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19 minutes ago, RobinofLoxley said:

There's a very small blog I can't even remember the name I think it's Midland Misadventure. 

 

My loft space is very challenging nothing like a free space. Loft timber structure everywhere.

Just stumbled across your blog, that is quite a baseboard structure you’ve got going around all of those beams!  Super work.  Must have been very fiddly.

11 hours ago, Melangoose said:

Like the Station Running Board propped against the lamp post, has a real run down look about it.  Keep up the good work and I will look forward to your Video in due course.

Desperately need to get those arches airbrushed.  Been really bugging me that they’re still in Wills plasticised red!

10 hours ago, RobinofLoxley said:

Interesting to see this, especially the historical origins of the project, as a similar fictitious location concept is in my new layout, but being a large loft project the scope is different. 

I’d love a loft layout!  One day I hope to have the space to attempt one of the through stations on the Wolverhampton - Birmingham route.

You should start a thread if you haven’t already!  Dead keen to see your plans given your increased scope.

On 08/02/2021 at 16:20, pwr said:

 

 

I seem to have come to this layout a bit late but how are you producing those rivets in your plastikard? They look so real.

 

Paul R

Hi Paul - apologies, work and family life have been all encompassing recently and so i missed your message.

The white rivets are simply slaters plasticard rivet sheets cut out.  The black rivets that i'm working through at present are from Archers.  Both are an excellent products, but the Archers transfers allow for more flexibility even if they take an age to apply.

Finally some trains running...

A local service for Shrewsbury waits in platform 2.  The vans for the daily warehouse goods have arrived and are waiting to be marshalled in between passenger services.

Some footage of the Shrewsbury service departing.  By now the vans have been marshalled into the warehouse sidings.

12 hours ago, Liam_uk said:

I've just caught up with the full thread.

I originally found the layout from YouTube videos,  but I have really enjoyed seeing the layout developing.

 

Please keep up the good work, and I will be keeping up to date with the layout

Thanks, Liam.

It's been a while since I've posted a new vid, but as you'll see, I really wanted to make some progress on the layout buildings.  Hopefully I'll be able to do a running session soon.  I was keen to get some sprat and winkle couplings fitted and the un-couplers wired up so i could do a proper session, but that might have to wait a while.

Haven’t caught up with this thread for a while, but it’s looking great!  A lot of atmosphere created.

17 hours ago, danstercivicman said:

This looks great! 

Thanks Dan.  It’s slowly getting there.  I’m sure once work starts again in Jan the modelling will have to take a bit of a back seat.

By the way, full of admiration for your forthcoming Class 126 attempt.  I’ve often mused over the silver fox models (I’d love a class 120 for West Park).  Never had the bottle to give scratch building / kit bashing on stock a go.  Will be watching your efforts with anticipation (and hoping for a bit of inspiration).  Good luck.

The first section of the bridge is complete.  I couldn’t manage to do the station side as well as I ran out of styrene tee sections so had to order some more.  Probably a good excuse to leave West Park for a day or two and get on with some true scale DIY jobs around the house.

....or maybe I could get cracking on the warehouse, station or Great Western hotel!?

Todays activity, after giving the retaining walls a once over with the airbrush to get rid of any brush stroke marks, is to get to work on Waterloo Road bridge.

Hoping to finish it in Shell form this evening.  It might take a little longer to detail given the amount of rivet strips that need to be cut.

3 hours ago, 5 C said:

A locally built and liveried Guy Arab would certainly help place the model in the Wolverhampton area. There is a Roe bodied Corgi example currently on eBay although the price is ambitious compared to sold listings in the last couple of months (and there were a few).

 

A legitimate alternative might be a Midland Red D9. BMMO ran services in the Wolverhampton area and had a depot at Bilston Street then Dudley Road: http://midlandred.net/depots/index.php?depot=wn

 

Corgi D9s are readily available and can be bought for sensible money.

More bus help!  Much appreciated.  Hopefully i can find something based on the advice above for a reasonable price.

3 hours ago, Melangoose said:

The layout is coming on well.  With each set of pictures of your progress, more atmosphere is created.  
I am still thinking about retaining walls for the bridge on my home layout (you are putting me to shame).

Thanks, Nigel.  Being honest the retaining walls were something I was dreading doing.  Arches have not been my friend in the past, but setting the layout in engineers blue helps hide a few of the imperfections around the edges.

Retaining walls aside, I've not seen an update on Wyvern Road in a while.  How's progress?

2 hours ago, TerryD1471 said:

Congratulations and well done with the roof in particular. I shall be watching this thread with particular interest since I have lived in Wolverhampton longer than anywhere else (although not now.)

 

Whilst I love to see beautiful BCT buses in their primrose & prussian blue colours from my native Birmingham, I think it might be more appropriate if you were to have a yellow & green Guy Arab in Wolves colours. Britbus did them and I think there was a Roe bodied one available too. A destination blind for Whitmore Reans (service no. 13?) would make it perfect!

 

Keep up the good work!

Thanks Terry.  Appreciate the comments.  I knew in my heart the bus wasn’t quite right, but couldn’t find any decent research to point me in the right direction so thanks for the insights.

Having a quick scan it looks like the yellow and green Guy Arabs are a little difficult to come by, but hopefully eBay will be able to sort me out.  Any other insights along similar lines would be more than welcome!

Starting to mock up scenery on the embankment just to get a feel for what it might look like.  Had a good tidy up of the train room after Christmas to hopefully make it easier to get stuck into modelling.

A standard class 4 tank pulls away from West Park with a stopper service bound for Stafford.

15 hours ago, HeatonLodge40 said:

If I could redirect you to my thread in Heaton Lodge Junction see the video I did on static grass in the last 10 posts or so.

Basically matt varnish and fine sieved dirt transform the look of static grass..

Thanks - that’s pretty much the tactic I ended up employing.  Having your vid to hand was a great help though.  And HLJ!!!  What a layout by the way.

Almost enough to make me want to get involved in 7mm....almost 

4160 rolls in to platform 3 making light work of the single ex midland brake and parcels van.  The 9.16am arrival from Stourbridge via Wombourne would normally be in the hands of a pannier, which failed earlier that morning.

17 hours ago, Adrian Stevenson said:

John's tip re soil is a good one. That along with a spray over with Matt varnish will solve your problem.

 

Cheers, Ade.

thanks Ade.  I bought a can of this stuff and found that with the addition of a little weathering powder it’s worked a treat.  It’s also taken some of the shine off my platform surfaces too!  Amazing stuff.

1 hour ago, woodenhead said:

I really like how the platform ramp extends under the parapet and has the shadow cast - so reminiscent of many platform ends.

Thanks.  Aside from copying a couple of prototype locations it was designed to make the platforms feel longer and give more of an urban feel to the layout.