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City of Blinding Lights - U2

Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf

Space Oddity - David Bowie

Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes

Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward

24 hours from Tulsa - Gene Pitney had to break the themes theme!

There is progress - at the pace of a geriatric snail. With all those brick buildings, it could take a while. I also have to decide how to control the points - I'm not fond of the thwack that you get with solenoid point motors, and in my experience they play hell with solder joints. More procrastinating called for I think

Bad - U2

In The City - The Jam

Bobby Jean - Bruce Springsteen

Thanks Stu. Plenty of time for disaster/inertia to strike although being signed off work for 3 weeks might help to prevent the second of those.

In order to get the trains off-scene, I needed to make some escape hatches in the sides of the winebox. Out came the power tools, and with some work and some luck I made the right sized holes in the right places. (Woodwork is not something I'm good at). Feeling pleased with myself, I took some photos through the new openings. Apologies for the depth of field problems - I need to get the camera manual out and work out how to overcome these. First - a view from the front-right hole. Then a view along the main-line from the right hand end of the layout. And now ... a view along the main-line in the opposite direction. A view of the right hand end of the box ... and a close up of that view. Finally a view of t'other end ... and a close up of that. Bear in mind that nothing is fixed down yet - although I look to have committed myself to making this

Having laid out a number of bits and pieces in my wine box to see if I liked it, I then went on holiday for a week - Mallorca if you insist on knowing. On my return I took another look at the proposed layout and decided that, with one or two adjustments, I still like it. Normally at this stage I would set off and build the track, but I don't need to do that as it's being recycled from an abandoned project. So, instead I've begun making the buildings that this layout will need. I have in my store of unstarted kits a couple of Kibri kits that are just the job for what I have in mind, so I set to on the first of them. I won the kits on e-bay and I'm astounded by the sheer quantity of plastic that I got for my money. The wall sections come "pre-coloured" like this: Hopefully I can make the colouring a bit more convincing, but we'll see. First, I went over the whole wall section with a coating of "mortar" - in my case B & Q's One Coat Sandstone emulsion, which I bought in a test pot (lots of paint for about ??1.20). After letting the paint become touch-dry, I used a damp make-up sponge to remove most of the paint from the brick surfaces. The result was this: Yes I know, the wall panel has changed! Once it had dried, I used standard dry-brush techniques to add a coat of Humbrol Acrylic No. 70 (Brick Red), working the brush at an angle of about 45 degrees to the mortar courses. I now have this: Looks like I need to go over it again with the drybrushing.

Layout in a wine box by 65243 original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ ??? posted on Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:47 pm Out for a walk a few weeks ago I came across this wine box just lying around. It made me think of all the boxfile layouts on here, so of course, I picked it up A little work with a jig-saw (first time I'd used it in anger) and a couple of hinges later: I've since cut the screws back - don't want any accidents. Then I put some track and stock in - just to get a feel for how much room there is in there. Looks like it might have some potential __________________________________________ Comment posted by Fat Controller on Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:00 pm 65243 wrote: Out for a walk a few weeks ago I came across this just lying around. Of course, I picked it up Crikey- 14% Chardonnay! We thought we were doing well when we got 12% on this year's harvest. __________________________________________ Comment posted by nzovu on Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:53 am Great idea! Wineboxes are so frustrating, because they've got this great feel and look, but I never know what to use them for. I have a couple lying around that I was going to use for displaying stock (on the wall, with an added shelf and a glass front), but this is better! Very curious about the anger and the jigsaw, but I better not ask ! __________________________________________ Comment posted by Barcaneatpete on Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:57 am Nice idea - am watching with interest - you didn't say whether the wine was still inside the box when you stumbled across it __________________________________________ Comment posted by cornelius on Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:02 am Looks like some grape potential here. __________________________________________ Comment posted by Steve with the Hat on Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:30 am Looking good - press on! __________________________________________ Comment posted by eldavo on Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:44 am Space for something juicy. Cheers Dave __________________________________________ ??? posted on Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:53 am Barcaneatpete wrote: Nice idea - am watching with interest - you didn't say whether the wine was still inside the box when you stumbled across it Sadly not. No sign of the bottles either. Away back when ... I'd entertained thoughts of building a P4 layout in a couple of IKEA boxes (SNACK). A serious lack of motivation and the need to use the boxes for their intended function (i.e. to store things in!) means that the track I built then is now available for this project. So this will form the bulk of the trackwork. I'm thinking of making it a small dockside area just now, with all track infilled with cobbles. I need to think about buildngs - it'd be nice if I could fit everything in the box with the lid shut for transport - and fiddleyards - how many and how to attach them to the box. __________________________________________ Comment posted by Steve with the Hat on Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:33 am Its certainly got a more practical feel about the space for modelling, boxfiles seem more like animated dioramas. Could you make a single road fiddleyard on each side that detaches so they can be stored in the box for transport ? good luck Steve __________________________________________ ??? posted on Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:56 pm Steve with the Hat wrote: Its certainly got a more practical feel about the space for modelling, boxfiles seem more like animated dioramas. Could you make a single road fiddleyard on each side that detaches so they can be stored in the box for transport ? good luck Steve That's what I was thinking - maybe something like Philip Parker did with Melbridge Box Company (http://www.pagenumberone.co.uk/layouts/Boxfile/index.htm). As I'm on holiday just now, I had time to root around in my collection of kits and bits. I came across a couple of Kibri kits that I "won" on e-bay a while back. I've placed some of the wall sections together on the layout to get a feel for how it might look. I'll need to think about a backscene, and maybe a wall and some gates to cover the gap in the centre rear, but apart from that I think I like it. __________________________________________ Comment posted by shortliner on Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:13 pm I only just picked up on this - or I'd have offered another suggestion for the cutting of the winebox - not sure of the size, so please excuse the dimensions You are looking down on the winwbox from above - ie this is a plan view winebox.jpg (22.83 KiB) __________________________________________ Comment posted by rouse2037 on Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:24 pm Mmmmmm wine! I like the look of the way this is going! Nice one. Roger __________________________________________

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