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Nothing very photogenic recently but some good progress has been made.
I decided to break off from the coal drops whilst I pondered the access steps from the lower to upper levels. In the mean time, all the droppers have been soldered to the rails and these have been connected together, as dictated ....
As regular readers may be aware, I enjoyed my time at Scunthorpe Steelworks - industrial railways can be truly fascinating! Following my paternity leave ending I was told to report back to Scunthorpe until further notice. Sadly recent news means that this maybe the last location where I will be work ....
I'm sure there are some of you out there in P4 land that think."That Ian, he's all mouth and trousers. He'll never get that Saltfleet Haven layout built".I don't blame you I do tend to run off at a totally unrelated tangent and go modelling somewhere else for a time. But it keeps me fresh I feel and ....
Here are some photos of the finished building - except for the 2 chimneys and vents previously mentioned.
Final weathering will take place once everything is built and in place on the layout.
Thanks for all the positive comments.
The next installment will be the roundhouse and workshop itself.
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Here are a few more photos of the office complex.
All that remains now is to paint the roof tiles.
There are two additional brick built chimneys to add to the higher of the two hipped roofs and two vents/chimneys. These will be made and added at a later stage. ....
Indeedy!Scalefour News No. 166 lay inside my snow covered mailbox on my arrival home from work yesterday. It had been a long slow commute home. So I was in the mood for a good read and News 166 didn't disappoint.How to convert a Jinty to P4. A good solid beginners article. To show just how easy it i ....
Back to the Office roof....
Nearly finished....
Complete with ridge tiles...
I will add some more photos tomorrow ....
A couple of hours more this evening working on the Pug. All spent on the firebox build, and if I'm to do it properly, an intensive and painstaking job.It started off by the curving and building of the firebox itself. The tab and bend method works very well, helped by the half-etched line ....
Having finished the sand dryer I can now return to adding the roof to the Office complex. As with the sand dryer I chose to use plasticard over the mdf sub roof and set about cutting and glueing pieces of 2othou plasticard to form the hipped roof. I also attached lengths of plastic rod on the ridge ....
Well, in Sunday I had some free time to make a start on the High Level Kits chassis kit for the Dapol Pug.After five minutes the Dapol body was reduced to its constituent parts:There is one typo in the instructions that confused me at the outset - it refers to unclipping the cab at the sides and FRO ....
I have now managed to add the ridge tiles to the sand dryer and in consequence have repainted parts of the roof.
The roof on the buildings have been painted using air opaque Badger air brush paints which I apply using a brush. I tend to use a palate of their greys [nos 7.07 & 7.06] and black.
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After another bout of five or six wagons having new couplings fitted, and generally renovated, I fancy something different.So before diving straight into a full etched kit, I thought that I should warm my skills back up on an easier RTR conversion. Rather than a simple conversion using drop-in ....
Today, a construction worker engaged in reinstating the railway at Delph station site discovered a tortoise buried beneath.......
OK, in a slight break from the coal drops (awaiting more plastic supplies), I decided to mount and connect the first point motor to the TOU on the only turnout on this b ....
The self adhesive tiles produced by York Modelmakers are excellent, easy to use and look the part. The last building I tiled, Sheep Pasture Engine House, had individual tiles which I cut from 5 thou plasticard. They look good but would be a daunting method to adopt for all the roofing on Barrow Road ....
The title of my blog comes from the layout which, in various forms, has been built my my dad and I. But you may have noticed that despite numerous references the layout itself has actually never appeared here. There's good reason for this though. Over the last three or so years, the layout has been ....
I have a 2mm scale Class 24 diesel, fitted with a Zimo MX620. I wish to use all six of the outputs on the chip to drive various features; independent lights, working couplings, and I might use the last output for a cab light.The standard Farish 24 comes with a circuit board for a six-pin (2 function ....
To continue a previous theme of Christmas presents, Suzi also bought me A Modeller's Handbook of Painting and Lining by Ian Rathbone.The presentation is up to the usual Wild Swan standard and the content is superb! Ian Rathbone makes it look so easy too! This is, of course, the sign of someone who n ....
I never thought that I would be happy to see a bottle of green acrylic paint. But there you go strange things happen in the model railway world.Why was I so happy to see such an insignificant thing?Well, over the past couple of weeks I've been doing a bit here, a bit there on the Wills tin chapel ki ....
I have now received the sub roof parts for the sand dryer and so decided to take a break from constructing the office complex to complete the sand dryer.
First I attached the mdf substructure to the locating lugs on the internal structure
then I cut pieces of 20thou plasticard to form the hippe ....
This is all a little advanced to where I am with this project but as you may have noticed my mind does race ahead of me at times. Anyway I do feel I need to plan ahead a little before I embark on any baseboard construction. I've been considering some of my planned scenic items and how they might aff ....
