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There's one in every other picture, I'm sure. Just last week Duncan mentioned a nice brick repair to the stonework on my signal box. I think it was a nice way of pointing out the fact that the glue on the drain pipe had pulled off the paint below! Then I took a few pics of the copse (not the Dutch police but the small wood variety) the other week and found the deer had keeled over, so I didn't post them. Tot ziens. (Ik praten ook wel int Nederlands)

I think the sky is one of the best I've seen. It really gives a lot of atmosphere. It's the chap in the third picture doing his morning press ups on the Morris that I noticed! You don't very often see that modeled.

Queensbury East Junction signal box.

Slowly getting the windows made. Painting the styrene strip before assembly was a waste of time due to the paint bleeding and chipping. Mrs S. is complaining of head aches due to the cyano glue so that has slowed things up even more. It is starting to look like something out of Jekyll and Hyde and not like a station at all.

$6.68 Much cheaper! It was shipped free from Neiw Jiersee! (bad accent) so I'm not grumbling!

Oh well! I do hope that you are not too disappointed! I fitted some LED lights under a friends kitchen last year. He called complaining that they didn't work. It took ages to sort it out. Traced the problem in the end, there was a cutout circuit in the power box which came on if there was a break in the circuit but no mention of it in the instructions or online spec!

This is good reading for anyone considering these lights! http://www.ledluxor.com/flexible-led-light-strips-smd-5050-vs-smd-3528 Regards Shaun Thanks for pointing me onto this Al!

Just been reading up a bit on these. They should be dimmable so try putting 6 or 8 volts across there. Ebay US has a 3M strip of cool white, warm white and yellow along with red green and blue for$4.95 edit; $12.80! with free shipping. (within the lower 48) The company also sell power packs, dimmers and wireless remotes! LED-lights Shaun. Now where's my flexible friend!

Well it looks like each LED on that strip has its own resistor in which case I'd be tempted to use some cutters to snip off ones and twos!

These are going to look fantastic in your station Al! Great stuff. Where dare I ask did you get that? Regards Shaun

Have started a new topic related to this one on the next fun project Locos-for-Queensbury

Hi Lee, Thanks! The scribing is addictive but these windows aren't. Now I'm trying isnta bond cyano. It is very slow work and difficult not getting the glue on the clear glazing. No progress yesterday due to a blocked sink, which took up most of the day. Mrs. S. is having an early night so perfect chance to make a few windows. The windows on the mill are next as I've put this job off for too long. Get the jobs that I'm not enjoying out of the way then I will treat myself to a fun little project!

The window has fallen apart. Revell Contacta doesn't seem to stick this kind of clear plastic :cry:

Dry brushed weathered black added.

Thinned acrylic sandstone paint is applied a few square inches at a time and wiped off with a paper towel to represent the mortar. The sheen left helps tone down the olive tones of the base coat.

Here is the first window. Not happy with the scribing I have added .020"x.020" Evergreen strip glazing bars. Thinking that they should also be green, some Quantity of styrene strip will be applied to some masking tape and painted before proceeding. Resizing of images will become intense due to macro shots showing up flaws which are not noticeable to the naked eye.

What I've got planed is to make one house front and one house back which will be used to make an RV mold. I can then cast as many house fronts as I need in two part plastic. Just like I did that abbey! You would be welcome to the molds mate! Regards Shaun. PS. When casting in two part plastic rather than plaster, not only are the castings a thousand times stronger but more details are possible such as window bars. You just need to use injection molded windows from kits so as to create a slight taper on the bars enabling easy removal from the mold!

Check out the picture of Keighley station circ.1987in this link. Details of note are the track. Nothing level here and a mixture of wood and concrete sleepers. The blackness of some of the stonework and those streets again! http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/images/donations/David%20Walbank/Keighley/Keighley%20Station.jpg

Love the fish van. Might just have to order a couple of parkside kits and build a couple of those! No no no. :nono: :nono: got to stay focused.

Very impressed dt. You've captured the essence of the first train of the day. I can can hear the birds morning chorus starting up and coins dropping in the tea machine. It's one of those really early mornings before they have cleared the wineo's off the platform, I can smell the stale special brew. Its just a feeling brought back from my commuting days. How comes Kal is standing down near first class and Jaz gets to ride in second ?

Latest on the stone building at Queensbury. Window and door openings have been cleaned up, squared off with a fine file & had their corner courses filed in. Both sections are glued around a floor with PVA and held with tape. A string course has been added at first floor level. Touch up paint applied.

This is the street I have in mind Jaz. The kind of thing that could only be West Riding! Perfect for the back of the layout. Less the skip of course, I was thinking horse and cart coal delivery.

The drain pipe got knocked and the cyano pulled the paint away! It needs touching up but in view of your comment I might just leave it. The windows are of a certain type so I think I'll go in for the scribed Plastic sheet with styrene frame surrounds. This build is going extremely quickly but I don't think I'd take on a whole street of houses as on Jasons Bacup or a mill. There are some wonderful bridges and tunnel mouths that need making and then there are the platform edges. So I think this method will be used for all the stone work on the Queensbury section of GUN! Regards Shaun

Thanks guys! It's modeling on the cheap!! Had I gone to my local hobby store they probably won't have what I need as I have stripped the styrene display racks of all that is useful and when they order in it takes weeks. Anyhow the arches in the stonework have worked out perfectly and as the next set of pictures will show this is the best method I have come across that lines up the corner stones! Today I have started the back section of the building. The end off cut from the first build was saved and used to line up all the courses and lintels. Then the corner stones are scribed on first. First I have scored through the corners on the back before cutting out. Then out to the workshop to sand the miters in the back very carefully so as to not sand through the front card. The sander was found at a garage sale for $20 it has a 40" belt and an 8" disc which has a small table that tilts down to 45 degrees, ideal for this job! Here's a close up of the corner stones. Cross eyed Squatch with writers cramp.

So I went with the foam board after all. There's no O gauge brick sheets left. But I like this new method. We all know that embossed card is nothing new. This particular piece of card is a foam board that came with a print we brought for the living room, it seems to be better quality than the other stuff which costs $10! Already given it a coat of my acrylic millstone grit base coat and can't wait to get out in my work shop in the morning for the next bit of wizardry. It was fun drawing on the stones even if I am off to bed with writers cramp! So all there is to know about the actual building is that is long since gone. It was accessed via a foot bridge from the station forecourt and stood at the Bradford end of the Queensbury triangle. My measurements are guesstamates the all important one being the upper door which must be above loading gauge.