Black Sheep

I attended many useful lectures on modeling with plasticard during my time at Wakefield model railway club, one of their members used to build everything out of the stuff and had many molds for making loco boilers and could happily produce batches of them on a camping stove in the club house! I've always been under the impression that once formed the plasticard will retain it's new shape, although some shaping wil be easier than others. Speaking of plasticard, how are your pavements produced? or has that been covered in an update i've missed when scanning quickly back through the thread?

are city centres your modelling preference or would you consider having a go at the suburbs or even countryside?

Black 5

I think I'll get away with the tarmac being a bit patchy, probably will, if I've not mixed enough, make some sections to fill in later as though the road has been repaired, being set in '47-'49 then I'll explain it as repairs to bomb damage with regards to shaping plasticard, (you may already know) that making formers and heating with hairdryer to soften or rubber bands holding it to the formers and in a pan of boiling water to soften it.

I did notice the other day on my own layout using code 80 points that wheels dip at the frog as if they were going into a pot-hole, will be looking at filling that slightly

and once again an armada of small boats crosses the water... hang on, no, that's a spitfire beer ad...

The Medway Queen has the look of a lakeland pleasure craft to her along the lines of Teal and Swan before re-fit (or possibly the older versions of the current vessels) although the Medway Queen obviously has her paddle boxes but she'd be suitable to more than just a riverside or estuary setting, especially if the paddle boxes could be made optional allowing for a paddle steamer or steam yacht.

I love how in that photo it makes the railway look as though it's on a gradient! were the pavements in position before plastering or put in place after? Is it just normal household 'fill that crack and slap a bit of paint on it before the estate agent comes' plaster?

Has anyone said a georgean row yet?

Sorry to be turning back time a little here, I was wondering how you had done the tram track and road as I'm looking at putting a stretch of tram line in that goes along my 'high st' Is it just some flexi track and then the road surface built up using card / plaster etc? thanks

All my hopes and dreams crushed! The standard of modeling is something I amongst many would love to see in the flesh, but I understand the many reasons behind not wanting to exhibit (the getting lynched at an exhibition thread covers many of them!) looking forward to future updates and re-working my own layout to a better standard as a result of your work - thank you

I nearly got lynched for running Bill and Ben double headed up the narrow gauge section of a certain north western O gauge LMS layout one wakefield show... ... Then a Big Boy rolled round the main line.

that had me in stitches!

what will become of the current Frankland when you've finished? or is the plan to build an exhibition layout and keep Frankland at home?

strips of thin plasticard, a strip per row of tile, individual tiles scored in and work up from bottom row of tiles up to apex. could work, based partly on the scale scenes paper method

I believe you just rub the powders on with a cotton bud or a brush if your wife can apply make-up 1950's powder style then you might find she takes to it better than yourself!

What scale, era and area are you building?

Brilliant layout, forgot it was N at times! still trying to get my head round the placing buildings into the landscape having built them on a seperate base.

If you are mainly running HST's then running the controler output through a sound decoder connected to speakers under the layout (see Model Rail) then sound is possible.

[adds to christmas list]

perhaps we should go with 'pestering child' (any child can be a pestering child) instead of implying something more.

a pair of toe-nail clippers can make short work of plastic legs.

I couldn't have operated Highbury if Kim hadn't shown me which of the multiple identical levers did what!