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Over the weekend Angus did indeed take delivery of a forklift as well as some other building material, wood stacks, some corrugated sheets and other bits and pieces. So they are ready for business. As it was the weekend whilst out train spotting at the station EWS was seen to be doing some track work. 37419 was in charge of the ballast train 66072 was in charge of the spoils and scrap train. Now for a question. I would like to have a station entrance on the lower level for the upper station. This area is going to be covered by brick from the scalescenes retaining wall and then I was going to build a station entrance in the area between the buildings. Is there some prototype for this out there? If so pictures please. Thank you Stephen

That really is coming on nicely.

As i am "temporailly" unemployed there has been some good modeling time. The tunnel has been completed, bedded in and finished off. Around the building at the right of the tunnel grass has grown up and two owners of the shop are out front. They are wondering where the fencing is and what there shop is goinh to be called. Kerbing, road and walkers have shown up around the tunnel . And here is the shot from the helicopter showing the kerbing heading into both sides of the tunnel. Thats where we were last night, today we attacked the workmans yard. It has now been named Angus Builders, grass has grown up, the fencing has arrived to keep folks out of the yard. Here is the view looking across the layout. 08921 shunts a delivery. Really need to get stuck into buliding the houses/shops and the rest of the retaining wall. By for now Stephen

R0011 Arched bridge

In between power failures last night, put up a wall on backside of upper level and stuck down some road into the tunnel. Stephen

Power is on so here is where we are with the bridge here is the new butress this is the top and top on otherside of the station Right lights are flickering so good night Stephen

Powers out modeling by candlelight!

Ive decided that I dont like Octobers and plan on skipping next years all together. Last October I broke my ankle and missed work for three months, this year due to some issues at work we are on a voluntray stand down and ive been furloughed. So no work or pay until our planes are up and flying again. However as last year i am getting stuck into the train, just not spending money except glue:so scalescenes kits that i have are being put together. After putting the viaduct and workshops together i moved onto the road bridge that passe under the station. Here is the opening that needs the bridge and some more viaduct to fill the gap. So pieces were measured up and the Viaduct/workshops and Arched bridge (r011) are slightlly different heights so there was going to be some bodging going on to make all the pieces meet and be off similar heights. However i had atticipated the following problem. I had realised that i would need to make the butress longer on either side, but had forgotton to include the depth of the wood. With the area that was supposed to be at track level the entire area of the arch was blocked by the upper level. Much scratching of head and contemplating of a saw and dremmel usage was considered. Thought about cutting out the arch in the wood or using just a flat surface to depict the tunnel. I really wanted a true tunnel and didnt want to attack the area witha saw. Came up with and idea of lowering the structure to ground level so the arch fitted under the wood and then filled in the area between the upper buttress, this would mean makeing some adjustments to the instructions and building sequence. This is where we are at with the interior and end wall installed My bodge job is going to work (?). Now to make sure we are ready for this storm called sandy. Stephen

Great to see some more pics of what is a fantastic layout. Possible extension, interested to see if/how that develops. Stephen

After "snowtober" last year we here in New Hampshire are getting ready for anything, earthquakes included.

Thank you Simon, wish I could work in plasticard like you do I think more depth is achieved. Not sure what is next. Fencing is ordered through nscalesupply.com, made by a complany called Gold Medal Metals.

Workshops under the viaduct is complete. The mini spares workshop is inspired by a similar scene on Gresby. The moss on the walls was done by drizzling white glue in a path that the moss would grow then adding green scatter, letting it dry and shaking of the extra scatter. from afar: mini workshop: and the end: I think that this looks much better than the green waste land and wall that was there before. Thanks for looking Stephen

The station bulidings are lyddle end from Hornby on the large platforms. The ones above the workshops are from scalscenes.

Updated pictures of station platform and roads Updated pictures of tunnel completed workshops under viaduct arches More images can be found on my thread. Stephen

That is really well done. Great blog entry, very imformative and easy steps by step to follow. Well done. Ive thought about using electra graphics just never taken the plunge.

Funny thing ive wondered about with earthquakes, especially from the flying aspect, what would one look like from the air? Often thought of this flying around California; presumabnly one would see buildings moving but could you see it moving across the ground like a shock wave or tsunami? Any way back to the trains. The area behind the quarry had a temporary retaining wall behind it. If you look at some of the last posts there was a large green waste land and then the retaining wall, wasnt happy with it so out came the knife. Using scalescenes.com kits r017 and r019 ive started makeing some viaduct arches and workshops. The grassy area was cut back a bit, some road was added in, some fencing, dirt and then the viaduct and workshops. When these pics were taken we are in early development, two shops have been done with three to go. Looking across the quarry and grassy area then zooming in and close up So there we are, more work for tomorrow. Stephen

Earthquake damage has been repaired and digger fuel spill has been cleaned up . I had a bit of an 80's 90's time the othernight and got out some of my older Graham Farish stock. We turned the clock back to loco hauled trains and NSE. Early in the morning Superb and Spitfire were found in the shed 56074 was spotted in the quarry after having brought in some empties for loading After Superb headed out to find its coaches 47598 was brought in for fuel Superb was later photographed pulling its trains 47598 was then seen in a passing sidding as a NSE bubble car on a stopping service pulled into the station. Right enough playing have some arches and shops under arches to make. Stephen

So whilst away flying this week there was an earthquake in NH it was centered in Maine and was 4.7magnitude. No damage to the house by the time it reached us but the layout did experience some scale damage. rocks fell in the quarry structurall damage class 170 derailed 47474 will need to be re railed Strange how the wave must have hit, things like the mobile tower next to the backscene didnt move (its not glued down), cars in the station car park are all in the same place. My class 60 which was stabled on a sidding about 8 inches from the 47 is still railed and the class 121 next to the 170 didnt move either. Anyway thought it was interesting to see how a 4.7 magnitude affected n guage things. Wonder what it would scale to for the "n" richter scale?

Thanks for those pictures of the quarry. Well as promised work has progressed on the quarry area, scalscenes concrete paper were used, dirt, rocks, static grass and weathering powdersand here is what we ended with. Ive also turned the buildings in the aggregate plant and moved them further away from the track. Think it works a bit better. Two photos from flying overhead new quarry area A drivers view looking towards new quarry More details to add and photos to follow Stephen

That is very impresive.

Small update. Most of this week has been spent coming up with train sequences and timetables. However some detail bits were added. Some signage: Hedging, to blend temp backscene and fencing around the mobile site.: Some paving was done. Next week im home planing on working on the concrete plant that is at the bottom of the hill. Thanks for stopping by. Stephen

Congratulations, its nice to look back and see how far one has progressed.

Thanks, the dirt is a combination of real dirt, sand and woodland scenics ballast.

Thanks for the comments. So my digger has been working hard in the mud and is now dirty, also some tracks were added so that movement in the dirt is hinted at. devondynosoar118: Thanks for the suggestion; will try the shading technique over the grass that has been applied. In light of the above suggestion some dirt and smaller rocks were picked up whilst walking today. Really does bed the rocks in a bit better and pulls it all together. . Thanks again for suggestions and reading.