RMweb Gold nest Posted February 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6, 2014 That really is something. Really enjoying watching this progress Nestor 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Izzy Posted February 6, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6, 2014 Running out of things to say. Please take pity and keep feeding my addiction........... Izzy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Talking of grass, I really like you dead pale grass mixed in with the live stuff, I have bought some extra colours to improve my own.And a nice tone too. I also like the 'soil' colour. Nice observation, something that we routinely expect from you. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted February 7, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2014 Time for some security at the goods yard at Brasted Station, I keep a lot of materials at the goods yard things like hairspray, pastel chalks, scalpels, coffee stirrers, tins of paint, and all sorts of other bits and pieces, these are all piled up in a big heap which only i know where things are. Sometimes these don't seem to be where I remember leaving them, so I am assuming that sombody else is moving them. So with that in mind I have reluctantly brought some security gates and fencing to stop this happening when I am not there. I fixed these in place this morning, a big job with no one to help me lift the gates into place.After I had hung them I went inside for a cuppa and when I came back the gates were wide open and grass was growing everywhere. The red wolseley car was back I think it something to do with the ministry of transport, so I hid behind the hedge trying to get a look to see if it was anybody important and took a photo. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted February 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2014 More superb stuff! The fourth picture looks especially real, even despite the unfinished baseboard in the foreground. The blending of the backscene into the foregound is perfect. Judging by the grass, the gates haven't been shut much recently... Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold nest Posted February 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2014 And again wonderful. You really capture the slightly run-down feeling perfectly. Excellent job. Nestor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JCL Posted February 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2014 I love the textures and colours in your road surfaces,. Are they paint with pastels on top? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted February 7, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2014 I love the textures and colours in your road surfaces,. Are they paint with pastels on top? Hi Jason, has the snow melted yet, the road surfaces are a mixture of much thinned down enamel paints, pva glue left to dry and parts of it ripped off with parcel tape which leaves it all a bit random, then overpainted again, and some feathering of the paint round the different colours and a bit of luck. Regards adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JCL Posted February 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2014 Are you busy for the next couple of weeks? Fancy a holiday in the snow? I know this lovely B&B in town.... (Where's the fingers crossed icon?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1020273444 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Very nice layout.....I really liked it!! Good work!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 I like the green fencing....can I ask where you sourced it? You know what they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I love the wear on the roads too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted February 8, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 8, 2014 I like the green fencing....can I ask where you sourced it? You know what they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I love the wear on the roads too. Hi Jaz, the fencing is the Ratio GWR spear top fencing, you can get it in green but I brought the black version and painted it SR green. In places it should be hooped top fencing but that is quite expensive and only available from one supplier, I did very briefly contemplate making my own but common sense kicked in. all the best Adrian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronstrutt Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 The white painted stone sign opposite the platform at Brasted Station was a nice feature of this country station and one that needed to be modelled... Absolute perfection. It makes me wish that when I repaired the sign in the mid-1960s I'd put a border on it but I don't think there were enough stones left at that time. They're presumably scattered in the foundations of the M25 now. Brasted is coming on in leaps and bounds now. Are thoughts beginning to turn to Chevening Halt now? Quite short, hardly a challenge at all really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted February 9, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 9, 2014 Absolute perfection. It makes me wish that when I repaired the sign in the mid-1960s I'd put a border on it but I don't think there were enough stones left at that time. They're presumably scattered in the foundations of the M25 now. Brasted is coming on in leaps and bounds now. Are thoughts beginning to turn to Chevening Halt now? Quite short, hardly a challenge at all really. Hi Ron, I am really pleased that you like the stone brasted sign as you remember the original and also repaired it. funny that you should mention Chevening Halt as i was only thinking about the possibilities of having ago at it when I finish Brasted. I am moving onto the Goods Yard next and am stuck for information about the area by the gates, there is mention of an earth built loading bay? does any one have any idea what that would look like or how it would have been constucted, the area that I am lacking any pictures or information on is within the circle. any help please, all the best Adrian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted February 9, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 9, 2014 A black and white of Brasted Station. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted February 10, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2014 (edited) The Brasted Station Austerity Ballaster with added Toothbrush. Now never one to spend money on fancy gadgets, like see through plastic ballasters, I had a go at making my own version from card and a sawn down toothbrush.( by now you are possibly thinking how tight can this person get ). Anyway here it is on it's first trial, with a bit of track that wasn't fastened down so it moved a bit but it does work, it took a few seconds to ballast that trial bit of track and with a little bit more care and a bit of a tidy would be ready for the old pva. A few points, the inside dimension of the box needs to be the finished width of the ballast, the working edge of the card was hardend with superglue, and the profile of the shaped piece of card needs to touch the top of the sleeper and the top of the rail, the function of the toothbrush is to clean the top of the sleeper and around the chair. ( I have got some explaining to Mrs W Station as to the whereabouts of her toothbrush ). I have just noticed that the photos have not gone into the sequence that I posted them. Edited February 10, 2014 by westerhamstation 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagpipes331 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Inspector gadget springs to mind! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 That is utter genius! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigherb Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I never ventured into the goods yard as it was still used as a coal yard after the station closed we usually got told to bug**r off sonny. But I seem to recall that there was an shed behind the gates on the left and the coil staiths where further down the siding, They where certainly some way down when I used to pick coal up in the 70's after the station had been demolished along with some form of coal hopper, never noticed if there was a loading bank there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Hi Adrian, Your Kitchener Ballaster has just reminded me of a thought I had a while back and didn't investigate it ........ Q. Could you put wet Ballast in a suitable waterproof Ballasting machine, of the pattern you made there ....... ..... on the grounds it might short cut one of the processes ......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted February 10, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2014 I never ventured into the goods yard as it was still used as a coal yard after the station closed we usually got told to bug**r off sonny. But I seem to recall that there was an shed behind the gates on the left and the coil staiths where further down the siding, They where certainly some way down when I used to pick coal up in the 70's after the station had been demolished along with some form of coal hopper, never noticed if there was a loading bank there. Hi BigHerb, thanks for your reply, it seems that information on the goods yard is going to be difficult to find after all this time. all the best Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I bet the toothbrush works better than the expensive ones. I used our bought one a couple of times then went back to by hand..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Those expensive ones would spread the Ballast everywhere Jaz .......................... better than the expensive ones. I used our bought one a couple of times then went back to by hand..... ............................................... and all that buzzing would get on my nerves too ..................... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted February 10, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 10, 2014 (edited) Hi Adrian, Your Kitchener Ballaster has just reminded me of a thought I had a while back and didn't investigate it ........ Q. Could you put wet Ballast in a suitable waterproof Ballasting machine, of the pattern you made there ....... ..... on the grounds it might short cut one of the processes ......... Hi Julian, I think that if you put wet ballast in it wouldn't spread but just end up stuck in the hopper and not drop down onto the track, I will leave it to someone else to try that experiment... all the best Adrian Edited February 10, 2014 by westerhamstation Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Yes, I rather thought that might be the case ... either that or so much water ..... and that doesn't bear any more thinking about ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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