Ruston Posted February 28, 2014 Author Share Posted February 28, 2014 The logo is a waterslide transfer so I suppose I could do that if I first mounted it onto a backing but, as it happens, I've applied it to the building anyway. It looked too good to not use it and, IMHO, it looks better applied straight on the corugated iron. If I do backdate the layout I'll cover it up. In addition to the transfer I've made other lettering from Slaters plastic letters. One set, that reads "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION" is removable, whilst "RIVER DON WORKS" is permanently glued on. Pics tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Skytrex low-relief building arrived earlier in the week and it's now painted, lettered and ready to plant. The real Gregory Fenton's Beehive Works is down the road from the Eye-Witness works that Mickey posted earlier in this page. And... waste not, want not - the scratchbuilt structure that I wasn't happy with (you can see it in original form in post #93 on the previous page) and that has been replaced by the one pictured above has been cut down by a storey and looks better for it. It will now sit partly over the river, mounted on some hefty old ironwork. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 1, 2014 Author Share Posted March 1, 2014 Signage. And here's the ingot painted. I'm going to repaint it using Arthur and Debs technique. It's sat on a short inernal use inly bogie wagon that I've based on a wagon at Tennets Whifflet foundry and a BR Dia. 2/001 40-ton armour plate truck. I've used the chain fastenings style from the Tennents wagons and the dimesions of the BR wagon but the Tennents wagons appear to have a shorter distance from the bogie centre to the headstock so the next one I build will be altered. Of course I've given it a steel deck because BR's wooden planked deck would instantly go up n flames with a hot ingot upon it. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 That building on the girders over the water reminds me of another Sheffield building just like that, passed by thousands of people every day without a second glance. I am referring to the old brewery besides lady's bridge in the wicker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 I really like the realism of your work with the corrugated sheeting on the River Don Works building. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 This micro is getting better and better. I'm highly tempted to mimic it myself in some form or another. If you don't mind, of course? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 16, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 16, 2014 Go ahead. Not that I could stop you anyway. I don't think anyone's patented a model railway yet. Just because I haven't posted anything recently doesn't mean I haven't done anything. I've been painting some figures and weathering a few road vehicles. Ballasting is underway and almost done too. A few pics... Overall view. The Sentinel with a BR Dia. 2/001 40-ton armour plate wagon. Who says my layouts never have greenery? A selection of period vehicles - Ford Cortina Mk3 XL, Vauxhall HB Viva, Bedford HA van, Austin A35 and I'm not at all sure what the other one is. I bought it second hand without a box and I don't recognise the type. Lorries - LAD-cabbed Leyland and a Scammel Highwayman. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Renault Dauphine, I believe. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 Thanks, Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Renault Dauphine, I believe. I was going to suggest a Simca but you're probably correct! Summat French anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I was going to suggest a Simca but you're probably correct! Summat French anyway. The Simca was a but more 'boxy', I believe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Alex TM Posted March 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18, 2014 Hi Dave, et al, I continue to be ever more impressed with this layout. Some of the more recent pics remind me of part of the RB Tennent works in Whifflet where there was a very tight run-round/headshunt right next to a public road. My wife was curious as to why I might be interested in modelling something industrial so I showed her this thread. As a country/town girl she is not familiar with heavy industry but she now understands why some of us would seek to model it. Another convert! Regards, Alex. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) This link goes to a you tube video of Doorman Long 14, a 4w Sentinel as per the Hornby one, just right for your steelworks! and this one being delivered to Skiningrove on hire but which one I don't know! http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6796329316_bf62589bb5_z.jpg Mark Saunders Edited March 19, 2014 by Mark Saunders 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) This link goes to a you tube video of Doorman Long 14, a 4w Sentinel as per the Hornby one, just right for your steelworks! Mark Saunders If you`d modelled one with that lovely ex-works (yet working) livery; there`d have been howls of protest about it being "too clean" and "non-prototypical" Edited March 19, 2014 by Debs. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 Shame that Hornby don't do a green one in non-weathered condition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 19, 2014 Author Share Posted March 19, 2014 Are you going to build their signature wagon? ESC River Don 300t Ingot Carrier.JPG Mark Saunders That thing is seriously impressive but would be far too long for this little layout. It wouldn't fit in the headshunt for one thing. It does however provide the inspiration for this work in progress: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
12CSVT Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 This link goes to a you tube video of Doorman Long 14, a 4w Sentinel as per the Hornby one, just right for your steelworks! and this one being delivered to Skiningrove on hire but which one I don't know! http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6796329316_bf62589bb5_z.jpg Mark Saunders Here is a photo of the one in the link at Hartlepool. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Alex TM Posted March 21, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 21, 2014 Hi folks, Great piece of film. Quick question: at the start of the footage the loco comes under some form of 'gantry' with what looks to be a signal, yet it looks to be a bit over-engineered if that's what it is. Can anyone tell me what it's for? Thanks. Nice to see an 'ex-works' working loco for real. Regards, Alex. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 (edited) Alex, I suspect that it is a signal gantry. It doesn't appear to be a self supporting pipe bridge, there are no pipes approaching it at ground level, but there are ground brackets supporting it. Dorman Long did use colour light signalling at various points at their sprawling, and railway intensive, Teesside works. That video was taken at the, then new, Lackenby steel plant and they may have used tube for their posts and gantries. To the right another post appears which again seems to have a signal head on it. I'll see if I can find any other photos that might help. Edit; see the tenth photo down I this posting; http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/28937-steel-making-on-teeside/?p=385328 It shows similar signal heads at Dorman Longs Clay Lane blast furnaces albeit, mounted on lattice gantries Edited March 21, 2014 by Arthur Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Alex TM Posted March 27, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2014 Hi Arthur, Many thanks for that. Regards, Alex. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 The finished ingot wagon, complete with load. Works signage at the entry. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Any update on this wonderful little layout? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 He's gone and got distracted playing with plastic aircraft I'm sure he'll be back soon... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 What? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Any update on this wonderful little layout? Er.. Nope. I haven't done anything with it since my last post. I've not been on here for weeks either. Sporadic interweb connection, computer problems, work, blah blah blah... The snail is correct, I have become distracted modelling WW1 aeroplanes but I'll get back to this at some point. The biggest turn-off is that more woodwork is required to make the fiddle area and my stocks of arsedness are too low to attempt hacking lumps of wood about at the moment. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Hi Dave, Good to hear that you're still with us! No doubt you'll return to River Don Works when you're refreshed and ready. How about a, strictly off topic, pic or two of your aeroplanes? Sounds interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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