For anyone who, like me, is concerned at the rate of their modelling progress - take a look at Martin Goodall, who gives us an update on his 'Burford Branch' layout in the latest issue of MRJ (196). The layout was conceived in 1974, work started in 1981... and it still isn't finished!OK, so his layo ....
Having brought the coal drop board home from the workshop, I've been able to make better progress with the stone retaining walls, in comfort! The brick pillars and stone retaining wall sections in between and at the ends are now ready to be coloured (not sure if to paint or try the crayon technique ....
Two things came together this morning: Allan Goodwillie's post on the use of ad-hoc jigs to make modelling easier (here: http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=666&start=25#p3809) and me chasing another upside-down wagon around my workbench. Grrrr!!!!Whilst fitting and tweaking ....
After further checks this morning I think the discrepancy in the angle of the crossing vee is small enough to get away with, once the wing and vee rails are in their correct positions. As you can see from the photo, I used pins to hold the rails in their correct positions and then sighted along the ....
Buoyed by my success with the tiebars the other day, I decided to have a crack at rebuilding one of the common crossings on the layout. I'd been in two minds about tackling it for some time but had kept procrastinating. The problem was that I'd used thin metal strip rather than copperclad strip to c ....
Or idiot's mistake #6.. Look at it how you will :-)As part of renovating my fleet of tired P4 wagons, a Coopercraft GWR open wagon with sheet rail came to hand. I've had a preliminary look at it, taken off the old S&W couplings that were not as well-fitted as the ones that I build no ....
Time to put the building together...
Here are the front and side elevations in their painted state with the glazing and doors added.{non available for the end elevation - I must contact the supplier}
The internal structure is made from 2mm mdf, slotted together and glued. I have given the vi ....
I had a crack at finishing the other Masokits tiebars the other day. I just needed to solder up the ones I made a while ago and then either make a couple more from the etches or try to salvage some from the duff lot (the ones I forgot to clean before soldering!!), which I managed to do.I learned two ....
Apologies to those who managed to find this update and request for help in the history during the recent posting problems, but here it is again. Better luck this time?
A bit more progress with the coal drops, this week.
For the first time since before Christmas, I've been able to access the work ....
I have now coloured the walls using my favoured method with coloured crayons. The Berol Karisma ones are no longer available so I have substituted some from the Faber Castell range which have proved to be better.
The building substructure is now assembled and I will add these walls to it s ....
At last... I can add another entry!
Here is the office chimney which I have constructed form some old Formcraft/Alan Gibson/C&L brick parts.
The chimney is constructed from 4mm scale english bond brickwork parts - see photo - which are placed over lengths of plastic rods, which fit through the ....
As many regular readers may be aware, I'm very much in favour of revisiting previous projects. I feel it not only leads to less waste but also gives you a chance to review how you modelling has improved. One such example which will hopefully be revisited this year will this model of D6758, a class 3 ....
On End of the Line recently was a link to a newly published photo of HS4000 Kestrel which was a loco which was very much before its time; wouldn't it be amazing if the loco turned up complete one day? It was exported to Russia in 1971 after Hawker Siddley were unsuccesful in securing orders from Bri ....
Unfortunately, due to problems at work, I was not able to get to this month's Scalefour Area Group meeting (Sorry guys). When I eventually arrived home I thought I'd to try and make the best of a bad day.The RCH open wagon was still out on my bench so I drilled out the buffers and glued then in plac ....
Today was a very important day for our little family; today we introduced Thomas to the wonderful world of railways! Not that he had any idea of what was going on, which isn't a bad way to be really! It was also an excuse to see 60163 Tornado for me too though! Amazingly I'd not seen the newest ....
I have been unable to post anything since Monday so I'll do this post while I have access.
Here is a good photo of the Office block; the section at the front with the lower hipped roof; whilst the Mess and Stores are at the rear, the stores being nearest to the shed building. The model is sectioned ....
Some of you will have seen this already if you're on your toes.Otherwise http://railwayeye.blogspot.com/2010/01/ice-to-see-you-to-see-you-ice.htmlWhat I find fascinating is that the icicle is pretty much shaped to the loading gauge... ....
After having a few problems with postings I will take this opportunity to add a few photos of progress on the Office, Mess & Stores building at the front right of the shed.
This shows the parts of the kit with the roof sections at the top, the carcase to the left and the front and side elevation ....
I can't believe that it's nearly a year since I last posted about this project! Actually, i still can't believe we're in 2010, but there you go! I have got a little further with it, but not much! The main area of progress was completely disassembling the Bachmann base model! I decided to use Hornby ....
After the success of the Bachmann Pannier tank conversion, my thoughts have been turning to detailing and adding that personal touch to the model, adding a loco crew and other bits like fire irons, lamps etc. I'll probably use Springside Models (still available after all these years) for lamps and F ....
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