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And we finaly hit the Harbour. and light house. Just Like a before ply and air dry clay. 1. cut ply to shape 2. roll out a sheet of air clay 3. paint PVA on ply 4 press clay onto ply smoth and trim as neaded 5. leave a good heavy book on it and do something else for a few days. then using match sticks (i filed trenchs for them to fit into, and add some bash boards using wooden coffee stir things cut down (thanks CostAlot coffee i will redem my money in usefull sticks. ) Painted as before I added a old row boat (printed titanic life boat), to which i took a dremal to make a wrotten hole in it as i want the resin water to get inside the boat. ad i also drew some anchor points and a Petrol tank for the forge (its turning into a garge, like old forges did) Also drew and printed of a steel staircase that goes over the older very worn old stone steps, and beded in the lighthouse. I shoed a friend and he said "put old lobster pot's in that boat" so i worked that out note one photo shows the first one way to bright it stands out to much, so i dulled them down a bit. Calvin Streeting oo and spot the Old wodden jetty

The Forge leet needs a OLD divert and for that i drew and printed a iorn pipe to and then i had to work out the lower bridges, these are on the much newer costal line, and so designed drew and printed the parts This poor old leet has also to be diverted again by the costal line, back into the stream, we shall see more latter in background etc. Calvin Streeting

After that lot got bed in i could work down the stream toward the inner loop. This needed to span the river and aslo be a retaing wall as it passed the fordge and as this was the oldest part of the railway (first lines layed) it needed to be OLD and grand, but now hamered by years of use and also a newer line (outer loop) added later. So i designed and drew this based on some OLD GWR bridges with a touch of egyption to it, its a full bridge, then half bridge (due to forge leet) and the full retaining wall that will go way into the station. railways have to obay the land. I also added some parts to the tunnel mouth (a date plate) and colum tops to match so it looks 1 piece of work Calvin Streeing

that worked well so lets get those trees in, but i also need ground cover brambles etc, for these i used 3 inches of brass picture wire soldered at each end cut in half and played out, sprayed rusty red, and sprinked with dry dark green scatter, I also sampled ALOT of dry leaves ground up and glued down (i have included a few photos of the test board) under the brambles and tress durring tree placement i noted 1 tree that obscured a view and removed it, this is why i like lots of photos. and play spot the grave stone or old stone circle. calvin streeting this also allowed me to final place the terace houses and put the stream and path down the back yards and test all roof lines .. I think they work

So now lets put alot down.. and to test final ideas i decided to do inside of Monistry as it would not need to be 100% as i doudt it will be seen. Stage 1, pva and water and sprinkle real dryed dirt poweder from back garden (tryed 3 different soil types to get right colour) and real sand (light buff) to repersent the paths of local crushed stone so colour had to match the rocks. Stage 2. pva and glue and 2mm green (i think spring) grass for middle areas Stage 3 4mm moss or medow grass for Corners and various bits Each matrial is tested on scraps of ply and my little secion of track from ballast tests earlyer (mood board), i do this as can take it out side to see in daylight (very important step) ok that looked ok and thus added some lichen and a small tree. and only place lichen on one side as mose mostly grows on north side of trees, and trees reach for the sun. (told you look to much at trees) This was then repeated to the hill top, and i had a plan for trees so could leave dirt patches as neaded and paths etc. and elm placed to make sure looked ok Calvin Streeting

Thanks Ok where was I. now i moved back up the hill, and get some of this finished (ish) before i wont always be able to reach it once town is fixed in place. And that meens its tree time. I have a lot of stock model trees (thanks to my Bro ) but i still wanted some varaity of species. but to the most part all made the same way, twisted wire and plaster cover, scored for bark, and painted, the amount of wires etc all vary and you will find me staring at trees in winter. and i also took photos with painted buildings in background to make sure i maintain the pallet of colours for the whole thing, as i want to control what stands out 1. good background trees for bulk darkness etc 2: some large standard Oaky looking ones 3: some silver birch 4: smaller hazel trees 5: and as this is a old english worship site (stone circle and then monistory) we must have a elm, elms where planted for the many uses (bows, medicine, etc) and usually a peice is placed into a grave, and grows around old head stones, a key part of that typical english grave yard. (can you tell i googled that up ), and we are going to need some grave stones drawn up and printed. these are then placed without foliage and potos taken so i know what i am hiding by the canopies, and how the canopies should form, dont forget i want those bend down and look into the wood views. for the foliage i used stock clump spraymounted for the oaks, cheep brown wool pulled apart spraymount glued and some green scatter, hazel's used grey wool and a lighter scatter. each is then checked wether they let through enought light as we want to see through parts. so thats the trees ready (but not yet planted) so they are stored on piece of foam instulation in thier relevent postion (aka maped out)

