David Bigcheeseplant
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Whatever happened to Hursley?
David Bigcheeseplant replied to a topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
I don’t think Paul at Wild Swan has any plans for an MRJ show number two, remember the MRJ show was a response to the lack of decent finescale shows and the dubbing down of IMREX, When I become exhibition manager of Railex it was built on the same ideas of the MRJ show with finescale quality layouts and trade, although I have to keep the standards up year after year rather than do it just once. I can assure you hopefully you will see layouts at future Railex that have been booked via Wild Swan! But it does raise the point what layouts would you like to see in future. David -
Yesterday I sprayed the outside walls with red primer followed by airbrushing over a mix of Humrol orange and a small amount Pheonix dark brick red, Today I painted Humrol 121 light stone and wipped it off so the paint remained in the mortar lines, I need to do more work but its starting to look ok and the colour seems close to the terriced house opposite. I had thought the inside of the shed was chocolete and cream but it may be while and black, whatever the colour its not very clean. David
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Looking at this photo the mortar looks light, so think this will be what I start off with, and weather then to match.
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I still need to play around with the colours, and intend maybe to darken the mortar later, the picture is of a test piece anyway. I don't have many colour photos but have a feeling the shed may been a bit darker or weathered than the bridge pillar anyway, I find it easyier to go darker if need be than make things lighter. Does anyone have any photos of the hut on the end of the up platform it was the original Aylesbury and Buckingham signal box then later a porters room and was there untill around fifteen years ago. David
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I assembled the three walls of the office at the rear of the shed using plastic weld the mitre corners with correct brickwork round the corners and windows shows up well here. I also added more mortar colour in to the test pieces, and although I still need to get the base colour correct this effect was achived without too much effort.
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These are some of the parts York Modelmaking laser cut for me, also a test piece that I am trying to paint, I first gave it a spray of halfords red primer, then ran mortar colour in the grooves, then I have dry brushed the brick work, I think I need to get the colour a more orange colour I may try colour pencils or water colour as per Pendon. I dont have too many colour pictures of the shed but took some photos of the footbridge brickwork that was built at the same time and was demolished a couple of years back. David
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These are the laser cut windows Paul has cut for me all I can say is they are truly outstanding I also picked up at Warley the laser cut sides of the shed, I will try and take some more pics at the weekend as this was taken in poor light but you can see the correct English bond brickwork with quater brick closer, I am experementing now how to paint it!
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A cleanish L1 at Aylesbury think I may renumber mine as this one.
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When CoT went to the old Swindon museum in 1962 she was repainted plain green with the number 3717, although you could see the old livery under the new paintwork. When running in the 1950s the sandboxes were painted Indian red rather than green as used on the post 1985 livery David
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What is the thinest line you can cut down to and are curves possible? if I send you drawings over any chance of doing my windows? David
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The model will be made painted and weathered exactly as prototype, as it's right in the front of the layout so I want to get it right, hopefully I will get the drawings off this week and maybe able to collect from Warley. David
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No I am going to do the windows in etched brass, as I think the laser cut windows are not fine enough, I also plan to etch the smoke troughs. I am not too sure yet on what to use for the corrigated aspestos roof.
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This is my card mock up of the engine shed I am building for our clubs Aylesbury Town project; I drew up the building in AutoCAD with all the correct brickwork with quarter closure bricks at all corners. I am getting York Modelmaking to laser cut the whole lot in 1.5mm Romark (a modified form of ABS) each wall will be built of three layers the outer brickwork in 1.5mm Romark a centre clear 1mm acrylic and again a 1.5mm Romark inner skin with all brickwork detail. Before I sent it off to get cut out I printed out everything out on paper which was then glued to card and then the parts cut out and assembled to give me an idea of how it would look and make sure everything worked as it should. When York Modelmaking cut out the sides they will also chamfer the mating corners on a circular saw at 45 degrees so each side mates correctly without losing any of the corner brickwork detail. David
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The cab has also the limousine doors first fitted to the class in 1953
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I have a full brake on order, I will see how it compares to the Comet one I built a few years ago, I am sure I can add inall the brake pull rods and underframe bits and pieces. David
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An LNER V2 ended up in Swindon works and they put a copper capped chimney on it, there is a photo to prove it in a book. David
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Another of John Reeds photos this one shows a split footplate example with a Met loco behind David
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I am going to need a couple for our Aylesbury project. Here is one in apple green BR livery at Aylesbury just like the Hornby model, but I prefer the split frame front end. David
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Some photos of Whitchurch Road
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Scalescenes wishlist
David Bigcheeseplant replied to Rammy's topic in Card structure modelling forum
Although I am likely to scratch build my own buildings,I would think GWR standard goods sheds and station buildings could be a winner. David -
I have a 97XX to finish, it is a Samhongsa brass model although I have built a High Level pannier chassis to go under it, David
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I had a run on the demo line behind COT pulling a couple of period coaches, Hope you like the B & W photo, other than the fence it could be 1912.
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Another photo
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I went to Didcot today and I must admit City of Truro looked great in its new livery. David
