Atso

I've knocked up some steps out of 10 thou plastic card and down/drain pipes from various sizes of brass wire.

I'm not sure about the steps, but will live with them for awhile before making a decision on them.

Originally, I thought that the signal box ended up embedded in the end of the platform ramp on the Down side. However, further study of the photos I have strongly suggest that this wasn't the case. Sadly there are few decent pictures of the box from this angle and so I've had to 'suggest' how things were arrange. Below is the box in the current guise - the bell is from a spare Peco item.

The privy is now supported and the signalman will have an easier time accessing it. The gutters are a couple of stips of 30 thou plastic, the impression of the inside being initially scored and then opened up a little using the end of a triangular file. A short staircase is still to be knocked up and added.

Originally the photographic evidence I had suggested that the signal box was located on the ramp of the Down platform. However I've subsequently decided that this wasn't the case and the box was located immediately after the ramp. I've also discovered that there was a narrow walkway around the front and sides of the box, so I've had to make a few alterations.

The privy now had a support structure underneath it - should make the signalman feel a bit safer in times of need. The bell above the door is from a spare spru off (I think) a Peco kit.

1 hour ago, manna said:

G'Day Folks

 

So small, he builds them Atom by Atom........!!!!!

 

manna

Oh, come on Manna, let's be serious! I can't build atom by atom, they're just too small. I build with molecules; most of them are quite large and complex ones! 

Having gotten most of the fiddle yard built and all of the scenic track laid, I've turned my attention to building a few of the structures for Hadley Wood. I've built on of the tunnel mouths already and below is my progress on the signal box.

Thanks Adam.

I decided to try again but this time using sticky back plastic cut on my Craftrobo. Below is the new roof compared to the original.

An improvement I think.

The first sloshes of paint have been added. I'm not sure about the roof though and might redo it.

The glazing needs some touch ups where I've removed the masking but I think it has potential...

Painting of the first tunnel mouth is well underway now and I've turned my attention to the next structure. I didn't fancy making the second tunnel mouth right now and working out the station dimensions was driving me scatty. Therefore, I've turned my attention to the signal box. This was a glorified ground frame in reality and by 1932, was locked out with the exception of when the goods sidings were being shunted. The two signals were controlled at Greenwood box. The signal box was at platform level but on the ramp, so I decided to model the structure to track level and will cut a hole in the platform (once built) to accommodate it.

Progress over a few hours today:



The glazing is not attached and is masked up so that I can spray the window frames using my airbrush sometime in the next few days.

2 hours ago, grob1234 said:

Not the best picture perhaps, but at least I'm able to practise some off-set lining using my bow-compasses:

 

 

Without doubt the hardest bit is the cab front. I'm tackling that with a brush...

Great stuff Tom, very nicely done!

10 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Before the good-running of Jesse's C2 is compromised by my fitting a decoder into it, I've given it a good run round today on Lttle Bytham. 

 

I doubt very much if its train is accurate, but I don't have many LNER carriages..............

 

 

 

 

 

 

It makes an interesting comparison with the one I built (which Geoff Haynes also painted) which ran during the LB 1938 weekend, two years ago. 

 

The privy looks great Tony and has a natural weathered look to the finish. The C2 looks wonderful, and I'll admit to feeling slightly envious of Jesse. Any chance you could apply a shrink ray to it and send it to me instead of Oz???

Incredible work Nick; although I'd expect nothing less!

19 hours ago, Nick Mitchell said:

Some I know would decry this as wasting my time, but we all derive pleasure form different things.

Speaking as someone who once let others dictate what I should enjoy (with seriously detrimental effects), I can honestly say that enjoying a process, in whatever form, is never a waste of time.

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

Splendid work Steve,

 

I've seen it on your thread, but thanks for posting it on here. 

 

The D16/3 to the right in the lower picture looks interesting. Is it Union Mills? 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

Thank you Tony,

As this is my first true scratch build for some time, I'm quite pleased with how it has turned out.

The D16/3 is indeed a Union Mills product, and slightly too tall; hence its use as a clearance tester. I purchased it when they first became available and will eventually detail it and repaint into LNER lined black (it's already acquired a new set of wheels). At some point in the past I've used it to practice lining on - the stock Union Mills product has no lining. I plan to use it on some of the Down stopping services to Cambridge with one of the Royal Clauds (to be designed and built) operating in the Up direction.

The other wing has now been constructed. Unfortunately, I seem to have suffered from the curse of the non-drying Humbrol paint so have stripped the other bits back and re-primed them. This allowed me to add the small brick panel above the tunnel mouth that I'd missed before.

