david65061 Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 At the Christmas meal of my model railway club One Track Minds we were each given a piece of mdf 8 inches square. This was for our competition which is to build a railway related diorama in 8 inches square. To be judged at our show in Haverhill, suffolk on the 7th of November 2015. Well after lots of beer fuelled jokes about building a model of Kings Cross, I was at a loss at what to model. the 8inch square mdf Even though I have built lots of kits of loco's and even scratch built some, I have never built a layout. So I thought here is my chance to try out some techniques which I could use on a layout. Well that got me thinking if I could not fit kings cross or even most stations into 8 inches square I could fit a Mid Suffolk light Railway station building. On the Mid suffolk Light everything was done on a much smaller scale. Admittedly the station platforms were only 130 feet long which scales to 52cm or 20.5inches which still will not fit. But the main section of some of the smaller stations comes in at under 4 inches which will fit. So I have my prototype. One of the smaller style stations on the mid Suffolk such as Horham or Worlingworth. As some of you may know the stations on the Mid Suffolk were made from corrugated iron. The best way to represent this is with Wills plastic sheets for corrugated iron. So a trip to model junction in Bury St. Edmunds was needed to obtain a pack. Wills corrugatd iron sheets. So with the raw material purchased I set to work using the sketch drawings in the back of Peter Paye's fantastic book on the Middy as a basis to draw myself a sort of scale drawing of the station building. The basic sides were cut out. the back Plasticard was used to build a window frame in the front and a door way in one of the sides. I had never realised how complicated a window frame could be until I started to work out how I could model it. the widow frame in the front. Door in the side. The inside is all wooden planks on the prototype so the inside side of the office needed to be made from scribed plasticard. The inside of the ends and back were also scribed to represent planks. scribing the back. the end with planks scribed in The inside of each piece was chamferd to create the illusion of thin sheets of steel at the joins and along the bottom of the roof. trying to avoid chamfering the edge of the dinning room table. Once the sides were complete,building the station commenced. things start to go together. the back of the roof goes on. followed by the front I have a part completed connoisseur models kit of a j65 which has lost its chassis and some of the castings over the years and gained a scratch built chassis. So this will be completed to provide a loco for the diorama. the state of play at present. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted March 21, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 21, 2015 I do like this, the MSLR is a good subject, little modeled. I make 4*4=16" by the way! Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Very nice work - and a good size for a diorama - has got me thinking... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david65061 Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 I spent another afternoon working on the station building and made considerable progress. The valance is cut out then planks were scribed. The pattern at the bottom was made by first drilling a row of holes, which were then extended to the edge before the edges were cut at an angle. the completed valences. The completed canopy before it is fitted. The station is starting to look at the part. . Adding the barge boards really brings the character out. As I have never ballasted some track I thought I should have a practice. So I set up a test piece with 3 different types of ballast to see which is best. This is commercially available ballast though it is for N gauge. (looks the correct size for 4mm though) Great for good quality track but to uniform for the Middy. This is sand from the desert in Abu dabi. Would need painting if it was to be used. This is ash from the log burner. The Mid suffolk was ballasted with ash and I think this captures it fairly well. Nice and fine and not uniform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Try putting the ash through a tea strainer. You'll get a finer grade that way. Don't use it for tea afterwards though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted April 10, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10, 2015 Love it, those Middy buildings are highly "modellable" Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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