ManofKent

Thanks - I've ordered the London one and the Eastern one, but struggling to find the South one listed as available anywhere.

Thanks - I've got a set of insulfrog ones I can use to draw a template from (no printer!). I was thinking of using a simple pine shelf, but having used 10mm Foamex for the Cakebox challenge and seen how rigid it is I'm tempted to use that again, with strips of the same thickness bracing it. Lightweight and portable enough to bring downstairs from the corner of the home office. I've ordered a couple of south based industrial railway picture books for ideas (whilst my wife might disagree - you can't have too many railway books). I'm not planning on reproducing an exact model of a prototype but I'd like it to look plausible. There's less industry in Kent today, but I grew up with coalfields, quarries, paper mills etc.

It looks quite a substantial site from the video - bigger than Harvey's down in Lewes which is the only Bradford designed brewery I've been round. Richard

Thanks No cassette - I want it self-contained. I might need to move the first point slightly, but it only needs to allow an unaccompanied Ioco to swap from the shed branch to the sidings. I'm hoping the Peckett and Ruston cope with the Ys without stalling... I looked at the 3-way option but if I'm keeping it as shunting puzzle I need to restrict the length of the sidings (and headshunt) anyway (it does raise the question of whether a two wagon siding looks plausible though...).

Thanks - I think getting a board and playing full size might be best . It's effectively tiny single loco operation, probably with five short open wagons. I need to think more about what industry it represents and how urban the setting is for whether to go ballast / inset or a mix. Richard

I got distracted from Killinish Pier by the cakebox challenge, and revisiting it there's a couple of layout issues I need to resolve that will need a ponder. It's far from abandoned, but put aside for the moment. The cakebox challenge also made me realise how much I need to practice modelling techniques, so I thought I'd do something small scale first. About the only space I can think of is an alcove approx 840mm long and 220mm deep so small... I acquired a Peckett a while back and just got tempted by a Ruston 48ds another member had for sale so a small industrial layout seemed like a good place to play. Mucking about in AnyRail - I came up with the following - essentially a 3,2,2 simplified inglenook at the top with a switchback giving access to a tiny shed and fueling point. Too much in a small space or doable? The corner would be tunnel/bridge scenic blocker, brown box some simple representation of appropriate industry e.g. aggregate piles, stacked timber or whatever I go with. Purple line very low wall fence . Thoughts appreciated.

I'd imagine that the ROD would have requisitioned wagons from multiple pre-grouping companies, but SE&CR would probably be my choice to match the locomotives origins.

This is a useful site for photos on existing and closed breweries: http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cobbold_%26_Co._Ltd There's an 'urban explorer' video of the derelict Tolly Cobbold Brewery I'm assuming you're just going to model a small part of a brewery with the rest implied as off scene?

If you're including a Brewery Complex don't forget real elephants: http://www.dover-kent.com/breweries/fremlins-brewery-maidstone.html Well one of Faversham's had real elephants at one point (it could be the Maidstone Brewery, but it looks like the Faversham site to be).

The weathering looks good and realistic- you've avoided getting too carried away.

Hi Steve, The Faversham Quay branch curved in through what is now a shipyard to the left of the large brick built building, with a timber loading siding where the boats are (crane, and piles and piles of timber). The line curved round the brick warehouse and in front of the custom house, before running along in front of the black timber warehouses, eventually to coal yards (no trace remains of these). There are photos of the individual warehouses on geograph (a great place to get lost if you've not used it) https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3212065 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3212076 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3014314 Neither of Faversham's large Breweries had their own rail sidings oddly. Shepherd Neame's is still in operation and is a wonderful mix of buildings, but probably a mess to model, whilst the George Rigden's building became Fremlins and got caught in Whitbread's tour of destruction (although most of the buildings show their brewery origins clearly).

I'm enjoying following this. If you're wanting any photos of Faversham Standard Quay as is I'll happily pop across the creek and take some. The buildings are tarted up but effectively unchanged. There are a few photos of it in operational days in the Middleton Press book.

This project looks fascinating - I look forward to seeing it develop.

You've probably got a day or two's grace...

I don't know what state I'll be in tomorrow - just had my first jab this afternoon. Hoping I'm not too woozy!

All done photos taken, words written etc. There's the odd thing I'd have done differently with the benefit of hindsight, but apart from a small shrub/tree becoming a bramble patch, mainly to avoid view blocking the finished model matches my sketch pretty closely. I've fulfilled my person aim to produce a creditable model that I'm pretty happy with. Yes there is room for improvement, but it's my first model since I was 15 and it's 35yrs on... The tiny size really does force you to fully consider composition and space - good lessons for all of us. Mostly though I've enjoyed seeing other people's very different takes on the same challenge - I've learnt as much from following other threads as I have from attempting my own creation. Now the dilemma... Do I get back to the 'main project' a massive 3ft by 18" or do I try something in between first... Oh, and a confession - train operation doesn't particularly interest me - modelling does and I like railways - I just don't have a great interest in operation. Thanks all.

Pen down, paper upside down on the desk. Just to check - I haven't missed where and how to submit article and photos? Richard

I spent a bit of time touching up painting today and accidentally found out some thing useful... As my backscene is effectively structural I'd installed and painted it early. Not being any great artist and it only being a small piece I'd just given it a spray with cheap auto acrylic (Ford Bermuda light blue). I'd got a few marks on it from subsequent modelling and masking those areas off for a re-spray was impractical so I sprayed some paint into a plastic tray and quickly applied by brush. The finish applying by brush and the tone was of course subtly different. At first I was annoyed but then I realized that I could dab patches with a sponge and add a very subtle tonal variation to the backscene. It may be too subtle to show on camera when I take the photos, but does add a degree of realism in real life.

Great photos, you're going to have fun choosing your entries! Now full size layout even a modest 'Christmas Tree Box' size one would be a sight to see. I'd love to see you develop this from interior to exterior.

That backdrop captures the real view beautifully.

200 words written - not an easy part of the challenge for someone who has a tendency towards verbosity

I thought I was done bar gluing a few bits in place, but I had another look at the cobbles/sets and decided they were too uniform in colour... So I spent a happy time individually painting them. Then I decided they were now too contrasty, so applied a brown wash. Then I decided it was too brown toned, so went over with grey weathering powder, gently wiping the top surface cleanish. I think it looks better, but this led on to deciding the window frames were too white and the black boarding too black... Oh and the brickwork didn't have enough colour variation. It's a good thing April is a long way off...

I'm enjoying watching this develop. What paint are you using for the buildings? That looks a good match for duckfoot.

Finally named and a sign made! The cats have kindly ensured that I've had time to do an hour or two's model making before work by waking me up around four in the morning - obviously for my benefit not for an extra breakfast, so they get the dubious honour of the name. I've not currently got a printer so the sign was constructed the old fashioned way - wood strips given a thin coat of white paint. The red letters are waterslide, the black dry rub (Decadry - very much like the much missed Letraset). The cat silhouettes are waterslide nail transfers - a little thick and glossy but you can buy assorted packs for next to nothing - they're a handy size (and you can decorate your nails too!). All covered in a coat of matt acrylic artists binder with a thin was of off-yellow paint and framed by more stripwood. I'm aiming at 1950 ish for the model period and wanted the sign to look like it had been up a while. I think it fits the period.

Thanks - although having seen some of what the Wargaming crowd manage with figures barely any larger I know I've got a long way to go.