class"66" Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Some very nice modelling here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Module00 Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Yes is excellent ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisis Rail Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 (edited) Possibly - most probably - the best layout on this site if not these shores IMHO - something we all have to aspire to. Ian Edited November 30, 2014 by Crisis Rail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisis Rail Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Here are a few more photos, generally of parts of the layout not covered before. First have a look near the station before moving on to some shots of the steelworks. 1813 departs the Up Goods with a loaded coal. 1813. (SH15-125).jpg The house backs just out of shot on the left in the previous shot. House backs. (SH15-123).jpg The street in front of the houses. Streen scene -b. (SH13-112).jpg A shot of the steelworks from the Blast Furnaces end looking towards the BR Exchange Sidings. Steelworks. (SH13-121).jpg 08951 makes its way out of the steelworks complex past the blast furnaces, with a train of BAA/BBA's. 08951 in Steelworks. (SH18-14).jpg The blast furnaces. Blast furnace. (SH13-126).jpg 08951 enters into the Exchange Sidings. 08951 in steelworks. (SH18-16).jpg To finish off with a couple of loco shots, here's D5382 fresh from the paint shops after weathering by Greg. D5382. (SH13-96).jpg D5382. (SH13-98).jpg One more to join the Eastwell Ironstone fleet. Paul J. Fly tipping at its best - just brilliant, Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Module00 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 fantastic work ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Great pictures of a great layout keep em coming David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernBlue80s Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Lovely My favourite layout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Looking forward to another picture update now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Swindon 123 Posted December 1, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2014 Looking forward to another picture update now Your wish is my command. Included in todays feast are some of Gregs collection of rolling stock, heavily geared to steel traffic, as would be expected on a layout featuring a steelworks. First one of the Class 40 fleet, 352 on a train of Covhops and Prestwins. Close up of 352. Now some of the train. B870855 B870816. B870861. Prestwin B873721. B877387. (Well I thinks that's the number). At the tail end B955055. The above brake van was a familiar sight to Greg and myself as it was one of the few that were re-clad at some point in their lives completely in plywood. It spent the final years of its BR life parked up in the P-way sidings at Sutton Bridge Jcn where we would see it every time we drove past on a train. Back to the locos sees D1007, "Western Talisman" on a train of coils. Finally three locos wait for the off up in the Steelworks exchange sidings. Enjoy. Paul J. 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBAGE Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I know it's about a railway but "the street in front of the houses", incredible. I had to point out the baseboard joint to convince my wife it wasn't real. Can we see it on the exhibition circuit? Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Luv the new stock!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimleygrid Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Superb photos of a superb layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1047 Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 High Guys Thanks for the good comments, I must thank Paul for the time and effort he has put in to take the pics and post on RMWEB, my camera and skills are not quite up to it unfortunately. The layout has a continuous run underneath to ten through sidings so makes it to complicated to exhibit so with this in mind it was built into a purpose built room. It is still work in progress so as long as I don't get distracted with the latest must have, it may be finished one day!!.Paul has built a couple of superb signals which is the next project to make working, some pics will appear shortly to show his handy work . It is good to charge up my inspiration by browsing through this website and gazing over some fantastic skills that can be seen on here BCB being just one of many favourites.It is also good to get positive critique as that can then be used to improve on bits that are lacking, D1007 as example, I spent many a long hour studying photos to get the weathering and battle scars right only to miss the pale grey window surrounds as seen in the pic,fortunately an eagle eyed RMwebber spotted this seen earlier in this thread I have since put right my omission. cheers Greg 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne 37901 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 (edited) Excellent stuff. Any chance of an explanation of the weathering on the BAA/BBA decks? The heat crazed area where the hot coils have been loaded looks just the right of colour looking at photos. I tried to replicate the effect on my rake but I wasn't please d with the outcome and decided to run the train loaded. Kind regards Edited December 5, 2014 by Wayne 37901 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1047 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 (edited) Excellent stuff. Any chance of an explanation of the weathering on the BAA/BBA decks? The heat crazed area where the hot coils have been loaded longkis just the right of colour looking at photos. I tried to replicate the effect on my rake but I wasn't please d with the outcome and decided to run the train loaded. Kind regards High Wayne I weathered the BAA / BBAs using my airbrush and a good pic of the chosen subject.The flooring usually has various white markings to aid loading so I painted them first . To replicate the heat damage I cut out small round stencils and over-sprayed Railmatch light rust after the wagon had had a general brake dust dusting .To finish off I used thin plastic strip painted a rust colour to represent bent loading stanchions and glued them in place to hold the coils and are left in place when running empty as per prototype practice.Paul has taken a couple of pics and will post them shortly. Hope this helps cheers Greg . Edited December 5, 2014 by D1047 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Swindon 123 Posted December 5, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2014 Well being as Greg has laid the foundations here are some more photos, with a