3 hours ago, richard i said:

Have you seen the tunnel photos on Wright writes? They seem to show a drainage channel around the top which might be great feature to model, unless I misses its fitting already. 
richard

I've seen that Richard. I'm very tempted to have a go at modelling it.

1 hour ago, gordon s said:

 

Am I imaging it, or is the tunnel mouth on a slope? The earlier pic showed it to be square and parallel whereas this pic shows the right side much lower than the left. 

 

Optical illusion?

I've just gone back and checked, the tunnel mouth is square! 

The current tunnel assemblies went over to the layout today for clearance testing. As I suspected, the wing badly interfered with the front hidden loops. After some work with the Dremel, a clearance hole sufficient to allow my tallest loco was created = I'm really glad I made the upper wall as a three ply sandwich.

None of this butchery will be visible once the layout has been completed as the side of the cutting will cover the hole. I only knew about the capping stone on the end of the wing due to Google Maps, it isn't visible in any photo I've seen.

4 hours ago, gordon s said:

Always a pleasure to come here and relive trips to Hadley Wood 60 years ago.....

 

Where did the time go?.....

I wasn't about to see Hadley Wood back when the station building was still in place, but I am beginning to work out that time is a cruel mistress...

4 hours ago, gordon s said:

I seemed to have missed some magic along the way. Saturday there was talk of tunnel mouth drawings and this morning a beautiful product turned up. Can you tell me how it was produced as the shape is outstanding. Was it moulded/3D printed/laser cut, or did it just appear once the magic words were spoken.....

3 hours ago, richard i said:

Looks great, the shape of the entrance must have been difficult to get right.

richard

Thanks for the kind words gents.

The tunnel was scratch built using the drawings I produced from the photos I found. Mainly 30 thou plastic card with some 20 thou strip and slaters embossed brick sheet. My only concession to more modern methods was to many to breathe some life into my ancient Craftrobo cutter to cut the tunnel mouth and stonework - the later was then treated to a panel line knife to give a bit more relief to the detail.

Three hours this morning saw the first of the wing walls produced.

Below is a view from behind showing the support structure I made to get the curve.

A final view showing the blended brickwork on the corners using the technique described in Geoff Taylor's book on making buildings.

The untreated area at the bottom will be below the scenic level (once some ground contours are eventually made).

4 hours ago, manna said:

G'Day Steve

 

It wasn't all black, as I said on Facebook, but it was very dirty,  Kings Cross Gasworks Tunnels were only a little worse.

 

manna

Hiya Manna,

Don't worry, I read your comment. I'm thinking a dark grey wash and a dusting of weathering powders will be just the ticket once the paint has finally dried.

Ok, so there was a kink in the goods yard track! This has now been attended to.

Feeling more motivated now that around 80% of all the trackwork is in place, I've been working on a few scenic items.

First are a couple of buffer stops assembled from 2mm Association etches and regauged to fit N gauge's 9mm between the rails.

Next is something a bit more substantial, one of the tunnel mouths - minus the wing walls, which still need to be built.

Naturally, having gotten this far, I couldn't resist sloshing some paint on it!

Usually I would pick out random bricks, but as the tunnel mouths appeared to have become near black, I'll be using weathering from this point onward.

15 minutes ago, Lacathedrale said:

Looking good @Atso, how did they go together? I have several sitting in my gloat box...

Thanks William, I didn't find any problems assembling them, even when I regauged them to N! It took around 90 minutes to assemble the pair while half watching TV.

Just coming off my workbench is this pair of GNR buffer stops assembled from the Association's etches.

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Don't want to be too much of a party-pooper, Steve, but isn't there a bit of a sharp kink at the entrance to the yard - or is that a trick of the camera?

I think it is a trick of the camera but I'll have a close look at it when I get over to the layout later today.

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

Ready for delivery for painting......................

 

 

This trio of latest builds will be off soon to Geoff Haynes for painting, all in BR green. 

 

This clearly is the most economical way of creating/painting locos - in batches, all of the same colour.

 

No doubt Geoff will report on how the paint will go on to the 3D-printed resin V2s. There should not be any problem.

 

I've painted the motion on each one. One still sees steam-outline locos bowling around layouts with gleaming motion. Apart from Royal Train or exhibition duty, this was never right. 

Brilliant work as always Tony - some nicely observed details on the models.

I've not experienced an issues painting my 3D printed locos which I believe use the same resin as Mike's. I'm sure that Geoff won't have any difficulties with the paint job!