RMweb Premium Neal Ball Posted December 14, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 14, 2014 Great to see progress Richard, thanks for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard w Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Continuing with the weathering theme I've been working on finishing my rake of SSA scrap wagons. First job was to weather them, wheels painted, wash of black, rust spots added and some slight airbrushing on the underframe. Then I added a false load made from foam. Now for the boring bit. I wanted to replicate loads of cubed scrap. This was achieved by cutting up kitchen foil, putting it into a mold and compressing it with a vice to form a cube. This took many hours and was done over a period of 3 months. Weathering was done with a small amount of weathering powder and a tea spoon of water poured into the container. Then the container was shaken for 5 minutes to evenly weather each cube. Then some more foil was added and painted to give a look of depth to the finished load. Finally the cubes were added. The train is now complete and i'm very happy with the effects. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel.Richardson Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Excellent work as always, I'm planning to do the same for my scrapyard, as there is a bailer so will need lots of cubes. I am not looking forward to doing them. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your scrapyard in the future 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rs4 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 "Well impressed" with those bales. Lovely job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben pez Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 As always very impressive work there richard! Your youtube vidoes must be the most helpfull and well presented films there is because you dont waffle on about nothing like some do,you make them easy to understand and very informative. I going to copy your method of building hillside scenery using newspaper and the plaster bandage,that ive already bought. Keep up the good work All the best Ben Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybridangel77 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I will be dropping off my scrap wagons over the weekend richard...ok mate...lol. Looking good as always. Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d winpenny Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Those scrap wagons look superb David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Nice work Richard... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOE544R Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Brilliant layout - love watching your videos. Quick question though, with your track weathering how do the trains still work even with the railhead painted? Most people have to wipe the rail head clean. Many thanks and keep up the good work! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
js1975 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Excellent efforts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard w Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Brilliant layout - love watching your videos. Quick question though, with your track weathering how do the trains still work even with the railhead painted? Most people have to wipe the rail head clean. Many thanks and keep up the good work! Once the paint has dried I rub off the paint from the railhead with a track rubber. The lighting in the loft isn't great so the rails often look like they are painted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D9JEF Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Just spent the last hour reading through this thread and a few videos. Great layout and lots of great ideas. I am particularly impressed with your scrap loads. I went the Ten Commandments route for mine but I think I will add a couple like you have for variety. Thanks for sharing Jeff 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozstlouis Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Have burnt an entire afternoon watching your Utoob vids. Excellent. How big physically is your layout? I guess if the helix is 4' square (i think thats what you said) then am guessing its about 16' down the longest side? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Looking forward to more in 2015 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
briantwigley Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Hi Richard As many on here I have been following you for a few years on youtube and really love the layout. Look forward to more photos Ryan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCoppage Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Richard, I have been following your YouTube postings for some time. I especially appreciate your fearlessness to tear out something that is not right and re-install the correct item like you recently did with the switch/turnout. You have given me the courage to start my own layout. You have inspired me. Miike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
js1975 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 I see there is a 2015 update - well first of 2015 anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard w Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 Thanks for all the feedback guys, it really is appreciated. I've been meaning to post some photos of the new stuff for a while. I'm currently very busy filming and editing the signaling tutorial video which should be done by the weekend. Should have some pictures by the end of this week. Cheers 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaunthesheep277 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 I've just nicely watched the signaling tutorial video one word... Impressive I mean wow all that hard work is worth it in the end and it is so simple train passes return to red Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard w Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 I've finished filming the signalling video and got the first gantry installed. Its needs more painting, but I'm amazed at how much it lifts the surrounding area. Looks much more interesting than before. The video tutorial can be found here. It is quite long so I will be doing a thread on here which covers all the details. Cheers 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdw7300 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Richard, thank you for pulling together the tutorial. We all have limited time so to divert some of your good modelling time to film and edit the tutorial is appreciated! I got about half way through before SWIMBO dropped a few hints about the housework...... Will watch the rest later. Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammer73 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 just gone through the whole thread what a really nice layout some very good skills on show and it looks very nice. look forward to seeing more this year . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tase Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 (edited) Concur with the comment above from Sam. Very useful tutorial Richard. Gantry looks nice in its final position. Regards Edited January 19, 2015 by Tase Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1BCamden Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Hi Rich, I've been quietly following EJ from the beginning, fantastic, but the signalling video beats the lot, thanks so much for taking the time to share this 'aspect' of your layout with everybody. best regards Stanley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Looking forward to more now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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