Bridport Town - Carrying On

[steve howe]

Nicely judged Dave,

 

Does Grandt Line still trade? I used quite a few windows from them on Gweek North Quay and their range of bolts and rivets are so useful!

 

Steve

[laurenceb]

They are now part of San Juan Car Co

Edited October 12, 2019 by laurenceb
spullung!

[DLT]

24 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

They are now part of San Juarn Car Co

 

Thanks Laurence; the San Juan website is here:  https://sanjuanmodelco.com   and the Grandt Line section is here:  https://www.grandtline.com  

[DLT]

I've been very carefully cleaning up and resizing the recovered copper sheets, and now applying them to the new shed with Evo-Stick.

I've managed to knock the paint off in a few places, and gone right through when embossing the nailheads, but nothing that can't be sorted later.

 

 

 

If the door openings look a bit small, its because the doors will fit on the outside rather than into the opening.

The air vent is too big,  but can be cut down to size.  Its built up from Evergreen styrene strip on a piece of clapboard sheet

Cheers, Dave.

[Signaller69]

Not sure how I'd missed your layout until now Dave, but just had a read through and will follow progress. Really super modelling.

 

Martyn.

[DLT]

Getting back to the corrugated sheets, before cutting them I draw lines on the back to indicate the position of the nailheads.  And emboss them from behind after cutting.

 

 

 

Sheets of fairly strong card are added to the foamboard roof base to form the actual roof.

 

 

 

Gutters are made from Evergreen strip; 3.5mm x .5 flat, 3.5 half-round, and 1 x 1 square assembled as so:

 

 

I do whole lengths of this and then cut them to fit as required.

I temporarily hold the gutter in place while glueing the corrugated sheets to the roof so that everything lines up.

 

 

Edited October 31, 2019 by DLT

[DLT]

This seems to be taking forever; so much for a rather plain utilitarian shed being a quick job!

Anyway, here is the current state of play.  All the corrugated is done,  and its currently still awaiting finished gutters, sliding doors and platforms.  I've probably gone a bit overboard with the detailing, but this does sit right at the front of the layout.  Also its only the second building on the layout modelled on all four sides!

 

 

 

 

And this interior shot shows how much cutting, bracing, reinforcing etc has been needed.

 

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by DLT

[DLT]

And heres a quick comparison to the earlier views

 

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by DLT

[netheravon]

looking good Dave.  I agree that a higher level of detail is required at the front of the layout.  Especially now you can see more of the details on the surounding building that the bulk of the carraige shed blocked.

[DLT]

All this detail means that this shed is STILL taking forever!

Basic building is all done and painted, gutters, windows and vents fitted.  Currently making the sliding doors, then all it will need are downpipes and loading platforms, rusting on the roof, and general weathering and toning down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by DLT

[DLT]

A quick bit of detail on the door construction.  The main door is good quality card, scribed with a sharp knife, all the details are plasticard.  The hanging straps are added first, strips of plasticard with embossed screwheads.  Next the supporting runner, then the carrying wheels, made from slices off the end of styrene tube. 

 

 

This rear view shows the bits of tube and any extra ironwork needed.  Notice its all a bit lumpy in this view.  Once dry it can all be gently filed down flush with the card, and any extra reinforcing added if you want it.

 

The finished item, ready for painting and fixing directly to the side of the shed.

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by DLT

[DLT]

My apologies for posting yet another update on the shed progress, its becoming a real marathon.  Its pretty much done now, still some door furniture needed, but I won't do any weathering until I've done the yard surface.  That way everything can be blended in together at one go.

Anyway, some photos of the shed, including one from the rail side (sorry about the background) and one showing the ground being built up so that the building fits into a socket.

 

 

 

Cheers, Dave.

Edited April 27, 2022 by DLT

[PaulRhB]

Ooh I like that  I admit to being worried when you removed the carriage shed but as usual what you had in your minds eye works very well indeed. 

[DLT]

21 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

Ooh I like that  I admit to being worried when you removed the carriage shed but as usual what you had in your minds eye works very well indeed. 

 

Thanks Paul, it wasn't absolutely clear before I started, only a rough idea!

[DLT]

The timber loading stage is taking shape.  A scale 16ft x 6ft, the top is built around a slab of 4mm plywood, the posts are 5mm square stripwood mounted on a card base.  Top surface is Obeche stripwood, 1.7mm x 5mm

 

 

I'm moving the lever-frame to a more logical position nearer the station throat, now that there is more space for it.  I'm cheating a bit with the rodding, as rather that remodel it with all the cranks in front of the frame, I'm going to leave things as they are and box in the area.  I hope this will  look ok and hide the subterfuge!  I will have to make alterations to the other end, where the frame was originally.

 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by DLT

[DLT]

A bit more progress.  I'm sure the rodding is far from correct, and Mr.Stationmaster will pick me up on this.  If he sees it...

 

 

And fixing the former location of the lever frame, in the loop near the water column.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by DLT

[Nick C]

You seem to have two rods coming out of the frame but three reaching the points...

[DLT]

There is a little bit of work to do in the middle, both sets of point rods drive two turnouts in a crossover arrangement, so yes there is another rod to add.

[DLT]

The extra point rodding is done, waiting to be blacked and soldered together.  Complicated by the fact that this area contains a baseboard joint...

 

 

The rodding stools are whitemetal casting from Model Signal Engineering.  They come six rods wide, so you can cut them to the size you want.  In this case I added an extra one to what was existing.

 

[jarhead]

This is an awesome layout. Very inspiring !!!

[DLT]

5 hours ago, jarhead said:

This is an awesome layout. Very inspiring !!!

 

Thanks very much Mr.Jarhead, but this modification is taking FAR too long!

[rockershovel]

I do like the detailing on this layout

[DLT]

On 06/12/2019 at 11:08, rockershovel said:

I do like the detailing on this layout

 

Thanks Mr.Rockershovel, but I've gone over the top and lost the plot now....  Not content with point rodding, I've also added signal pulleys and wires.

 

 

I found I had some whitemetal pulley wheels from the old Scale Signal Supply trader (not to be confused with Model Signal Engineering) in the bottom of my signal parts box.  Initially I thought I would just install the pulleys but wanted to try the wires as well.  They are made from 0.4mm brass wire, so hugely ovescale (over 1/2" thick!) so you can see them.  In reality they would be invisible from model viewing distance.  Anyway, I'm pleased with the effect.

Cheers, Dave.

[DLT]

Having finished the fiddly stuff with the point rodding, I've turned to scenics.  Track is ballasted, general ground cover added, and I'm building up the yard surface with card.

 

 

 

It's going to take a lot of weathering to blend that lot in!

[DLT]

The yard surface is under way, I've spread tile-grout to form it, and painted it with white emulsion with some powder paints mixed in (a bit of black, brown and yellow)  Its taking a long time to dry, I think I've got the grout a bit too thick near the track, should have used an extra layer or two of card first.

 

 

I've gone back to Plan-A for the end door on the shed.  The  big sliding loading door just didn't look right in that location.  I think the personal access door looks more in proportion, especially as the loading platform is quite small: one wagon size.

 

 

Cheers, Dave.