outcastjack

This looks excellent so far, the concept is great and the modelling is really superb.

The front bit of some A-stock has started progressing.

Excellent work on these. Did you make them or are they a kit? I will at some point want to make a full train or two of them for my LU layout and scratch building them is taking me ages.

That answers my question from the other thread rather nicely!

Thank you for the how to, I will give it a try. On reflection my box would probably have worked better as a winter scene so I am slightly gutted I went for summer. With this Cakebox being pretty much done, the real question is, will there be a third one?

I certainly can't hope to match the quality in here but we are not going to get worse by trying!

Just wow, utterly stunning what did you use for the snow and how did you apply it (e.g. dust with hair spray then sprinkle?)

The dried riverbed is excellent! Great modelling.

The next meaningful bit of progress has been the cable bridge carrying wires from the terminal boxes over the running lines.

I think, this is fantastic, a real challenge to get something of that gauge top run nicely with a >20% difference in distance at the outside rail vs the inside one. Will you be trying to use normal stock or building something special to suit?

Surprisingly elusive chap isn't he?

I like where this is going, really looking forwards to seeing the engine start to go together in situ.

3rd and 4th rails in!

That last shot is stunning, I should learn to use some more advanced photographic equipment than a phone. I guess like everyone else I am excited to see what comes in phase 2. =D

Still awaiting conductor rails (I have a length of odd rail somewhere which might do) but i am really chuffed with how this is looking. Fortunately although LU isn't very well provided for, Peco do conductor rail chairs which will save a lot of effort in finishing this off!

I am still marvelling at the speed of this, in the time you built all of Carrog (and sold it) I only just about manged to do 4 or 5 square feet of field and woodland...

The thin coat seems to have worked pretty well but the impression of depth is poor (unsurprisingly given how thin I painted it on to avoid cracking). I am struggling to see what it offers over PVA other than a hugely inflated price at this point, although I may re-evaluate once I have applied a few more coats of the stuff. Whilst I waited for it to dry I painted the bridge and track bed.

Wow I really like this, I will be following with interest.

I have always used PVA before but picked up a bottle of "water magic" a few months back. I figured this would be the ideal project to try it out and so far failed miserably... I have stripped the stuff off and repainted the base and intend to give it another quick (this time very thin) wash and see how it goes from there.

Thank you for the nice comments, it is actually based on that bridge =D I think having the bridge on a diagonal with a half relief coach would have been better but i don't fancy revisiting it now... In other news I put the water down far too thick and it has cracked.

Lovely again. Good to see Winnie the Pooh getting involved.

My rower finally has a home. The boat has been glued down.

Following on from the comments earlier, I have purchased some mirror stickers from ebay for 99p, snail mail should allow me time to get the model ready for them before they arrive from China. I also did the corrugated edging for the canal today, I had intended to use DAS clay and mould it to shape but had trouble keeping the finish as sharp as i felt was needed. Fortunately I had some off cuts of corrugated roofing which was able to do the trick: I had also been having trouble with my foam-board base warping, I gave the bottom a wash of cheap paint thinned with water and that seems to have cured it.

These are really good ideas, thank you. I think rather than have the back scene continue round to the sides, I will mount the cut ends of the coach onto small sections of mirror. That should reflect the track and train giving an impression of greater depth. (hopefully)

The bridge structure is largely finished, just painting and detailing left for it And then onto track. However the big news is that a full length A stock car is 210mm long...