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Just resurrecting this thread with a photo of a mock up of the Goods Shed. It sits here beside a Slaters MR 8T open on Peco O Gauge track. So, mocking this up raised a couple of questions, first and foremost was how do my little humans get inside it?! Both doors are sliding doors and raised up to allow ease of loading/unloading of railway and road vehicles alike, they also seem to lack any obvious door furniture or trace thereof that might suggest that they could be secured from the outside. There doesn't appear to be any trace of steps up to the door on the gable end so I think there must have been an "office" door to the rear gable end which I have not been able to see? The "vents" mentioned by @DGO in the message above appear on closer examination of my photographs to be strips of wood that would allow signage to be mounted, it's a bit messy so I suspect an LNER or BR addition. Also re-examining the photos I took it is obvious that the shed was not directly at the platform edge but set back slightly See the large yellow circle, that large piece of dressed stone looks like it would form the corner of the platform. I'm going to mock up a coloured version showing the roof and roof lights that can be seen in a photograph in North Eastern Railway Architecture Vol 3. p107. Looking at that photograph the "rail-side" door (small yellow ring) is ajar and I can clearly see daylight through it. The photographer (author?) is standing to the left of my position. Is that the "office door"? However, the building in this photograph is in some ways in a worse state of repair than in my photos as there are several of the horizontal planks missing or dislodged allowing a view of the interior framing.

Hi I find this paint conversion site quite useful. Modelshade Paint Conversion Chart This is looking at equivalents of Humbrol 20 which is a pretty good match for Crimson Lake I would be surprised if you can't find a decent match in the Vallejo range! With all these red colours they are quite translucent so you need to try different undercoats/primers to get the right effect. Try a sample over white, grey and red oxide to see the difference. I believe that red oxide would be the best option.

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Absolutely. I did take quite a few shots whilst I was there. I didn't want to flood this thread with pictures. I should add that the guys there could not have been more friendly and informative. Fascinating to see her/him/it(?) at this stage of the build. I am told that they hope to have the boiler delivered and installed later this year. If you are in the vicinity pop in when they are open

Popped in today for a look at the progress on 2007 and took a few pictures... Not a common view of a steam locomotive! Looking from the footplate into the back of the smokebox Nuts!

An extraordinary achievement. I hope to see it "in the flesh" some day.

I saved this magazine until Sunday morning and with a cup of freshly brewed coffee and a biscuit (or two) and thoroughly enjoyed it. The article on Moretonhampstead is superb. 2mm really can be the "Artist's scale". I could imagine looking at that layout with a recording of birdsong and not even wanting to see a train move. The article itself is the perfect accompaniment and so well written. I confess that the article on mechanical interlocking might have been written in ancient Aramaic for all the understanding I could glean from it! Nothing wrong with the article, just way above my head! It wouldn't be a great issue of MRJ without it though. Thank you to all involved.

Yes, they. I just thought the paper smelt and felt different. One point from the magazine. One of the letters (Geoff Kent) quotes the use of "scraper cutters" from a company called "Essdee". He lists the postcode as DY117SY and guesses it is a Derby postcode. I used to work for the Post Office in Operations so knew it wasn't Derby (DE) so I popped the postcode into Google maps and lo and behold Essdee exists in Kidderminster! They also have a website and sell via Am*z*n too. Just thought I'd share.

Loved the feature in MRJ and put a link to this thread in the magazine thread. Any chance of some video of the layout?

Rosehearty has to be one of my favourite ever layouts, just fabulous. The sort of layout that I would love to have and in 7mm with sound! I've just found the thread on here about it to read too! Layout Topics - Rosehearty On a more prosaic note, have they changed the printer/paper used? The magazine felt and smelt different, but it might just be that it is the first time I've picked it up from Smiffs in 18 months or so!

Bought the only copy on the shelf in Smiffs Darlington this morning. First time this year I have managed to get a copy over the counter and not via Her Majesty's Mail Service. That's my evening sorted with a nice bottle of rum and assorted mixers to help me "relax"

Thanks for the kind offer, I have worked my way round the problem by a combination of home printed decals and hand drawing.

I used to work for the Post Office and from a UK point of view all you have to do is stick a Customs Declaration on the package describing what is inside it and state specifically that the item is a gift. Obviously things have now changed in the EU but on the UK Government website they say that gifts can be sent between individuals but not from companies. Of course it might be that the Dutch authorities have rules for incoming goods but it seems to me that you should be able to get a "friend" to purchase the item for you and "gift" it to you. It works both ways, I wanted to buy some decals from a Polish manufacturer but they now have a huge minimum purchase rule. I want to rant about the stupidity of this but, this is not the place.

Thanks to Andy I have now seen a photograph of the other side of the shed when it was covered in slates rather than corrugated iron and it shows that there was a roof light which I guess is logical the Railway Company would rather that their employees could see while they work even in pre Health and Safety days! The photograph (which is probably copyright given it is in the NERA book shows that the glazing is simply two sheets of glass with the upper overlaying the lower in the frame per wooden frame (6 pieces of glass total)

Chaos Black is a a product of Games Workshop and is their black primer (or was last time I used it) GW Primers (they do quite a few colours now it seems!)

From looking at photographs I think it depends on how recently the locomotive has been painted. On a recently out-shopped loco the black seems to take on a chocolate brown hue, I suspect this is a function of heat on the paint and any oil on the area, I think I would try a glaze of a translucent brown over the black. On a muckier more aged loco the predominant colour is a dark rust colour and dry and crusty looking so perhaps using a powdered pigment close to Burnt Sienna.