now on a roll i decided to paint the Old Coach House and Forge ready for final placement. lots of different materials here stone, render, brick, timber, shiplap. its a old building with adaptions through time. I did like the way the stables roof came out maybe one day the owner will repair it even loose tiles in water wheel leet. I have aslo included a placement shot that shows the road layout, Monisttory, and the stone circle, you can even see the course of the strwam down the bback of the houses and past side of Forge. After printing silly small chairs i aslo worked on a push bike, Note paint needs dulling down as it stands out to much atm. So Homemad Static Grass Aplicator test and sample colour check soon be good to get far back part in as i will not be able to reach it again once Coach house is in place. Calvin Streeting

erm lots... the next stage was to get the station building painted and start to work on the interior. This is done by drawing in photoshop (over a CAD exported template) layers for the signs, doors, wood work etc, folded and glued they slide in from above floor by floor. But on the ground (platfrom level) floor i planed a small Cafe (as you would expect) and this needs chairs and tables, and i have been printing small stuff so lets see YAY chairs, tables, benches and a typical 1950's counter I also put down platfrom 1 so i can soon glue down the shop and houses (not old war time posters in this less used part of the station Note: the sign poster for "Shell Beach" from the film where the station name comes from, but i bet when finished your have to really look to see it.. and thats why i wanted 1 bench done Calvin Streeting

Thanks (and all others who have commented) i had a look a lewes a and i can see what you meen anyway after that lot i had to go back up the line, as i now had a order of what needed doing (for example the shops are over paltform 1 and thus that needs doing before being buried etc). so its sort out platform edges (single plastickard slabs indervidualy glued down) and air clay in between. you can also see holes for canopy supports/wires etc I also got given a loco by work (20 years present) which was nice, so out came the DCC chip, some SMD leds and DIRT as it was way to clean, and this was a chance to play with new stuff weathering powders and i also made afew more light signals 1: a wall mount with side to yard (end of platform 1 and entrance to yard) you can see it on the wall near the signal box in one of the platform shots and 2. a VERY small smd led ground sgnal Calvin Streeting Note: re these models i will post links latter to STL files as all avalible etc. but only when i get past the back log as dont want to plot spoller and i still have 1 more year of back log to post. trust me

and this lead to me playing with semiphore versions and they HAVE to work as i have a moving pump engine so with servo control in mind and CAD fired up we got Notr: 1. the bracket signal needs more work to be 100% working right but you get the idea 2. the lights are very small smd led's with pre soldered tails from ebay ooo and i made a bilboard for near the gas works to advertise safty matches and light bulbs.. Calvin Streeting

This then brought me to the signaling, I know i wanted a bit of a mix, semiphore for the older main line but the newer parts would be early BR (ish) red and green light from, so gues what, of to google and couple of hours of drawing time, i had this it takes standard 3mm led's and is a printed kit style again but with 4mm lolly pop straws for the main sharfts Calvin Streeting

and after that.. a simple job of printed angle iron frame and wire mesh to make a chain link fence for in front of gas works, ooo and GOD alot more point rodding printed and layed

next i had most of the back wall worked out, but the gap between the East Point Works and canal bridge needed filling so i googled Gas Works (as you do ) and learnt all about the prosses of makeing coal gas, and what each stage did, I think you have to know what you are drawing and why , how it worked and whet it looked like and from this i drew, printed, and made. Note the house hold wirring used for smaller pipes with bits of insulation left on to repersent flanges, and each round tank is actually eliptical to fake depth Calvin Streeting

And for my final part tonight lets post the painted pumphouse the chimney yet to be full hieght as final seating will let me know 100% where the ceiling is. oo and lights and spot the lego mock up of Coach Shed (to be worked out, but maybe one of the first railway building on the site

Step to Many ... this is the cutting back wall, where we support the old canel bridge and have a brick warehouse on older stone foundation wall. lots of erm to work out cloping ceiling cut of point here. but this shows my painting steps as it has about 4 different materails. 1: it is first sprayed grey primmer 2: various moter colours washed on to relevent area 3. top brick or stone dry brused on in various layers 4. wheathering (brown dirt upward) green water runs downward, and dark grey smoke everywhere then washed with brown or black in patches Note sign is moked up in photoshop only atm. as yet to work out 100% how to do it any pointers good Calvin Streeting

So we have the pump built onward with the pump house, so back to standard design,draw, and now print and make. still using plasticard for walls, as simpler and not too expensive. for the moment this building will remain unpainted while i work on low relaf wall for back of cutting Calvin Streeting

Soooo... after a bit of thinking and google for inperation it dawned on me that the canel was quite a bit high and if railway is under it could do with a pump house to keep it toped up with water, this canel is old and thus so would be the pump house and and the pump its self would be old and thus more than likely a beam engine, oooo fun.. so i researched all about beam engines and seteled on a reciprocating atmospheric i fell in love with the boulton and watt mechanism used to keep the piston shaft vertical, and (sly grim) wondered if i could make it move espiscally as the building would be light up and with those ideotypical old large industrial windows, so out came CAD and alot of time i drew detailed plans. with layed out the geomitry of both the pump mechanism and the living quaters at the rear (might board some of that up latter) These were then replicated into 3d and printed into a arfix style kit. using copper wire for pivots this labour of love but WORT every hour when i got it moving. hats of to boulton and watt it works soooo well. the main draw rod will latter extend below the board to a motor and thus be drivern in reverse. to see it moving by hand youtube https://youtu.be/u6s-ND8r3jA

