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4 hours ago, south_tyne said:

 

Leighton Buzzard inspired at a guess? 

4 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Welcome back Ian, good to hear from you. Sorry to hear about the age-related health issues, your approach sounds wise and well-considered, I am taking notes for future use.

 

I like that track plan. Any particular reason for the name, Sand Lines? 

 

 

 

 

First - thanks for all the supporting comments folks.  Glad to be back!

Yep, South Tyne hit it in one!  Whilst it will do as a working title, I'm going to have to put my thinking hat on...  I've paid something of a homage to the Lieghton Buzzard line by naming the woeks unit as 'Rollright Works'.  They of course are at 'Stonehenge Works'...

Cheers all!

Regards

Ian

Well done Pete - and a credit to the Association.  Are you entering 'Thurso' in the 'Diamond Jubilee Challenge'??

Regards

Ian

VERY nicely done!

I thought that you'd been a bit quiet lately ! Nice work there, your client should be well pleased.

Cheers Nick -

He's certainly happier with the progress now!

Ahh - you've discovered something that most modellers take a lifetime to find - 'A man's gotta know his limitations'!

Regards

Ian

Hi & welcome!  We're a pretty friendly bunch here - so expect nothing but helpful comment.  However, if you have a 'how to' query, I suggest you look at the 'Modellers Questions' forum - where people are just as helpful, and the response is likely to be quicker!

Happy modelling,

Ian

Ian

Last time I was in Freshwater (many moons ago now) the signal cabin was doing duty as a bus-stop in the village?

Regards

Another Ian

I think the V-irons are W-irons with the angled side pieces removed leaving just the verticals supporting the axle boxes.

Cheers Dave -

I *think* thats how I read it!

Hi Iain, just been catching up with the signal box, looks good. Those platsruct steps are a very tempting "cheat", think I might get some too - thanks for the tip. 

A just repayment for ideas I've 'nicked' from you ! ;-)

Hi Mikkel --

Thanks for that.  We're still trying to decide whether they should be loaded or empty!  More prosaicaly - they need another coat of varnish, and the roofs need painting etc.

I should have mentioned having to scratchbuild the roof supports.  I hate saggy roofs!

Regards

Ian

Now you have buildings in as 'placeholders' - give scratchbuilding a try.  Start with a card mock-up (cheap or free depending on the source!) then as your skills develop, move to other materials.  The most important tools are 1)a good blade (I always use a scalpel - a million surgeons cannot be wrong!) b) a true straightedge in steel.  I have two regulars, a 6", and a foot-long.  c)Steel set-squares. Buildings are 'normally' square, and apertures are always 'square' to the building.  Again, have at least two.  A small one for detailed work and a larger one for 'truing' the material you work from.  Do NOT trust the material provider to have cut THEIR corners square!

You willfind it SO much more satisfying to have an ACCURATE model of a prototype that YOU built...

Sorry if I'm in 'egg-sucking mode'!

Regards

Ian

Hi Mikkel -

We've not actually modelled Burghclere - the goods lock-up (cannot really call it a 'Goods shed' is a new addition - we needed a short end board to turn the layout from a 'through station' to a terminus (makes it about 3m shorter, so more attractive to some exhibition managers.  Mostly it provides 'headshunts' for the platform roads - but one road is available for some basic goods facilities.

As I'm also a big fan of the DN&S, 'Burghclere was an ideal choice - particularly as the Karau,Parsons & Robertson book has a (2mm scale) drawing!

Funnily enough, I started a model of the station (complete with limekilns) in 'EM' many years ago.  House-move meant no room for it  so I switched to 'N Scale U.S.!  What goes around comes around...

I'm half-way through drawing up the building, complete with 'proper' brickwork - should be far enough advanced to laser-cut them over the weekend.  I can get on & finish the LBSC wagons at the same time!

Regards

Ian

Hi Ian, I'm very envious about those wagons! Hope you'll find time for a few close-ups when they're done?

 

I've been following your exploits (and others') with the laser cutter. Amazing things happening in the hobby at the moment, this and the cameo cutters and 3D printing. There's that learning curve though, but thankfully some of you are paving the way for us timid ones. Thanks for that!

Hi Mikkel -

Close ups to follow - the wagons still need some more paint added, but they should be complete by the weekend (although there's no rush - the owner is currently en route to Austria for a fortnight!).  IIRC the wagons are from '5&9 Models' - and are suitable for the period 1860-1910.  The move to the 'LBSC' livery took place in the 1890s - so might well have been seen alongside your 'red' GWR wagons!