Another vote for W&N Galeria, I don't even think you need to airbrush it. It is very "runny" but applied with a soft flat brush I've never had a problem with brush marks just make sure you get a thin coat so no pooling. Might need two coats but dries perfectly clear with no colour distortion and I have models that must be ten years old and no hint of yellowing. Maybe the very slightest hint of satin like an unglazed porcelain? Careful though, the product illustrated by the esteemed Mr 101 is a Matt Medium for adding to pigment, you need the Matt Varnish in the same yellow themed packaging. They also do a slightly more expensive "Professional" product which I have not tried but promises to be better...

Who let the cats have this thread to themselves? I'll be right on it hooman, just as soon as I finish this snooze...

Depends what scale you are modelling. I would simply use a Polyfilla type filler and add some sand to give it a textured finish and acrylic paint to get a warm mid grey colour (this is useful if you later chip the filler it doesn't show up bright white), then weather with washes, drybrushing and powders. Don't forget lichen spots and mosses.

Not sure why the software (or possibly me) has put the drawing in twice? Ho hum.

With thanks to everyone who helped point me on the way, here is my drawing... A few points of explanation I have not shown the downcomer on both sides of the end views though obviously they should be there. The rear end with no door has the bargeboards left as lines to show the structure behind them. I drawing is not scaled but there is a small scale so that it can be printed in 7mm or whatever you need by tinkering with your printer settings. It's an attractive little building and usefully small as a prototype for a small layout. As you can see from the photos above the area under the two rows of bricks are fandom stonework. My hypothesis is that local contractors built a base but this had to be raised to meet the requirements of loading by railway construction when the building was to be erected so two rows of bricks were used to raise the structure to the required height (perhaps fanciful!) I noticed that you can see the remains of the last coat (or perhaps the first, if the rest has weathered off) of paint, a buff upper and a reddish lower half. I guess the building would have been painted throughout its working life but not since. Does anyone know what colour this would have been painted by the NER? From a quick glance in my NER Record I think it would have been similar colours (BR would be similar but I think LNER would have been a pale green lower half?) From drawing the building up in LibreCAD I found that the wooden planks are indeed 6in as this produced the correct roof pitch of about 35 degrees, with this established I calculated that the slates on the porch must have been 9in wide. This seems to be an unusual size known as "Viscountess" (18x9in). The top row have been turned on their sides just to confuse matters! Comparing it with the standard loading gauge and it looks about right. If it is of use to anyone I can provide the .dwg file for CAD use.

Thanks, 9in does look more likely. I did take a square on shot Good shout on the corrugated sheets on the roof. I thought I had taken loads of photographs but when you get back to base there is always "one missing" from what you would like in this case a good shot of the corrugated roof. Ah well it is a place I can visit easily so I might try to get a better shot next time I'm passing! Would a standard sheet of Corrugate Iron be 3ft wide by 6ft? I see that modern items are listed as 990mm so I guess that is 3ft. This photograph shows the relationship of the Goods facilities to the passenger How tall is a modern sheep? Actually, I think a modern sheep is roughly 1m at the shoulder which would tally with your observation that these are 9in planks not 6. Thanks Shaun. The two buildings both appear on the OS map and appear, with the exception of the roof to share construction methods. The Station buildings are now a private home but much altered, only the nearest end gable looks to be original and the occupier is plainly something of a railway enthusiast as that is a reproduction of a slotted post signal (though plainly not original!). The additional building with the circular window is a modern addition as, as far as I can tell, is pretty much everything else. This shot does give you an idea of how beautiful this are is, probably the least "touristy" of the Northern Dales, just don't tell anyone please. I like it like that!

I'm looking for some tips on scaling from photos. Romaldkirk was a small wayside station in Teesdale, this building is still extant but the field it is in is clearly marked "Private" so I honoured that, though hopping over/through the gate would have been very easy! There didn't seem to be anyone about to seek permission from. I have drawn on in crude orange where the siding would have been. I have other photographs if anyone is interested and will share any drawing I prepare on here as it is a very attractive small Goods Shed for a rural NER/LNER/BRNE layout. The roof would have been slate and indeed the other side still is. A view of the Good Station area, oddly the passenger facilities were on the other side of the cutting which can be seen at the left of this photograph behind the other building (which also appears on the OS maps from late C19th to early C20th This "side by side" from the NLS website shows the OS six-inch 1888-1913 map alongside a modern satellite image with the building highlighted in yellow on both maps. Obviously the platform height would have been standard but the bottom of the platform is obscured now by weeds/grass/rubble. Would the door have been a "standard" height? I guess the planks might be 6inch with an overlap? Perhaps I can scale from the course of bricks at the base at least to give me a scale for the wooden planking? Any tips gratefully received.

Bill Fawcett's book North Eastern Railway Architecture: Volume 1 has some information on the Wear Valley Railway (inc. Wolsingham). The architect was John Middleton of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which at the time of construction was a separate entity from the NER. His comment on Goods provision for the line is this: That description doesn't seem to match the building shown on the old OS maps so it may have been replaced with a more standard NER type structure in later years? I'm awaiting the delivery of my copy of volume three of this learned treatise but Wolsingham is not mentioned in Volume 2!

Just had a quick looksie at the webcam to see 825 departing towards the shed (I'm guessing) Thanks for explaining what was going on.