GN15 Long man pits

[kevo]

Hi all . i have had a previous  dabble in gn 15 .  some yrs ago  and offten make a few plans  for some thing ellse .so this is a new attempt . Long Man pits . is set in the sussex downs  not far from where i live .  i have called long man pits  after the famous willmington  giant  figure  that can can be seen  on the side of the downs .  it is in its early stages . hence the muddle of bits in my mock up . i have as yet never tried  any thing with over head eletric pick up . and thought  i would like to have a go . the baseboard  was a failed start on a on30 coal type layout that i have now turned in to a chalk pit . so here is a few pics of how its leveling out i know GN 15 narrow gauge  is getting popular with some people . and represent 15 in gauge but i would like to say mine is 18 in gauge so is that GN18  ime not sure . . as yet no over head catenray  poles or wires have been sortted  yet as ime still head scratch ing on that .

[kevo]

hi all the other evening i had a bit of a change in direction  instead of the over head i did a quick mock up with bits from my scrap box  to see what the battery electric loco would look like if it got converted to diesel  so i may now stick with this the over head can all ways  be tried at a later time  . The kits and figures  are from the  excellent  narrow minded  railworks range .

[ELTEL]

Hi Kevo

 

You mentioned in your last post the “Railworks Range”

 

Do you have any contact details ?
 

Regards,

 

Eltel 

[Mike]

4 hours ago, ELTEL said:

Hi Kevo

 

You mentioned in your last post the “Railworks Range”

 

Do you have any contact details ?
 

Regards,

 

Eltel 

It's Narrow Minded https://narrowmindedrailworks.com/collections/all excellent products and service.

 

[kevo]

Thanks Mike  for posting the  web site address  . yes the kits etc are really good i shall be getting a few more in the GN 15  range 

[kevo]

A bit of progress to day started to blend in the top layer of the chalk cliff face . this will be then skimmed with a second layer of filler  and when dry i shall use a chissel,  to carve out a more flat look to merge with the bottom half  . At the moment it all looks a bit bleek  and un interesting .but hopefully soon it will all pull together . i have a good bit of work to do on the loco still  to start to make it look half sensible . 

[Mike]

Having almost finished Hookton my 7mm narrow gauge layout, I too have started to dabble with GN15.   I'll start a thread once I have  something to show.

 

[kevo]

Hi mike  yes i have seen your 7mm  NG  Hookton  layout  excellent work the buildings and quay side are really good . yes GN 15  is a nice  size to do its got a good  chunky feel to it  . its a shame that some of the suppliers of kits over the yrs have gone  pepper 7 etc . hope you get some fun with building yours  . here are a couple of pics  of my old sand industry  layout i built some years ago  i sold it on wish i had kept it 

[Mike]

Now that's proper modelling in G scale it really looks the part,

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[kevo]

Thanks for the coments mike it was a very simple layout just one point there was a hidden traverser in side  the tipping  shed  . i built to locos  for the layout  or kit bashed some parts  and used 132 scale  skip  chassis  and scratch built two bigger skip buckets  for them .

[kevo]

Bit of a up date the upper layer of the chalk cliff  had its second layer of  filler skimmed  over and left to dry out for a couple days  this evening i started carve ing out some of the filler to get the effect  i was after . its quite good fun to do . it even gives the look of a unfortunate cliff fall  lucky there was no trains running at the  time.  T he   middle bit has not yet dryed  fully so i will leave that till  tomrrow . i wil probly  give the cliff face a very mild wash with a brown or black to bring out  some shaddow ing  and then add odd clumbs of folage the very top of the cliff face will have some grass on . .

[kevo]

Hi All well i havent  really forged ahead much with this project  it went through  a few changes  .🙄 gauges and scales  have been swapping  around as normal with me . 1st off GN15 narrow gauge even over head pick up  was in the pipe line  then on30  some running problems with locos kind of knocked the wind out of the whole project . any way  . i have some o gauge bits ive had laying around  and the other evening i placed my Dapol 08  and some bits of track on the layout two see what i could do and i quite liked what i saw so u could say as happend  in the real world the narrow gauge track was removed and standard gauge  replaced it  so that is what is going to happen next   if it works brilliant  if not i can allways change again  any way here are a few taster pics  of the mock up .

[kevo]

oooops i didnt up load the pics  sorry

[kevo]

just had a thought  i had  best now move long man pits  over on to the UK standard gauge industrial modelling  forum  as change of gauge . so if you would like any follow ups thats were i shall now post  . 

[kevo]

Hi  to all , you can end up going round the bend  and back again with ever change ing ideas and thoughts  in this hobby . plans for this layout alone have done a few gauge scale changes thats for sure my plans to convert this layout to o standard gauge never got any where as i soon guessed that just two sideings would end up a bit boreing to operate . so as a stop gap   i got stuck in to building  another GN15  loco to run on it  . i had a oo gauge  Hornby dcc 08 sunter chassis  kicking around and thought may be i can do something to  fit on this  as the 08's are really nice slow runners  so here are a few pics of what i came up with . when i had finished building  the cab and body  it was primed in Halfords grey primer  and coat  of rust of different tones  was painted on all over to varry the tone . then i used a chipping medium sprayed on with my air brush then a coat of light blue over top  then patches of the  chipping fluid was removed with water to the affect i wanted  later some warning strippes were added and coats of a grimmey miix was blown over to blend it all together , i have added a stay alive  to the decoder  as there is plenty of rooom  under the bonnet . it is one of the best running locos i have  . hope you like it . 

[Nearholmer]

That is excellent!

 

What is this “chipping medium”? I’ve always used either ‘maskol’ or salt.

[kevo]

Thank u  glad you like it its a bit of a mix of differernt  NG  locos allmost  a bit kerr stuart looking  the chipping meduim is by vallejo . how ever i doint think i will be  useing it again  it really glocks  up your air brush  . i will probly just stick to salt or hair spray from now on .