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    Hi Halsey, Cill is OO, 4mm/ft and sits on a window cill.  It's about 6ft by 1ft, with a 3ft fiddle shelf to the right hand side of the window.  Don't be fooled by the backgrounds, they aren't real, or rather they are!  The backboards to the layout are plain hardboard at present with the window reveals to each side.  I digitally replace this with local landscape images I've taken, some from the window above the layout.  

     

    The engineering staff, passengers and some footplate staff are Dapol with a few whitemetal figures from various suppliers.  Most footplate crew and guards are from Modelu, I intend to obtain more Modelu staff as time and finance permit. 

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    "How did you get the fireman to stand up?"

     

    Some of my figures are superglued to small oval pieces of plastic glazing material. The edges are sanded to be rounded so there are no 'prismatic' effects.  For figures placed on the ground careful choice of camera location makes the bases less noticeable (as with the Guard in this image). For footplate crew the base is usually enough to keep them upright (as with the Fireman in this image) but if not a small dab of tacky wax does the trick.  The driver is a whitemetal figure and his own weight keeps him on the seat but a blob of wax sometimes helps.

     

    Other figures have a small hole drilled into the sole of one of their feet and up their leg into which a length of staple is superglued.  As Cill is topped with cork flooring tiles these can just be pushed through the ground covering and into the cork in many places.  On the platform and hardstandings I've drilled several 0.5mm diameter holes into which the figures can be inserted.  From normal viewing distances they are invisible.

     

    Chris

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    If I remember correctly this was my first experiment with Johnson wax Klear floor polish applied by brush.  I didn't do the smokebox.  The whole lot was next covered with black gouache which I then cleaned off (probably with a cotton bud) except for the smokebox and rear of the tender.  This leaves a matt dirty finish on the uncleaned areas and in the corners.  I was going for the workworn but cared for 'shed favourite' look.

     

    I've just finished my third C class for Cill which will feature in the next few weeks, by contrast this one looks distinctly uncared for!

     

    Chris

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    Thanks Black5.  The layouts backscene is currently boringly plain unpainted hardboard and/or the window frame/reveal.  I digitally replace this background with locally taken landscapes, a few of them taken through the window above the layout.  Some consider this to be cheating, but as long as it aids the suspension of disbelief I can live with it.

     

    Chris

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