Black Sheep

getting there with my duchess...

A little bit more sketching today;

Plan for how the station and station hotel fit onto the layout, figure I can gradually build up a picture of how it should fit together, then start mocking up in real life (never been one for scale models of scale models) 

So, the formal building that sits across the end of the bay platform lines (parcels traffic on the line nearest the ''front''

The hotel will have an entrance onto the promenade (Queen Victoria Drive perhaps?) and an entrance towards the station. 

The road / car park slopes up to the station, just think a little queue of taxis from hotel round to entrance. 

tupperware?

 

 

 

Hmm, my Station car park is big enough for that, plus I have some double yellow lines on the approach road...

 

That's so unrealistic, I'm sorry, but it is. 

There's always one who can't park and straddles a white line!

Sheep being marked goes back years, what is used has changed but I recall seeing a book from the 20's 30's I believe showing each farmers marks for the local area along with address (not many phones)

Twas in the museum of Lakeland Life

No progress as struggling to visualise in my head how it's going to look and then get it onto paper with space for platforms, buildings, streets etc in order to add additional track features (goods yard, depot etc)

I want to run local terminating trains with shunt release from the local MPD (possibly off scene) but this invokes the issue of turning trains round so this might have to have a separate fiddle yard under the layout / at the side of the layout

I'm tempted at times to switch locations to being at the side of a lake and build ''Rio'' somewhere in Cumbria which is what Milliedale was evolving into until I found I had enough space to make a go of Milliedale - on - Sea as that may fall into place easier. 

Decisions, decisions. 

Yes, but they still invited Simon and his excellent layout...

I don't deny how good it is (would love to see it in the flesh) but, "how to get lynched at an O gauge guild show…."

For anybody in the area, we are out again with the Hobbiton tomorrow at the O Gauge exhibition in Bristol and in a couple of weeks time in Monmouth -

 

Bristol - http://www.bogg7mmexhibition.com/

 

Monmouth - http://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=327038&ClubID=635

 

Best wishes

SImon

They are aware that it's not O gauge?...

I didn't know they made a quad bike as well. I saw a set at the swap meet at Brentwood on Saturday with the Isetta bubble car, the asking price was £10 but as I did not want the rest of the set I let it go.

I know a bike garage under the arches like that!

Brick terraced housing one in the middle with 1:1 scale embossed stone cladding. (or a stone one with stone cladding like down my road!https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Chatsworth+Rd,+Chesterfield,+Derbyshire+S40+3JX/@53.231291,-1.460389,3a,52.5y,161h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1si8zcNemT9FzcQU6T68wGJQ!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879850c8933ed25:0x516ec21c2c09f4ba!6m1!1e1)

Terraced housing with some of the houses with windows modified (usually badly) to landscape format instead portrait.

In a similar vein, a few stone built terraces here with each house a different state of clean, the rain has cleaned a fair bit of soot and muck off them over the last 40 years but a few have been jet washed / blasted clean, others painted and some left how the weather left them

 

 

Also to avoid moving traffic a car waiting for someone to exit a car parking place and holding up the whole town in doing so.

 

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Fit a tortoise motor under the car trying to parallel park so it shuffles back and forwards, don't worry about the car twisting round, be accurate for parking around here if it backs onto the kerb facing the wrong way, and no that is not a comment on my wife's parking

I know what I have not seen modelled - cars, lorries or coaches with 'L' plates on them, it could give reason to lines of stationary traffic.

Doing a 3-point turn?

When I started the thread I was thinking little details we notice in our daily lives that aren't modeled, eg, 'red light, wait here' signs always seem to have a dent in them

We appear to have de-railed through cameos towards 'how to get lynched...'

That is indeed the nature of a forum but, while the 1940's German village could be an accurate depiction, perhaps the discussion on it should be its own thread like the train robbery has had so we can be irreverent of society without forgoing our humanity?

Could substitute whit walk for a protest march,

NUM in the 80's for example.

Could stretch to a beach fight on the south coast in the 60's but we're straying into cameos here away from the extra detail ideas of earlier

cant remember seeing any layouts with ticket machines or platforms with the bin removed and a clear plastic bag added to the fittings for security matters. The first I suppose is rarely modelled as they are normally within a building and therefore unseen on most models but the second is definitely part of the noticeable modern scene

and usually blown inside out by a passing train! 

Have said this before in a similar thread, pigeons on platforms. Also, abandoned Christmas trees, dog poo bins and who is going to be the first to have Elsa and Anna or Olaf.......

 

 

I'll let it go..... !

£10 on it being Aboreum Valley

A great example of a serious layout not taken too seriously

Have you seen Foster Street's (grim up north topic) elephant train?

Sorry to add a tangent, Jaz, I was wondering how you planned the new town?

Was it simply positioning things where they might fit and shuffling until they looked right or did you sit and plan where roads were going to go first?

 

Finally, a common sight along railway embankments was/is old prams, shopping trolleys, traffic cones and so on. 

Traffic cone on a statue's head like a hat. 

On my way to work this morning I spotted a couple of things I've not seen modelled before and thought we could compile things we've noticed in our daily life as suggestions / inspiration for adding a bit of character / realism to our modelling.

I'll start

Motorbikes, while seen on the occasional pre 70's layout where they were a popular cheap mode of transport, especially in large cities I don't think I've seen a modern bike on a modern layout.

Odd socks in laybys - every layby I've pulled into recently has a soggy odd sock either on the kerb or on near the exit, not sure how or why

Horse poo, if there are horse drawn vehicles, there'll be some horse poo somewhere near by...

How were you getting on with resolving Shapeway's pricing structure? 

My layout is no more but the new one doesn't have the height restriction the old one had so about to have a browse of your shop and hopefully acquire a chimney. 

Those puddles look great!

Happy Christmas, 

Here's Pete the christmas llama come to wish you happy christmas

Need to try this on my shunting layout

Nah, merely northeners just getting on wit' job.

wheres the oops button....

 

as in I was there....now i have coloured the pavements etc.....and have to go back to the white LOL

Ah, but how it looks in a photo and how it looks in real life can differ.

It was the wet / dry looking sections of road that I liked.