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On 26/01/2022 at 13:05, sb67 said:

Fantastic photo, love the detail on the brake van, you've captured the atmosphere of that.

It’s such a good photo. If you look really close someone’s scrawled ‘Albion’ on the end above the running boards. I’m guessing West Brom from the location.

It’s the kind of detail that’d look over done if you actually modelled it!

On 26/01/2022 at 13:05, sb67 said:

Fantastic photo, love the detail on the brake van, you've captured the atmosphere of that.

It’s such a good photo. If you look really close someone’s scrawled ‘Albion’ on the end above the running boards. I’m guessing West Brom from the location.

It’s the kind of detail that’d look over done if you actually modelled it!

19 hours ago, bradfordbuffer said:

Brill stock....wouldn't like to be the guard using the zto and wanting a couple of black nuggets for fire where there stored!

 

Thanks. You’d want to be clinging on tight!

Here’s the photo I got the idea from. Pretty much capture the whole run-down look I’m going for with the layout.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/invader1009/14980528404/in/gallery-91650295@N04-72157645459527451/

On a roll this evening! Some weathering and detailing on an engineers brake van, including coal for the guard’s stove. Some final rain streaking to the roof and frame dirt to chassis and it should be finished.

Some progress on the two OAA wagons; just a bit of final weathering and couplings to fit.

On 14/01/2022 at 06:15, sb67 said:

Looking very nice, what paints did you use? 

Primer and black under frames from Halfords rattle cans. The rest is various acrylics brushed on with a Tamiya No3 brush. Railmatch, Lifecolour and Vallejo are the main ones I use. 
 

Some more progress on my improved Hornby OAA wagons.

Buffers fitted (Lanarkshire Models), air pipes fitted (Replica Railways), first paint coat applied - one is in original railfreight finish with repainted ends, the other will be bauxite. Chassis and wheels given initial dry brush coat of frame dirt. 

3 hours ago, Simon Moore said:

Just gone from start to finish on this thread. What a lovely layout. The buildings are so impressive. 

Me & my wife had our honeymoon in Edinburgh last year & one of the photos of the pub reminded me of walking down past Haymarket towards Murrayfield. It's so typical of the structures around Edinburgh. 

 

I've been slowly collecting kits & bits to build my dream layout in EM, North Leith citadel. I did have the old Bob Rowlands layout of it & my plan is to do it how John Roxborough did it many moons ago in em.

 

Very nice layout I'm following the post with interest.

Sounds very interesting, it would make a great layout. 
Thanks

3 hours ago, sb67 said:

I'm just about to start refurbing some of the exact same wagons, I doubt I'll use them but those underframes look superb! Look forward to seeing these completed. 

They certainly are, just a shame most of the detail will be invisible once they’re on the track!

26 minutes ago, ColinK said:

Those chassis are really detailed. Alclad do a ‘primer with micro filler’ which I find very good for smoothing 3D prints.

That’s good to know, thanks.

Chassis primed and look even better. The striped layers in the printed plastic is barely visible.

Filling the old buffer holes with milliput (the Hornby ones are too low because the ride height was all wrong).

New project, a pair of old Hornby OAA wagons which were mine as a kid in the 80s. The bodies are pretty good but the chassis is terrible - complete with plastic wheels.

I ordered new 3D printed chassis for them from Shapeways. The detail is incredible but they are also incredibly fragile. It’s my first go with something 3D printed so I’ll see how it goes - they look fantastic but we’ll see how robust they are in use..

They even have separate brake callipers which you can fit if your eyesight and hand-eye coordination is better than mine.

1 hour ago, Graham R said:

Meh goodness! That’s Ma Mennie’s. I haven’t been inside it since the 1980s, something I should remedy perhaps once things lighten up a bit. A great pint as I recall. Did it not used to be painted a brownish colour?

 

Graham

Probably twenty years since I’ve been in. Was always painted green that I remember, I was at the art college there in the late nineties, early 2000s.
Was a while before I twigged that Mennie’s and The Speedwell were the same place!

On 14/12/2021 at 13:21, luckymucklebackit said:

 

Brilliant modelling, The Baltic is obviously a Free House, and as a minor addition I would add a transfer above the door indicating this.  For the benefit of the young/non-Scottish, most pubs in Scotland would have been owned by the brewery (so called tied houses) and the two main brewers in Scotland around this era would have been Tennant Caledonian (who made Tennants Lager) and Scotish and Newcastle (who made McEwans Export), so you would not have seen both of these signs ouside the one pub if it was a tied house.  There were a relatively small number of free houses and these were fiercely independant and proudly advertised their status outside the "shop" as they sold whatever beer they chose.  They were very popular with loyal patrons as they were percieved to serve good quality beer as slightly lower prices than the tied houses.

 

Jim

 

 

Thanks for the heads up, very informative. I was too young to be in pubs in the late eighties!

I took the signs from this establishment in Dundee - I wasn’t there till late nineties though. Don’t think it’s changed since then.

1 hour ago, Roddy Angus said:

Does this look familiar?  The house to the right used to be a shop and the "gastropub" used to be a real dockers bar.  Corner of Baltic Street and Elbe Street, South Leith near Edinburgh.

 

 

As I said before, your models just scream LEITH!

 

Best wishes

 

Roddy

Thanks. Certainly one of a few places I used as inspiration. Along with North Junction Street, Easter Road. Also Speedwell Bar in Dundee..

13 hours ago, bradfordbuffer said:

Does the baltic have a sticky wooden floor! Sad a smell of stale booze?....crisp modeling

Certainly does! The cigarette smoke hides the worst of the smells though.

It’s now a gastropub of course.

On 01/11/2021 at 07:57, Waverley47708 said:

As others have said, the building just screams out Edinburgh, excellent. 

 

Interested to see the modifications  to the buses.  I was aware the original model was of the less common smaller windows version but had not thought about converting them until now.

Thanks, yes the buses had every second upright removed from between the windows, then had to cut new glazing to shape and fit in. It was a hassle but probably worth the effort in the end. I also had to modify around the engine at the back. The Edinburgh ones seemed to have pillar type bits at each side of the lower back windows. Plasticard and putty took care of that. Expect EFE will release a model of these any time now!

There are etched manholes and utility covers.

It’s been about six months with the layout stored in the shed but finally got back to some model work today. 
Pavements and road surface primed and glued in with the backboard having been painted white.

1 hour ago, luckymucklebackit said:

Thanks Mark - PM sent

 

Found this surviving image on New Railway Modellers of Leith Baltic Street with Andrews pub sign (His is also a Tennant's Shop)

https://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=13639&start=540#p575179

 

I thought that there was something in the text that described how he illuminated it but I can't find it.

 

Jim

Aye, that’s absolutely stunning. Different level. The pub interior too. Wow!

1 hour ago, luckymucklebackit said:

Are these your own scratch build, or bought?  I wanted one for the pub on my tenament but couldn't find anything.

 

Jim

 

Hi Jim, I scratch built them. 
They’re cobbled together on photoshop from images found on google. Then scaled and printed onto sticky paper labels. The labels are stuck onto suitable wee rectangles of plastic.

I could send you a pdf of them if you PM me.

Mark

A couple of 80s Scottish pub signs for the tenement. They’re approx. 12 x 9mm.