With regard to the laser cutter - I'm merely follwing in the footsteps of giants - altho8ugh more will appear here as I have to build a goods facility for the Club layout (based on the small lock-up fascility at Burghclere on the DN&S line.)

Regards

Ian

Nice progress Mikkel - and congratulations on the 'BRM' entry.  Your fame is spreading wider and well-deserved!

Regards

Ian

Most interesting. I will be keen to see how this turns out - particularly the station building. The Bepton Road bridge was notoriously weak (it was strengthened when Petersfield trains started running into the old LBSCR station in the 20s)...essentially all it could handle was a single wagon or so. I did not realise it was a girder bridge - just assumed it was an arch (don't believe I have seen any pictures of it).

Hi Claude

My client had the station building made by another modeller (although I re-did the doors

& windows later and made the canopy). The model was constructed from a single 'artists

impression', the only view available! I modelled the bridge according to the information given to me by the client...

Hi Geoff

I picked up your comment about photos. If you can connect your camera to the computer,

it's not too difficult. Windoze will identify that it's connected, and if you've got a suitable

image handling program (most digital cameras have one in the package) it will ask you if you want

to use it. When you're ready to copy the images, designate a folder that you can remember! Dont

just shove them in 'my pictures' - you'll never find them again!

The next part is trickier. Most cameras save the image in a file anything up to 25 mb - and

RMweb will only let you load file up to 1mb!

So you need to downsize... The program that came with your camera MAY do this, and I think windows

imaging programs do it as well. I use a very old version of 'Paintshop Pro'.

Whichever program you use, select an image and look along the various routines on the top row

- one of them should have something like 'resize'. Click on that, and it will give you various

options - usually as a percentage. This is really 'horses for courses' and trial and error!

Having got the right(ish) size, save it under another name - something indicative - and

preferably in a new folder (that way you won't accidentally try to upload a 'full fat image!)

If you're taking a lot, its an idea to use as sequential numbering sequence and after each uploading

session pick it up where you left off, i.e. the first image might be a track plan - becomes

'01-trackplan.jpg' followed by '02-tracklaying.jpg' etc.

Uploading to RMWeb is easy - at the bottom of your entry-space is a 'attach file' block. Click

on it and it will ask you where the file is. point it at the relevant folder, select the first

image, 'okay' it in the dropdown menu and then when it shows up in the blog-space click 'select

this file'. It then moves into the blog-space with an option to 'attach this file'. At the relevant

point in you text, click that, and a line of text (NOT the image) appears in the script.

When you've finished, click 'publish' and THEN the image appears!

It sounds complicated and 'techy' but once you've done it a few times you'll soon get the hang

of it. The 'attach file' bit is quite clever - it remembers which folder you last uplaoded from

and, if you don't manually add the images, it will do so automattically at the end of the post!

Hope this is not too scary!

Regards

Ian

Another fan of 'Vallejo' acrylics! I've ben using 'em for a couple of years now. Brilliant!

Hi Mikkel - a bit late coming to the party - but fascinated as ever! Those wagons look brilliant in the oxide livery!

Hi Andy & Mikkel - Thanks for the compliments chaps.! I've actually got a '56xx' (couldn't

INITIALLY) find a '57xx')ready to go - trouble is it's a bit big for the 'Challenge', but it

will doubtless appear on the 'home'operating sessions. Be nice to see it trundling through on a

short(-ish) coal train from further up the valley! The '57xx' was recently purchased second-

hand -and because of that is well run-in and a great little runner. Shame about the livery!

Nice work Job - my edition of Chris's book is VERY well thumbed!

Hi Mikkel -

The bridge actually survived intact in that location until the mid-90's - when as part

of a canal-widening programme it was removed and unceremoniously dumped in a nearby field..

The replacement bridge looks so similar it does catch out the unwary tourist!

Fortunately the original was salvaged for posterity and now forms the centre-piece of a museum nearby.

So far as working on 'Midhurst' goes, the client has now become much more a friend.

I obviously still have to make a living, but he does get the advantage of 'mates rates'!

Take care,

Ian

Hi Gerry - we had one in the nick too. Drive in, twist the sterring-wheel and the car spun

itself to (approximately) face the exit. Unless there was a 'Cavalier' in the way...

My client already has the canopy supports, and the valancing too from the same source. Just got to make it now!

Hi Gerry

Midhurst - the ORIGINAL station - gone by 1865 (?)

Great article Mikkel - but without being a 'killjoy' have you seen the 'Coopercraft' kit for the 1-plank wagon?  Comes complete & doesn't need a mallet!

Regards

Ian