Andrew P Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Excellent work on the Viaduct Brian, I also like the War Memorial, I have one on Pen and I feel yours looks dead right about there. Coming on really well mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 Than Excellent work on the Viaduct Brian, I also like the War Memorial, I have one on Pen and I feel yours looks dead right about there. Coming on really well mate. Thanks Andy - you never know, I probably got the idea from your thread so thanks again. Regards, Andy. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 I only had a short time today in the shed so not enough time to do anything further on the viaduct. I did however have a bit of a lark with some cardboard and the glue gun. The result - a mock up of the pub - see below, slowly getting in closer. The engineer in me is telling me that the splayed entrance doors look wrong so I am undecided about keeping that feature. As a person who has enjoyed the odd pint over the years (slight understatement there ) I don't think that so called "Real Ale" as a description existed in the steam/diesel transition era depicted so the Scalescenes signage needs some amendment. It is close to the loco shed so I imagine the "railwaymen" would be frequent users of their eponymous watering hole. I'll have to show a well beaten path between the two . Regards, Brian. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Model Railway Club and Spotters Lounge upstairs maybe? hahhah. :sungum: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Nice work Brian. Don't be put off by the small steps - I figure as long as you are making little bits of progress, eventually it all comes together. And keeps the mojo raised. Cheers Scott 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 Nice work Brian. Don't be put off by the small steps - I figure as long as you are making little bits of progress, eventually it all comes together. And keeps the mojo raised. Cheers Scott Thanks, Scott. No probs with the old mojo and I am quite pleased with progress. The layout's home, the (garden) shed, is just over two years old now and work on this actual layout didn't start for about 6 months after the shed arrived so I'm quite pleased. It is just that I don't have much patience and I find that certain elements of the build test this - best to put certain things to one side (like the viaduct) and get on with something else, of which there is plenty! Having said that, I have this week done some more work on the viaduct and it's not far off being complete now - I'll hopefully post some completion pics soon. Thanks again for your interest. Regards, Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 Yeah! The viaduct structure is now complete. This is the visible side, i.e. that side facing the operating well... ...and this is the blind side which will be not normally visible. Thoughts can now turn to laying the tracks upto, over and beyond the viaduct. This is a reminder of the track plan (the grey area being electrically complete i.e. I can run trains in this area using the section switches and point switches on the control panel). I will probably leave the single track branch for now concentrating on the main line over the completed viaduct to the fiddle yard. Lots of challenges there not least being laying upward sloping trackbeds to and beyond the viaduct and the traversing (albeit only 2 inches either way) fiddle yard. Regards, Brian. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AireValley1962 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Looking like business, Brian. A really superb viaduct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 Looking like business, Brian. A really superb viaduct. Thanks, William. It seems to have taken an age to complete and I'm so glad it's finished at last. Regards, Brian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 One or two bits and pieces have been done today. Firstly, I have taken the first tentative steps towards going completely round the bend . A cardboard template of the curve linking the viaduct back to the completed track has been made utilising full size prints of the AnyRail track plan stuck onto packing case cardboard as shown below. I'll use this to cut the curved plywood main line track base. Also today I have made a couple of retaining wall bases to support the pub thus. These are the same pattern as the rest of the wall alongside the station - see posts # 374 & 380 for further details. Regards, Brian. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Excellent work Brian, some nice forward thinking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 12, 2016 Author Share Posted October 12, 2016 Excellent work Brian, some nice forward thinking. Kind of you to say so, Andy, but sometimes I think I'm making it up as I go along Regards, Brian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 12, 2016 Author Share Posted October 12, 2016 In between a few short showers the sun shone today in Thameside Essex so some "carpentry" (I use the word loosely) was carried out this afternoon. Firstly, the cardboard track bed template was further trimmed back thus. I had a 4 ft x 2 ft piece of plywood to hand so the template was traced around and the track bed cut out with the jigsaw. Various 44 x 18 par softwood was cut to length and used to form supports for the thus formed track bed as shown below... ...and with the viaduct structures slid back into position... ...and pictured from viewpoints progressively further down the shed. I feel I've made more significant progress today than I have for quite a while. More track laying beckons. Regards, Brian. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AireValley1962 Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Where's the Double Like button... :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 19, 2016 Author Share Posted October 19, 2016 OK - I return to a subject dear to my heart - the pub I have been looking for some time at the Scalescenes "Country Pub" kit and at £3.99 I thought I'd invest and see how complex it was instead of scratch building my own pub which would probably be more time consuming. So last week I purchased the download and over the last few days built the kit. Here it is sited behind some freshly built retaining wall sections. The pub was a tight squeeze in its intended position but I think looks ok - pub name and branding yet to be added. The area immediately to the left in the last picture will be the site of a grassy bank which is why the retaining wall looks somewhat incomplete - it will be covered by land form. Regards, Brian. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Mines a DOUBLE Whisky and Orange please Brian, that is a super looking job you've done there mate, and the embankment will just finish that bit off nicely. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 (edited) Nice looking pub, how was it to build? I had heard that it isn't the best model to begin with. Edited October 19, 2016 by thebritfarmer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 Mines a DOUBLE Whisky and Orange please Brian, that is a super looking job you've done there mate, and the embankment will just finish that bit off nicely. Cheers Andy, down the hatch and thanks for your kind remarks. Nice looking pub, how was it to build? I had heard that it isn't the best model to begin with. I've built a few of these kits now and this one, I thought, was one of the quickest to build - there are only 7 A4 sheets to print and only 2.5 sheets need sticking to thick card and 1.5 sheets need sticking to medium card. I print the window frames on self adhesive white paper (flea bay package labels) because I find it the easiest way of sticking the frames on to clear film, I use either report covers or Over Head Projector film. Having said that it still took me about 10 hours or so to build and I have still yet to add signage. I was very pleased with how it looks though. Regards, Brian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tom shaw Posted October 21, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2016 Nice job with the pub Brian. Will it be Vaux or Scottish & Newcastle ? Regards, Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 21, 2016 Author Share Posted October 21, 2016 Nice job with the pub Brian. Will it be Vaux or Scottish & Newcastle ? Regards, Tom ...or even Nimmos, Tom . Thanks for your kind comments. Regards, Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tom shaw Posted October 21, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 21, 2016 Yes of course, Nimmo's from down south (south Durham anyway). Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two_sugars Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 The Stapleton Arms? John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Yes of course, Nimmo's from down south (south Durham anyway). Tom Castle Eden brewery. Could also be Camerons (Hartlepool brewery but lots of pubs throughout Durham and North Yorkshire). The Stapleton Arms? John Not heard of that one - I've been away from the North East for too long. I'll probably opt for the Railwayman's Arms as a pub name and whatever circa 1960 brewery signage I can find on Google images will determine the brewery. Regards, Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 I've added a bit more land form between the pub and the loco shed. This grassy slope comprises of three layers of the 25 mm insulation I lined the garden shed with glued together, cut and surformed to shape (messy job but vacuum cleaner to hand), covered in filler, painted dark umber artists' acrylic and static grassed over pva glue. Result is shown below. This little area needs more detail i.e railway boundary fence, bushes, etc but I'm pleased with how it looks. Regards, Brian. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tom shaw Posted October 25, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2016 Brian, goes really well with the backscene. Possible pub names: The Locomotive The North Eastern The Station Hotel Regards, Tom 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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