. Imagine my delight when I found 120ml tubes of Crawford & Black watercolour, so I picked up one each of viridian, burnt umber, burnt sienna & black. I then washed over the surface with these (in reverse order to the list) diluted heavily with water. Didn't do progress shots, but this was the result: In the first pic the section towards the blue back board will be covered in buildings.Not up to Westerham standards, but the final pic pleases me & it will be interesting to see how it looks when properly dry... Hi, I wondered where my gang of road builders had gone, they have done a great job on your road, just you wait till you get their invoice. All the best Adrian. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 13, 2015 Author Share Posted July 13, 2015 Hi, I wondered where my gang of road builders had gone, they have done a great job on your road, just you wait till you get their invoice. All the best Adrian. Thanks for the tips, Adrian. Revisiting the photos I'm more pleased than I had been, just a pity the sun is reflecting off the shot looking down the station approach towards the bicycle rack. Unfortunately I was i a bit of a rush taking these ones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 (edited) With TLHC & TMSC off in Cornwall for a work trip, and me stuck here working, I was delighted to be able to wangle today off. This involved someratherboring admin like laundry & hoovering out the car,but I made a start on the station for the end of the branch line. Thanks to catering at the Madjeski Stadium for the coffee stirrers Here's what I came up with. The wood will be stained with watercolour: This is just over the length of my autocoach with a bit of space for the locomotive cab. Looking at A Vaughan's Pictorial Guide to Great Western Architecture it also as some similarities to real life. One problem, though, is putting on the ramp. The platform needs to sit 20mm above the baseboard to be vaguely at the right level for coaches. However the Ratio fencing I use would mean a ramp almost as long as the platform itself: I have several options. Build like this and accept; build with more prototypical post-and-wire fencing and make a steeper ramp; fence all the way round and have some kind of staircase arrangement to access the platform; or ground mount it like the picture of Newbury West Fields in Vaughan. I am not keen on the latter as I really want higher platform to help with scenic break issues. As an idea, here is the model on a template of the ground to be filled. The cottages are in the position previously photographed, butted up against where the end of the brick and flint wall ends: I feel another trip to Wallington coming on for a test-fit! Edited July 20, 2015 by C&WR 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 20, 2015 Author Share Posted July 20, 2015 While pondering the ramp issue I thought I'd crack on with making the supports for the platform. This would obviously have been easier if I hadn't glued the cabin in place! The supports for the platform itself are to the GWR design for a halt as seen in Vaughan's book. I'd post a scan but I got in trouble for breach of copyright last time I did so even though the drawings are over 100 years old... The rear section where the cabin sits is conjecture and uses the GWR pattern as a template. Te little bits of masking tape on the cutting mat are my templates for cutting out the standard sections. Pictures: Not quite up there with the Sultan of Styrene, the Emperor of Evergreen (Al!)but I'm happy with that for a night's work. Once painted, weathered, bedded down on the layout & hidden behind the ballast this should look fine. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 21, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2015 Looks pretty damn good to me, mate. Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 And finally a new arrival on the layout. These were commissioned by the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway in a limited edition of 92 from Dapol (the other blue-box company wanted a minimum run of 500) and I'm delighted with it: Just need them to commission a Hutt's Coal one from the other end of The Bunk to complete the set... Glad you liked it, given the amount of "fun" I had commissioning them! :-) 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 22, 2015 Author Share Posted July 22, 2015 Looks pretty damn good to me, mate. Al. Thanks, Al. I gave the supports a coat of Humbrol enamel natural wood last night and built a little staircase from coffee stirrers up the back. These should be dry enough to weather tonight but I foolishly didn't take any pics especially of the stairs which would have been interesting to show in natural state. Glad you liked it, given the amount of "fun" I had commissioning them! :-) I'm glad you did, I'm a sucker for local wagons with my Weedon's one being most relevant as a leading light of the village was from the family! Hope these sell & my idea of a Hutt's one can come to fruition, if you can bear it 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 As promised a couple of pictures with the stairs and once the supports were painted. The latter has been muckied up a bit with some of my darker watercolours: As you can see I've wrapped the cabin in Tamiya tape so I don't sully the clapboard any further! The stairs present a little problem as I was slightly over-enthusiastic with the impact adhesive, so I will need to touch in with enamel: The third tread up was too low leaving too much of a gap between this and the fourth (and to be honest the second is a bit close to the first) so having woken well before I needed today I did a bit of surgery. Perhaps this wasn't 100% necessary as this will be facing the back board with no real viewing angle to spot the error, but I would have known it was there! