tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75250982455291069182024-03-06T07:11:21.309+00:00lnr model makingA blog describing the adventures of a novice modelerlnrmodelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849826220916229004noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525098245529106918.post-28675149369135626932020-07-24T11:22:00.001+01:002020-07-24T11:22:04.563+01:00New ModelingHello All (Well, anyone that's still out there)<br />
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This is just a small selection of images of models I've been working on recently<br />
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I'd show you more, but most of them are still on my camera, or on my phone.<br />
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If you want to find me on Twitter - I'm @bilbobarneybobs ( I should change that handle, but I've had it so long and it's a little sentimental for many reasons)<br />
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Cheers<br />
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<br />lnrmodelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849826220916229004noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525098245529106918.post-21843608531348229022016-03-30T10:51:00.002+01:002016-03-30T10:51:43.868+01:00Dover Priory Low relief frontage<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiR29cJXzha3rSfGPN31IPajf8wC6KEWSQ9vT3O8FYdScMQuB-oxVmN7zdNaaYYe6lpTyijyFaXYcPuGF26Af91nHyPIsp7CGBoZusT2U6xkEbIedN2ddb-sLEVUpLpgJH2GxNst-OhGc/s1600/20160326_152153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiR29cJXzha3rSfGPN31IPajf8wC6KEWSQ9vT3O8FYdScMQuB-oxVmN7zdNaaYYe6lpTyijyFaXYcPuGF26Af91nHyPIsp7CGBoZusT2U6xkEbIedN2ddb-sLEVUpLpgJH2GxNst-OhGc/s640/20160326_152153.jpg" width="640" /></a>I'm so lucky I have a patient customer for this one.<br />
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I've actually been at this for 4 months now - and it's not that it's actually taking me that long to build it, but that various factors have interrupted, being extremely busy with work, the evening design job getting frantic, but perhaps most impactingly, becoming completely disenchanted with the model and losing my modelling mojo, as it were.<br />
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But now I'm back and really getting into it.<br />
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This is very much a work in progress and there will be a canopy to go with it (I insanely persuaded my customer that he needed me to build it - talk about a rod for my own back...)<br />
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Anyway, I hope you like it<br />
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Well after seeing the Network Rail Shed, my customer then showed me a photo of the building I posted at the the end of the last post.<br />
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It's the Depot office building, I believe a former coal office and is in a fairly run-down state, just screaming out to be modelled.<br />
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Like his Dover Priory signal box, it was to be clad in SE Finecast English Bond plasticard sheet on a foamex substrate.<br />
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Like the Shed, plans were drawn up in Illustrator and then output onto 2mm foamex on the vinyl plotter. Likewise, the windows were extracted from the drawings and separately output onto white self adhesive vinyl, before then being stuck to clear pvc.<br />
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Next came adding the brick sheet. I stuck this down with pvc pipe adhesive, which seems to work quite well with the flat faces of foamex, then sealed off the edges with a splash or two of MEK. The lintels were then cut out, and a strip of 20thou was let into the hole, being glued in place with more MEK.<br />
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I then added a strip of 20thou and 40thou for the window cills, but later replaced them with 40x40 as I thought they looked way too thin.<br />
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A foamex roof was added, flush fitted through careful measurement between the gable ends, so that the roof tiles could sit directly on the walls but still have a substantial base to sit on. The 3mm thickness also doubled up for the bargeboards, although I did stick a 3mm plastic strip to the front of this, to enable a better adhesion for the guttering.</div>
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Similar to the York Modelmaking self adhesive tiles, I've made my own from self adhesive vinyl on the vinyl cutter...</div>
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They're really thin and look superb for slate tiles - these ones are measured up as Duchess size. I simply make up a batch, stick down some graph paper to the roof, then start laying rows of slates, overlapping in 3mm increments. Not only does it take about a 100th of the time it takes me to individually tile a building, they look great and take acrylic paint really well. This batch was made from grey, but I was dissatisfied with my painting, and replaced them with black ones, which had the instant advantage of being self-shadowed following a dry brushing of grey.<br />
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Anyway, back to the model in hand.<br />