No Problems, as been meening to post stuf for awhile but we have about 2 years more to go to reach today.. and now we enter the year of 0 AP (After 3d printer) and after success of canopy and slightly stuck with that end of board (many layers that needed planing which order to do what etc). So for a break i looked at the other end, the main aim here was to twist / fool the viewer to thinking the line goes straight onward into next room (could do but wife said NO ) so to hide this end i decided a canel, this works with the time idea as that would have been here before the railway. it also allowed for a small yard/shutting etc on top with 0-4-0 etc..so plans sketched(ish) i started with a canel bridge to go over the back (fake) tunnel entrance. I also decided to give printing point rodding as i needed ALOT more then 8 x 2m runs, and to be honest i think i got them looking ok (abit larger as rod is 0.5mm x 0.5mm square, i even printed of cranks etc. and they do so add to the line of the track. Calvin Streeting this printing thing is fun.. and my printer is a machine in flux, as its added to repaired replaced etc.. anoying sometimes but invaluble, and i havent had to cut any more windows since

So the next project was to fill the gap at the back (on the incline) not much room here etc. but after some thought a warehouse and gas works seemed like a good idea as can be low profile and right by the railway. All drawn in cad and windows printed, and main building made of varoius plastikards, added pips, signs, and painted with a heavy layer of dirt. and of to google to work out what it is that makes a gas plant look like a gas plant.

As a break from draw print/ draw print etc. i went back to light house and changed the latern windows and painted it after fitting a 8 LED array with sweep function and also primed the OLD coach house ater addeing more including the side road, starting to come toghter by now. I also put the forge into the garage with a hole for latter flikering light, oh and added water wheel slow motor good stuff this PC controlled trains and notice NO straight lines, look at how the Coach House is ALL over the place with repair/bodge additions etc..

From then on i was ok.. i can print stuff so out came CAD and i worked out the basic pattern of the canopy iron work etc. each bay of the canopy is a one off as angles change etc. but a with printer is no problem, the roof is still plain old plasticard, i think its very atmosperic etc. I even took time out to sort out the old sluce gates. and test lighting, the paint work is crimsion and cream (like midland BR colours). only 4 bays atm. more latter calvin streeting

YAY worked out how to edit topic title. and after that building i got distracted with what this new printer thing could do.. and how to improve it by printing more parts. and also how small can i get what detail do i have, thus some standard thest prints of valance signals, canopy structures etc... all good and then back to makeing the main station building that is 3 storyies tall as entrance is on first floor and platform is on ground floor. also the footbridge will come out of the frst floor. and ALOT of printing latter.. it started to look good it helps having 3d CAD skills Calvin Streeting Oh and in a bit i will post downloads links for the 3d printed parts.. but saving that atm, so to avoid spoilers...

and next we have the OLD Coach house and medival barn/forge water powed from the stream that will run down the back between the old Monistory and houses. complete with sluce gates (more google) for both stream, water wheel leet and latter main station water tower, the Coach house has long since been converted into a house with its main entrance blocked up a georgian frontage placed on and the old barn now a sperate building to be converted into a forge and latter a early garage as time adapts, this was another plywood frame with clay, and plasticard for timber parts, and finaly i bought a cheep crap 3d printer as cutting the signal box windows was the final straw, this was a WOW and from now on we start to see more and more parts printed. Also notice the stone work where the water wheel was converted from a old under shot to over shoot. its these little bits that show time, and the old stable now with removed divider and car port. Calvin Streeting that was alot of carving etc.. and alto of not straigth buildings

so googleing Point rodding leed me up many a garden path and showed me i had to do some balasting etc or at least work out what colour, as the stone around here is Buff the gravel would be to applyed by hand dry and soaked in copydex, water, and washing up liquid so as not to upset the sound deadening foam, the rods where wills kits to start with placed on little matchstick beds to gain the height for track side all point's have rodds and all follow a simple plan route back to main signal box, whcih now had hand rails. mostly points rodding was made by using a card template down side of track, shoes/beds, this is then buried under the balast Calvin Streeting next back to town and dam silly rotation

So on the back edge i am placed a signal box on top of the entrance way this built by hand including cutting out sooo many 3mm square holes for windows.. Sorry some photos rotate its not easy to change here. The signal box interior was another wills kit present and hard to see any more but still there. this then leed onto me readding ALL about Point rodding etc as wanted that to look right, becuase its important part of the view from a train window Calvin Streeting