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 Thought I would do a coupe of test bits last night so I could set to over the weekend on making the railings for the platform. Of course being me I ended up with this rather than just a mock-up: Perhaps not massively prototypical, especially the colours, but I like it & it should be pretty sturdy! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 Bah! The Pt Way Dept has just responded to an email with the pictures saying the fence should really be creosoted. He's right, of course, and I will repaint it but I did like the colour scheme! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 26, 2015 Author Share Posted July 26, 2015 I jump around a bit with models. I know I should finish off the cottages & the branch line platforms (although the latter needs a bit of a test fit in situ) but I have been itching to make a tin tabernacle to go in the village at the end of the branch. Here it is. It only took about 45 minutes to make as the cutting plan was already in my head: Now for an third coat of paint, window frames & a door! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 28, 2015 Author Share Posted July 28, 2015 Nearly there on the tin tabernacle. The sharp eyed will recognise a couple of bits from the Hornby Op Build It set: A couple of bits of detritus need to be brushed off, and I thought I'd mitred (pardon the pun) the window frames better, but then again this is going to be the far side of the railway & in the flesh approximately 3 1/2"wide by 2 1/2" tall so the imperfections are almost invisible... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 TLHC had to work late and had TSC in tow, and I finally managed to get out of the office at something vaguely approaching my contracted time on a holiday weekday. I intended to stretch out on the sofa with the paper, but became restless and reverted to the workbench aka dining table as they were out. I laid out the template for the end of the branch line & stuck some models on. The McKellar model is there to give an idea, rather than as a fixture: Now what is needed is an old-style warehouse. They were out for longer than I suspected, so I got a bit carried away cutting & pasting,but eventually I came up with this. It's mainly held together with Blu-Tack & gravity: Brownie point to anyone who spots the inspiration for the model! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Some very very nice work my mate... cheers neil. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Thanks, Neil! While a railway is rarely complete I really hope to fill gaps on my original one. At least there I have not just a photo plank, but somewhere to run trains in circles & watch them go by. Just about to negotiate some space in new home for a smaller variant. Had been looking at an augmented inglenook, but with the new London Underground S Stock release I may be extending the dream... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Looking forward to more now.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 Just by chance went to inspect some building work going on here. Just by another chance the carpenter was in the process of disposing of a whole load of 12mm ply in various widths and lengths, as well as a very thick, heavy & strong bit of chipboard worktop material. Not sure if the latter would be of any use, but the former could well be falling into my boot before I go home... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2015 Just by chance went to inspect some building work going on here. Just by another chance the carpenter was in the process of disposing of a whole load of 12mm ply in various widths and lengths, as well as a very thick, heavy & strong bit of chipboard worktop material. Not sure if the latter would be of any use, but the former could well be falling into my boot before I go home... Nice, although you may suffer a limp for a bit The mill is great, btw, despite being thrown together it's already got a lot of character. In contrast to the dark satanic ones built by Jason, yours looks more like Arkwright's one at Matlock Bath - all red brick. Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 Just thrown together? Cheers, Al, I may as well give up, I was pleased with this - the windows nearly all line up and everything Anyway, having prepped supper & while waiting for TLHC & TMSC to get in to eat it I threw some more glue, card, texture paper & plastic at the central part to see if it would stick together: Wondering now if I should have built it in random ashlar instead of the brick as it's nagging at me that the quions don't look quite right, and the original inspiration for the person who designed my inspiration was stone. However the architecture at the end of the branch is mainly brick so I'll probably stick with it. The window is some plastic packaging which has a distinct bobbled texture. I painted this with Tamiya Acrylic Dark Iron and then immediately wiped the paint off the raised sections. Cheap, cheerful & says industrial window to me! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 30, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2015 Just thrown together? Cheers, Al, I may as well give up, I was pleased with this - the windows nearly all line up and everything Sorry mate, that wasn't meant to be in any way disparaging, it's just you said "It's mainly held together with Blu-Tack & gravity:" Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) Sorry mate, that wasn't meant to be in any way disparaging, it's just you said "It's mainly held together with Blu-Tack & gravity:" Al. I know that, hence the smilie! If anything you're too polite about my efforts Just annoyed now that working day is going to delay me finishing this off. I'm not that keen on cutting lintels & cills, and really don't like tiling, but I want to see this ready to plant! Edited July 31, 2015 by C&WR 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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