Sasquatch

Total respect for the fire fighters. The douglas Complex fire is 32 sq miles and has englufed southern Oregon in smoke the sun is a red disc here today over 40 miles away. It's bad!

We're stuck indoors so are running trains!!!

Hi Allan,

I have looked and looked at that locomotive and come to the conclusionthat the chimney is the only things traight on it but then again thisw safter two bottles of Ninkassi Total Domination IPA!

Am I slurringsorry!!!  

The middle picture above is the perfect end to a layout and so well modelled have you any more pictures of that goods shed? 

Shaun, choking in the forest fire smoke over here.

Well thats just about the best station I.ve ever seen. Is it O gauge Allan? Its a shame this layout never got finished perhaps the owner couldn.t find a scenic guy to match the standard of buildings and locos

Hi there,

I'm a great fan of you're layout and am currently planning my own "Goathland". Can I ask what you used for the walling on the platforms and under the platform buildings and also what you used for the steel girder things for the rail over bridge?

Many thanks and keep up the good work, your layout is superb.

Mark

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the compliment. Our station walls are Wills random stone. The walls to the beck are  Plastruct O gauge stone and those girders are Wills Vari Girder packs, 2 of them. most of which were cut in half, with micro strip built up for the railing.

Shaun.  

Its 10am here so 8 hours behind! Mrs sasquatch is urging me to get off of here and get things done before the sun gets up too high.

My son is somewhere over Canada on a 747 right now sdo lots to do!

Regards Shaun.

Hi Allan. Its going to be in the 100s today. The work is finnished as of yesterday, (check in hand too). Horray!!!

Ok I'll scan it after breakfast but Iain please don't think I'm taking sides.

Theres a pic of Dunsters goods shed here some where.

Has anyone had any success with those slaters slates that come printed on to a sheet to be cut into strips and assembled onto another sheet of plain stock in rows. I tried them once on Dunsters goods shed roof but the lot bowed so badly I resorted to wills for the main roof. The office has the slaters ones though. 

Shaun.

 

 

On with my anorak with enamel train badges:

Slate colours...if you are making a prototype like this where you know the origin, or if you just want to give local authenticity, it's worth knowing the rough shades and hues. Blaenau Ffestiniog slates are a range of blue/greys, from mid (Maenofferen) to very light grey (Cwt-y-Bugail), while Penrhyn are slightly more blue/purple and Bethesda are full on Purple. Gwydir slates are more reddish and coarse, with pyrites lumps...mostly seen in older buildings in the Conwy valley.  I am only scratching the surface here, as there are the Aberdeenshire and Cornish Delabole slates (blue/grey and greeny/grey respectively), Ballachulish  and Pembrokeshire...I am no expert but you can see that it is a fascinating (to me) subject!  Apologies for boring you all to death.

 

I very nearly choked on my flakes Iain.

You have started a new catch fraise!!!  Soon guests won't understand a thing on this site.

One day away working and SWMBO has washed my AWETB!  She even got into the man cave in the man cave and tidied it up!!

Don't konw what I'm worried about anyway, they've been looking for me for over45 years. I'm a total myth! 

Mmmmm scaning ............. I`ll wait untill SWMBO   gets home!

Am I allowed to reproduce content " without the prior permission of the publishers and copyright holder in writing"

Ha Ha I just grabbed a copy of Model Rail (#44 June 2002)to check I spelt Chrises name correctly and there's a 4page spread on how to construct tudor buildings ........ Al Hail!!!!!! 

Brilliant Allan.

Chris leigh I believe!

Thanks for the comments Jaz, no idea what the tree is, I only supplied the buildings, Mike Mc Donald built the layout.

 

Now then Iain me ol' Mate, nice to see you back.

 

Like me, you're running out of pics to put up - the guys can only put up with just so much  cathedral and steelworks and not to mention the awesome modelling that went into building Tetford and it's just as well that Peter hasn't finished Peterborough North or Carlisle yet otherwise we would both be in bother !

 

And since I'm no longer active that don't help either - oh woe is me....

 

Mind you, Model Rail have got hundreds of photo's of mine that go right back to when I first started but that would mean a trip to Peterborough to get them back - more woe is me...

