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Next little project is the stone booking office for Queensbury. I have been messing about with dry ballpoint pens on the foam board to create stone work but think I will stick to the same O gauge brick as the signal box for continuity.

This 66 repaint is nuts! I'm scared to take on a matt black spray job when it comes to locos! Good going Jaz!!

Here are the daylight pictures as promised. Daylight really brings out the green and shows the stone work up well. Next I will get some pics of it with a light inside!

Hi Tony Mate. Sorry to hear that your Wife isn't doing to well. Had guessed that's why you've been a bit scarce!! Thanks for your well structured comment. Regarding the windows. There is a quite well known picture of an N1 pulling out of Queensbury with a twin set in BR days. The full picture shows this box on the right and the windows are definitely not white or cream. So I did some digging and went for green! The green was mixed up in an old Humbrol tin which was cleaned out. 7 parts Humbrol 76 uniform green. I part each of Railmatch Darlington engine green, Humbrol LNER apple green and Humbrol 120 cockpit green. Hopefully there will be enough to do the seven station buildings. I'll address the block instruments if I can! Regards Shaun.

I could photoshop the dials like I did the writing on the log book on the desk in the first set of pics!

The man is a Dapol foreman but has had his head replaced from one of the gang. Cup is a snippet of styrene rod and the saucer is a slice off of a fret feed gate! One of my favorite modeling jobs is swapping heads on plastic figures! Adds a bit of variety. From what I have been following on here, white paint was expensive before the war so wasn't used much. Hence the cream! The Block instruments (The clocks I think you are referring to) are far too small to have details painted on. The Faces wont be seen anyhow. I just added blobs of white for the photograph!!

Just took a couple more. Just to point out that these images are much larger than the model. I like the sawn timber effect on the plastic card lintel. The man is a Dapol foreman but has had his head replaced from one of the gang. Cup is a snippet of styrene rod and the saucer is a slice off of a fret feed gate! The instrument shelf is green to match that of a colour slide on the internet. My green is about right for LNER buildings from what I have seen! The kettle is more scraps glued together.

This evening I got most of the details on, done the roof and tea facilities! . Not so sure now that the windows were ever green but it does give the building an austere appearance which is what I'm aiming for! More pics tomorrow in the daylight. Signalman enjoying a nice cup of tea between trains.

You'll be lucky to get a room there Kal. It was full of skinheads last time we tried. Have met Buster, he's not a bad chap. We were well into Ska back in the day and shared a few pints at an all day Ska fest in Finsbury park. Arsenal won the FA cup the very same day, it was weird down in the tube station, one platform full of gunner hooligans and the other full of skins! dt. When I was dating my ex I went through Dover nearly 3 weekends a month at one point. Until I discovered the Ramsgate Oostende service served better lasagna and had cheaper beer.

Some where around here there is an old American booklet which taught me about the water based method of scenery making. Basically if you stick to water based products such as acrylic paints, white glue and clay all manor of scenic possibilities open up. You can mix up all kinds of textured ready coloured stuff such as earth coloured paint, PVA and fine sand, or use neat PVA as water as per Allan Downs. If you're not happy with the results, then a quick soak with water as Marcus has said and it all comes loose. I even thin crafters acrylics with water and air brush my track and trees etc!

Have got the day free due to my client cancelling while I was loading the truck. Says the room isn't ready for his book case as the drywall isn't finished. That's what I get for busting my cahoonies this week working until eight at night. Still mustn't grumble I can put todays efforts on the bill and that'll pay for that J11! So I'm off to finish Queensburys signal box and then I'll make a start on the stone station building. Regards Shaun.

Where's the wow button when you need it. Dare I stick my neck out to say that these cottages are one of your best builds Allan. Regards Shaun.

Can not afford it also as there is a J50 build going on and am still after a Hornby N2 chassis before I buy that 3D printed N1 which isn't cheap either. Then there's the Bachmann J11 which is a must have too. Where's it gonna end?

Got have one, if only to sit on the display case top shelf! 200 smackeroonies though.

Can't do a thing until I've had me mornings cuppa. So no photos yet! Morning sun? Not sure what that is , must look it up on Wikipedia.

This evening has seen some more cabinet making albeit 1/76 scale. Desk, mantle & Cabinet from plastic strip. Chair is off of a Ratio sprue. Telephone is from the Wills kit. Pics and notices are tiny signs and the clock is off of Goathlands station building. Have touched up the green paint after the butchery,

32 panels per pack, 8 of which are end panels with the half brace!

DJH kit here It is HO scale unfortunately and not cheap.

United States Army Transport Corps S160 class! They kind of look like an Ivatt 8F super pig. More here

There's enough of that on Dunster.!!

Need the trains running under a big old grubby mill building on GUN! So that I can get pics of 8Fs,WDs and such, with dark satanic Victorian architecture looming over them!

The cabin door has a window so I pulled one off of the downstairs of the Knightwing kit to use. The hole was made by drilling out the old door and paring off the waste. I had to remove the veranda railing to do this. Top of the out house has been sawn down and the small gable stuck back on. Instrument shelf from various plastic strip.

It is possible to make a simple black paper fall plate to float across the gap. With the crew as a weight it works quite well. There is some pallet strapping with a diamond pattern in the scrap box that needs trying for this purpose also.

Am very interested to see how you get on with the scissor cross over. Remind me, Is it code 83? Good job on the station, it's difficult to see where the model ends and the back scene begins!