Les Johnson

Hi Newtz, been meaning to congratulate you on your engines and atmospheric black and white pics for ages. Awesome! Keep going with the scratchbuilt shed, if it's anything like the rest of your work it will be amazing.

I've built my O gauge effort out of mainly foam board (scribed brick courses)

and card apart from windows by Townstreet and doors by York. Pits lined with plasticard and roof tiled with paper strips. It's far from good, but looks good (OK, alright) from afar!

Keep posting!

Les

Ps. Should have been some pics but obviously can't do it right yet!

looking good ,Ken. That's my next project! Im just about to order one in O from Alba Models. Hopefully it will just fall together, but I'm not holding my breath!

Hope you're well

Les

wouldnt say they look innocuous! The building on the left looks very interesting as a building and what about the 'services' within?

Strange you should be building yet another pub! Would you like to share anything with the group? Ha,ha

Les

bloody hell Ken! Absolutely brilliant modelling! Can you just knock me up the Baltic warehouse in Dens Road in 7mm?

Les

Hi Les

 

You're going to love this!

The corners are wood obtained from spent Guy Fawkes rockets, which is quite like balsa but of course comes free.

I've put three sections together to form the corner and give the building some strength, and sanded the outer corner to a pleasing curve, apart from the top section which comes out to form a right angle.   The brickpaper - unembossed, amazingly - is glued round the curved corner, and the side walls will be added to form the complete corner.  I may need to fill the transition from curved to angled corner to complete the job.

I'm just starting on the "plettie", at the upper floor rear doors, with etched railings to be measured, cut and glued in place, and then leading down a flight of steps to ground level - easy-peasy!

Not much further to go then.........

 

Ken

Aaahhh! The pletties! Do you remember the ones that had the enclosed stairwell with a toilet on each landing? Did everyone take turns cleaning them? Wouldn't have liked doing that after someone had had a night out at the Angus Bar! Ha,ha! Wouldn't happen these days. The cleaning on a regular basis, I mean.

Les

The gable end looks really fantastic. Great modelling! I love the way you have got the curved corners! Is the superquick paper just that ie. paper, or is it embossed somehow because it looks like it is?

Les

What a lovely building the Angus Bar is. Takes me right back to Arbroath/Dundee.

Les

Which end of Ogilvy was the bar? Living in the past! That's me. Just bought the album of the same name by Jethro Tull. Remember them?

Les

Hi again Ken, lamps are not even electric at the moment ,never mind gas! Even though my grandfather (Dundee) was an electrical engineer, and I worked at MANWEB when I left School, wiring is not my strong point!

Do you think water tower was on two brick walls like picture or was it on a 'square' structure?

What projects are you working on at the moment, or have you finished your masterpiece? Ha,ha!

Les

Hi Ken, 'it's the pits' not a patch on Steves on Cardiff Canton, but I'm getting there. I'm going to try Redutex setts for the flooring, see what it looks like before scribing. Tis expensive though so I might have to be a bit 'creative'!

And the lamps, my best take on the picture in that book. Shed is all scratchbuilt apart from doors and windows and a wee bit of plastic in the pits. Hope you like

Les

Hi Les and LNER4479, and others!

 

Thanks for your kind comments - flattery will get you - to Arbroath.........

 

Here's a photo of the loco yard in 1973 with the edge of the turntable well still visible, and Nature beginning to take over.

 

Hi Ken, Arbroath rising from the ashes! Sorry to hijack your thread.

 Here's one a few years before when turntable and shed were just about still in use, ha,ha! Shed roof removed . Taken from almost the same spot!

Hi Ken, like the coal shed especially the curved one. Getting back to the pic of the shed in that book, what is above the engine? Is it roof trusses, or is it framework for long since broken smoke troughs? Would all of the shed floor been covered in sets ie. between tracks and between rails? I'm now going to attempt to add picture of my efforts so far! If it doesn't appear let me know.

Cheers Les

Are they doing anything about the cheeky grin while you are in for the op? Ha,ha. Did you mention previously you had used Redutex? If so, is it flat or is it like 3D?

Les

Hi Ken, book arrived today. Not bad for £6.00 ! Some great pics, especially interior of Arbroath shed, apart from the fact that it's upset me even more about my choice of Northlight shed! Roof trusses all wrong, painted white walls instead of black/white, also I haven't put windows in back wall. Doors are about the only thing that look ok ha,ha! Weathered to hell!

The walls can be repainted and I thankfully haven't started the floor. Pits look ok but longer than mine(I can live with that)! I know I said I wouldn't but I might have to rejig the roof and change the windows out front! Ah well! Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction.

Cheers again Les

Looking good. As is the 'three piece suite'! Where did that green diesel come from? Got the book on ebay. Due Thursday.

Les

Hi ?Ken, got a lone bid on Ebay for the book. One more day to go!

Les

Hi Ken, hope everything is OK with you and yours? Still breathing here. Results of scan show no more work needed at present!

Another question though, what was floor like inside shed? Do you know? Setts or what? I'm sure I have a pic somewhere but can I find it.......! Never moving house again!

Cheers Les

Hi Ken, absolutely brilliant. Many thanks for pic of St.Vigeans box. Are all the window frames plasticard?

I don't know how you can be so precise working in OO, when I'm struggling in O gauge!"

Can't wait to see them 'planted'.

Hope you had a great holiday

Cheers

Les

And another question! Would windows and doors of the shed have been Caley blue originally?

Hope your hol is going well

Les

I thought Steve Fay might enjoy this. The theory is that she might have wandered off the Brecon & Merthyr line to Cwm Bach following a trip to Newport. The Ivatt 2MTneeds to be renumbered, probably as a Brecon-based loco that would have run up to Moat Lane or down to Newport. I also need to procure and fit a suitable DCC sound decoder. More tasks to add to the list.

Hi Chris, I saw that you had posted this again recently on someone else's thread, but couldn't find it, that's why I've gone back to this one!

This would look soooooooo much better on my Arbroath shed layout when it's finished, and I would only have to change ONE number!

If you ever decide to stick with small industrials or whatever, give me first refusal please?

Les

Steve, best of luck mate. My daughter was rushed into Walton Hosp in Liverpool 2 yrs ago with severe pain down her right side ,after complaint to her doctor for months of pain and pins and needles in her side and back, and having been sent home by our local hospital a week earlier, told it was sciatica and to take painkillers. When she got Walton, they were ready prepped and rushed into theatre. Four hous later they had removed a disc which was crushing the nerve sack. She was out after a week, but had a dropped foot and was limping terribly. She is OK now thank God, but it took a long time.

The doctors at

Walton really told her off because she hadn't gone sooner(although as I say she had been to local GP and had had scans at our local hosp! ) Walton said she had developed corda Aquino and could have been paralysed if she had left it any longer!dont want to worry you but as ?I said don't leave it!

Cheers Les

Thanks Ben. Done any more on Far North recently. I'll post up some Arbroath shed pics as soon as I get the hang of it! Can't seem to get the pixel thing right!

Cheers Les

Hi Ken. Box looking good, any more progress? Daft question but what are the squares above the shed doors with, I think, red and white quadrants?

Cheers Les

PS can you resend picture of what will be your St.Vigeans box?

In BR days, they were 'common user' so got pretty well everywhere; I'm pretty certain I've seen shots of parcels trains on Beattock with them in the formation.

Many thanks FC !

Nice work, on the Fruit D Jinty. I just love these vans BUT do you think they ever got as far as Scotland???

Les