 

Cheers.

Allan

Hey Allan you could just PM  "Dibber" of this parish and ask if he'll post your pictures back.

Its a model! ,far from accurate. When I go on to model Minehead that will be very compressed also and only a scale 225 yards from Dunster!!

I will try to find that book you recommeded first I think, budget allowing of course!

Thats right! I added the up starter for opperational interest. The lamp in it cost more than the kit which I found at a show for a quid. The best pound  I think I ever spent.

I also realise that the down distant should be fixed so I could install the siding disc and use the control from the distant.

There are so many projects on the go already its hard not to get distracted.    

The sgnal I built up combined  two ratio kits one quite old with sectioal posts that I drilled out in order to pass mico fillament wires to light the lamps. The signals are removeable and fully opperational! This was not easy to achieve.

There is a picture somewhere on the internet showing Dunster signal box being jacked up and loaded on to a well wagon (I would assume). It also shows a junction bracket signal with two arms  albeit without the arms themselves, both red!

The layouts old configuration was suited to this as the line split in two just past the gates towards the fiddle yard. Now I have changed this by adding a new 4' section the signal is wrong.

I should construct a new signal with a disc!

Still, working signals are so much fun I am more concerned with building signals for my other layout Goathland which faces the same problem as the signaling differs over time periods. 

So I might have to start waving my modellers licence about.

Shaun

There's no way can I keep up with a Robinson step-by-step so please accept my miserable offerings with humble apologies.Now I'm off to eat worms...

 

 

Remember that article well, it inspired me no end as I was just trying to get back into modeling after a nasty accident. I thought at one time my modelling days were over. I,ve never been so wrong!  

Thanks Allan.

 

 

 

A platform was built up and braced against warping. A word of warning here...when you are constructing enclosed assemblies like these, leave at least 24 hours before putting the lid or top section onto the assembly. I have found, particularly with Mek, that solvent vapour builds up, resulting in a rather distressingly warped model that greets the bemused modeller the next day! Even when the lid has been fitted, leave it so that the vapour can escape upwards for a day. I had a very long platform buckle like this, and in discussion with other modelmakers, came to the conclusion that it was the solvent vapour.

 

 

Time to offer up for trial assembly. I wouldn't be putting the structure together yet, as I want to add detail inside and further weather etc. It was at this point that a typical Robinson balls-up occurred. I had made a separate drawing for each elevation and guess what? Being me, I made one of the elevations 5mm too narrow! All was noit lost, thanks to the trusty Dremel. I carved the top off one elevation, down to the wall top eaves height, then grafted on a new, correct, profile along with a 5mm extra width on the RH edge of the end. Phew!

 

 

 

cheers,

Iain

What true craftsmanship, the best craftsmen know how to get over thier boboos and arn't afraid to discuss them either. 

The solvent vapour problem is common with van kits so I've been drilling holes in the floors of vans for years.

 It is wonderful to see a work in progress Iain!

Shaun

Dear Mrs Sasquatch - your work is exquisite, and you have both created a thing of beauty. Well done indeed.

Thank you!  

Morning folks. Something cute to start your day.

Videos shot by Mrs Sasquatch yesterday afternoon!

The signal man is very promt at returning the signals to danger in both vids!

Mrs. S'quatch,

 

Please share how you did the flowers -  they add amazing realism to your scenery.

The station flower beds are paint. Gorse behind the station is made by sprinkling yellow scatter (Woodland scenics I think)  over poly fiber fixed with hair spray, and the garden behind the post office is a Busch kit! We have the weeds kit ready for the revamp!

A note on the videos.

The sharpe eyed among you might notice that the layout is facing the spectators. This not usually the case! When set up at home the layout faces the opperating well. One day it will be incorporated into a much larger sceme. It may not make any further show appearances unless requested due to how dificult is is to get the 6x2.5' boards in and out of my truck.  

I can see the need for a back scene now I have seen the videos and having a grade A+ O-Level in art there is no excuse for not having done it yet.

the canter on the viaduct and through the station is much more apparent veiwed from the back side. At the show in 2011 we watched this with great fascination all afternoon on sunday and I hope to capture this on video and post it up here because it's just real cool!

S'quatch

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