George Hudson

Evening sun, just for fun

Checked out the new house on weekend, there is a new dry 3mx5m shed/workshop with electricity connected so looks like I could consider re instating the rest of the station throat which I still have stored away. Have to think about dust but it could work if I lined the whole thing properly. Andrew

I'd look forward to seeing that. Funny how things appeal from further afield. Like you I have lived abroad and have developed an affection for German narrow gauge and light railways (Feldbahen: field railways). Just substitute schnapps for rum and rain for sun and you've got the same thing as in the West Indies!

Hot news, I have just agreed to buy a new house so hopefully Aldersgate can come out of the spare bedroom into something larger. Watch this space. Spoiler alert, will prob take months! Andrew

Hello all, I thought the large number of low relief structures which I had produced made the layout look rather flat and linear so I am "converting" a low relief model of the power station on Shoreditch High Street (adjacent to Liverpool Street Station in London) into something more substantial with a fictional rear elevation. It's a little odd to try to copy your own work and of course I couldn't remember where I got all the scraps of card or exactly which colours I had used so the front and back are hardly identical. Good job I am both the contractor and client.

The rmwebber was Brian D and here's his thread on the subject. Thanks Mr D http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/74991-brick-arch-retaining-wall/

Whilst recognising that self praise is absolutely no recommendation I was reasonably satisfied with this retaining wall as a gap filler. The real praise goes to the RM Webber who generously uploaded the plans. Andrew

Am working on the cobbled area in front of the station hotel and offices. I couldn't find plastic cobbles anywhere so have used some card embossed stones of German origin (don't know which manufacturer). I photocopied the original sheets and pasted them on a card base with paper layers underneath to give look of a camber and general derelict unevenness due to post war underinvestment in infrastructure. I have also cut out drains and overlaid areas of cobbles to provide further unevenness. The whole thing probably needs a wash of dilute black/grey to tone it down. The iPhone camera is quite kind to my modelling but the colours look better in real life! Andrew

I was inspired today by the excellent Chelmsford & District MRC exhibition* to begin work on the roof on my current work in progress. Here's a quick shot of how far I got. *(Thanks to Ian for letting me backstage at Warren Lane.) This is not where they will be finally but look quite good here! Andrew

Thanks to everyone for the thumbs. It's great to have people interested in what I am doing even though it seems to take forever. Andrew

One last shot.

…all windows in and stonework painted…phew I'm sorry about the poor photos, still you get the idea. ….as ever for those showing interest in my project, many thanks Andrew 2014-09-28 two.tiff

OOPS A CORRECTION AND APOLOGY It was CHUBBER who posted the use of lables for windows. Sorry, it was late.

I am attaching some shots of window frame building. Mostly based on Stubby's sticky lable method (see elsewhere in this forum, if there was a Nobel Prize for modelling inventions, he'd have it). Top halves of sash windows on piece of packaging cut off before installation glueing on back, checking the front each time of course the masking tape strip is temporary to ensure all the sashes are in line A strip of material at the bottom of each window keeps the bottom sash firmly behind and parallel final version with top and bottom sashes hope that's of some help! Andrew

Being driven to drink, well I was sort of there already. 08 percent.tiff

But I didn't say how many days :-)

here's a sneak at my old school methods! God bless scale scenes and photocopiers.

I'd love to say there is but no progress at all. Perhaps when everyone (including Mrs GH) goes back to uni/school I will get some headroom to build the rest of the boards. 30 mins per day on the buildings has been my lot recently! Thanks to everyone for the encouragement. Andrew

some progress on the brickwork, this is all done by traditional method: I must upgrade to adobe

yes, Chelmsford has a cathedral, unfortunately it shrank in the wash.

Just to show I am still in the land of the living. Some progress...but that's a lot of flaming windows!! (sorry for poor pic)

Making a start but that's a lot of windows!

Quick update for those kind enough to take an interest. There's a few man weeks of work to go but this shows what I am aiming at.

Something else on drawing board........... .......amazing, I have invented cut and paste I find this easier than trying to reproduce the same feature multiple times. One day I will learn to do it on Adobe or similar!