bit of emphasis on steel wagons with a drag act thrown in. First a couple of shots of the BAA/BBA Greg has eluded to. First BAB 900040. And BBA 910245. Now some earlier steel stuff. First a couple of KXO coil carriers converted from single bolsters. (I think the doner wagons where old triang models with new 10ft chassis. Hopefully Greg will be able to confirm). And now some ingot mould/SMO conversions from iron ore tipplers. With a scratch built 25T ore hopper thrown in as well. Now for some locos. The first shot sees D4118 trip some tanks through the station. And then heads back to whence it came. D4118 used to be a regular pilot at Hereford and Greg remembers it from his early spotting days. Hence the model. Now for the drag act as a diverted WCML service hauled by E3173 is itself hauled over the non electrified section by 50017. Next a pair of 25's , D5233 + 7515 head through on a steel train. Finally a view outside the station with a (very) lost bus driver + bus if the destination blind is anything to go by. Till the next batch, enjoy. Paul J. 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobster Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Superb Cheers, Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topsy11 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 What a superb looking layout - the scenery around the layout is breath taking! I'm 99% sure my house is built on the grounds of where the old steel works was that you've modelled on this layout!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 This has to be one of my favourite models. If I might make one little criticism though; from what I remember of working at BSC Landore in the early 1970s, those ingot moulds would be a bit heavy for a tippler. Ones that size, generally for Plate Mills such as Ravenscraig or Llanwern, would weigh perhaps 30 tonnes, and so would be delivered on ex-Warflats or Armour wagons. There were some even bigger ones, which had to be sent on Flat WLL wagons; also ex-WD, but fitted with three-axle bogies. These were specific to Ravenscraig, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I think that Brian is probably correct. Is that one of the Rix Models ingot moulds in the ex-tippler? When I completed the ingot moulds for the BCB project, I calculated that the RT Models large ingot mould represented a prototype mould of around 14 tons weight, the Rix moulds are considerably larger. Nice models of slabbing ingot moulds. I'm away from home for a week and will measure a Rix Mould up when I get back, should anybody else want to do the calculation, haematite cast iron is around 490lbs per cubic foot. Of course, 99.99% of the population would neither know or care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2014 Of course, 99.99% of the population would neither know or care But we do now! Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamiel Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Yet more stunning pictures. This really is one of my favourite layouts too. I think it would might come under the category of what a friend of mine called 'train porn'.Thank you again for sharing.Jamie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I think that Brian is probably correct. Is that one of the Rix Models ingot moulds in the ex-tippler? When I completed the ingot moulds for the BCB project, I calculated that the RT Models large ingot mould represented a prototype mould of around 14 tons weight, the Rix moulds are considerably larger. Nice models of slabbing ingot moulds. I'm away from home for a week and will measure a Rix Mould up when I get back, should anybody else want to do the calculation, haematite cast iron is around 490lbs per cubic foot. Of course, 99.99% of the population would neither know or care I think you could probably add another two nines after the decimal point, Arthur... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Swindon 123 Posted December 7, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2014 Nice to get some interesting feedback on some of the things modeled. You get to know things that may never come to light otherwise. I note the comments on the ingot moulds. Although the tipplers where rated at 27 tons, the ingot mould does look a bit big in them. Photos of tipplers carrying ingot moulds seem rare. Carrying on with the steel carrier theme, here are some shots of the slab coil and strip coil wagons Greg has modeled. The slab coil is an Appleby Engineering kit I believe and the strip coils are scratch built bodies utilizing parts from another Appleby kit. I'm sure Greg will be able to clarify that statement. D5233 + 7515 run through the middle road at Shenston Rd. Next a couple of shots of the Slab/coil B949556. And now 3 shots of the Strip-coil wagons. B949007 + B949035. Now a couple of shots from parts of Shenston Rd I haven't looked at before. First a shot on the curve at the Wolverhampton end, approaching he station, showing class 46, D163, descending the branch from the steelworks. The large bracket signal has only recently been built, along with another at the Birmingham end which can just be seen end on in the next photo. At the moment both are awaiting lamps and lenses in the arms. Now at the other end of the layout the Midland BRS depot that hides the curve leading to the tunnel under the steelworks. Now class 08, 3748, is seen from the brewery side of the tracks approaching the Birmingham end of the station. The houses in the background are the ones featured in the street photo in post 52. To finish off a couple of locos. First D4 takes a coal train found the back of Shenston Rd with a coal train. And lastly 1674 exits the Down Goods with a train of Chlorine tanks. These tanks will feature in the next post. (When I've resized the photos to post) That is all for today. Till the next post enjoy. Paul J. 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 I can't say I've ever seen a photo of an ingot mould loaded in a Tippler either; you'd have to be standing on a footbridge, or other high vantage point, to get one, I suppose. The moulds carried in them would have been the sort used in Long-Section (girder, rail or bar) mills, as these gave an ingot size of about 7 tonnes. Mould size varied according to the product being produced from the finished ingot, and plants would change this according to customer specifications. In the drawing office where my father worked, one draughtsman would spend most of his time calculating the mould sizes required for new moulds, then checking if any drawings or patterns already existed. That Slab-Coil wagon's a lovely piece of kit; I used to see them at Margam. I hadn't realised JT had done a kit of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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