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    Will Vale

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    I believe you can get rivets as transfers! Check out one of Pugsleys posts/blogs - I can't remember what he was using them for - they were an American product I think?

     

    However - even without the rivets it looks superb! Well worth the effort. You're making me look like a slacker - I keep putting off my road overbridge and now I'm thinking of the next layout I'm struggling with motivation. This has certainly helped Will, thanks for sharing! :)

    Will Vale

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    Will I echo Jon's comment - a lovely blog entry and well illustrated in your photographs as well.

    I get really frustrated with styrene - even though it's my default building material - it just seems to easy to distort or warp and often the material, if not handled carefully can end up looking too chunky. I've been impressed by the chap who runs Scalescenes blog on his own layout - and you've achieved similarly realistic results here - so I suspect that in this scale the relief of bricks is so negligible that printed flat textures actually work better then trying to recreate that in plastic or metal (or anything else).

     

    I've got a metal clad brick based shed to build, and a brick office to build at some point for Meadow Lane - I'm wondering now about using textures from Scalescenes to do the brick parts at the very least.

     

    Oh and finally, layout is coming on very nicely! :)

    kazer

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    I'd think if anything it would work better the other way around. The blog isn't like a Facebook or Twitter feed, it's a place to document a longer entry on progress, thinking or anything else relevant to your layout... whereas a Forum thread is perfect for adding quick updates that you don't feel warrants a complete blog post. To attract people to have read I'd encourage you to write as if doing a magazine article or something - so you'd use punctuation, capital letters and avoid shorthand. It puts a lot of older readers off if used on the internet rather than just your mobile phone :)

     

    I had a quick look at your thread, it looks like you're enjoying modelling and have got a good roundy roundy on the go - I'm sure there are other modellers who'd appreciate to here how your layout develops so keep posting even if you're not always getting replies :)

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    James Hilton

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    Thanks guys - the loco was done over a 18 months ago for the article in Model Rail - it's one of my favourite. I've got some more stuff on the workbench (a Heljan 58 and Bachmann 66) that will start to make an appearance on here as I get more work done over the dark winter nights when the garage is to cold to work on the layout.

     

    Jon - the static grass mats from International Models, Mininatur by Silflor, are expensive. I used 'Spring' but now I'd use Winter I suspect as this green is very vivid.

    What products and process were you using on your test plank? I found that using Woodland Scenics fine and medium turf as a base glued down with dilute PVA/scenic cement and then when dry applying Mininatur static grass (4 and 6mm fibres) using a puffer bottle and strong hairspray gave good results.

     

    The key with the puffer bottle is not to put to many fibres in at a time - and to alternate between 'shaking' and 'puffing' action. It takes a few coats of fibres / hairspray / fibes / hairspray to get a good coverage, and the Woodland Scenics fibre underneath gives an uneven texture which helps give the fibres some undulation and less uniformity.

     

    Cheers!

    Jon020

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    Jon - the images are taking a long time to load but the ones that have honestly look superb. You should be really chuffed with this - and if you can produce a layout with trackwork finished to this quality you're onto a winner. Glad it's been enjoyable too and I look forward to seeing you're experiements with greenery!

     

    I must also say although I'm not an ECML fan, especially Deltics, these do look superb and certainly capture the end of an era look I remember from library books as a child full of blue diesels :)

    The Fatadder

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    Is the Virgin grey the same as Intercity dark grey? If so I always remember that Lima had it really dark and it never matched up to the Precision shade... wonder if Vitrains fell into the same trap? The finish looks excellent on the 47s though! Shame about the issues you've had with the 37 and now finding out its modelled out of period - it's definitely worth finishing Rich, it looks great so far, but then perhaps sell it on and start again? The second attempt at something is usually better than the first as well :)

    DaveArkley

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    Ah a fantastic book the Martyn Welch one! I've a well thumbed copy as well and it really improved my weathering when I first got it about 10 years ago :) So armed with that is armed indeed!

     

    I'd say these look a brilliant start. I suspect some transfers would finish them off, then a touch of weathering to tone them in and seal with matt varnish - especially important if any of your finish has become shiny with handling if you're trying to depict a work worn wagon.

     

    You don't say what techniques and materials you have used - if you haven't got some MIG weathering powders I'd definitely recommend the Europe Dust and Black Smoke ones for adding variation in underframes and tonal shadows - a lot quicker and easier once the base coat of gunge is on then working with washes.

     

    I find if you bring all the techniques together, in moderation, and closely observe prototype photos for both colour and weathering pattern then you can't go far wrong. A good start and I look forward to seeing your next item :)

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