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Once roofed, I started adding details such as guttering and downpipes from plastic rod and half-round, fashioning the brackets from thin microstrip, Then came the fun part... On the prototype, the building is covered with electrical wiring, so I started adding this with thin wire, affixing it to the bare plasticard with MEK. Details such as junction boxes, switches, brackets etc were added with micros tip and small fillets of plasticard, again welded on with MEK<br />
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Like the Network Rail shed, the extension roof was "felted" with masking tape. Bulkhead lights were made up from pieces of clear plc and plasticard.<br />
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Painting was a mix of Humbrol acrylics and artists acrylics, with thinned grey enamel washed over the brickwork for the mortar courses.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The moss on the extension roof was created by liberally coating it with pva adhesive, then sprinkling it with bright green and buff scatter (all I had available). Once dry, I touched a wet brush loaded with some dark green/grey ink to the scatter which instantly stained it a lovely dark mossy colour.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's all in the details... I copied all the signage from the original, printing it out onto paper and sticking down with double-side tape. Graffiti was added as per the prototype and some safety tape was added to the "gas main" by printing out a strip of yellow and black I made on the computer, trimming it out to a 1mm strip and wrapping it around a thin piece of wire. It was secured to the wall eventually, after securing itself to my fingers, with superglue. Mesh covers for the various flues and vents were made from a set of Class 40 Radiator Grill etches I had left over from another project. They were VERY VERY fiddly to make and I swore lots...</td></tr>
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Finally, it was time to wire up those previously mentioned LEDs...<br />
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With my son eagerly watching, after successfully soldering on the supplied resistors, I wired them into the Accessories port on my Gaugemaster controller, flicked the switch, and in a majestic finale, nothing happened.<br />
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"Have you broken it Dad?" asked young Cameron.<br />
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"Don't switch it back on again until I come back down!" shouts the retreating 7 year old as he tears up the stairs"<br />
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Just before Christmas, my wonderful customer down in Devon asked me if I could "knock up" a better model of the cardboard version he had on his layout of the Network Rail maintenance shed down at Dover Priory.</div>
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It looked a fairly simple build, and as with the signal box, he already had a paper template, so all I had to do was drop it into Illustrator, and redraw...</div>
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The windows, were cut out of self adhesive white vinyl, as per my now standard method, and stuck to a sheet of clear pvc, and glued in place behind the apertures, before gluing on a couple of pieces of 2mm foamex for the roof.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The walls were given a quick blast of grey primer before the windows were fitted. The white bits are where I had to sand off a little.<br />At this point, you can see I've added a masking tape felt roof, but realised it was felted the wrong way, so off it came....</td></tr>
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<br />At this point, the structure was pretty much finished, apart from adding the porch and supports, and detailing it with gutters, downpipes and scratch built fire extinguisher box, cigarette bin, sign and outside lamp...<div>
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Overall, my customer was very pleased with it, and here it is planted on his layout, but not yet properly sunk in to the environment..</div>
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And there you have it, a quick and rundown modern-day depot...</div>
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Well here's the second decrepit, run down and boarded up signal box I hinted at in the previous post.<br />
Having seen the Dover Priory signal box, my new customer contacted me about making another one for his modern image layout. He didn't have anywhere in particular for it on his layout, he just wanted one.<br />
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After digging a bit more out of him, I discovered his layout was loosely based in Lincolnshire, so I talked to him about it, and we decided that although he was happy for a copy of the Dover Box, we could go for a slight change: yellow brick instead of red, the addition of a chimney stack, a single lean-to and a shift of the steps to the left hand side... (Well these were my suggestions, and he was more than happy).<br />
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The build of the shell was identical to the previous box in every aspect - foamex core, SE Finecast brick sheet wrap, windows constructed from self-adhesive vinyl and styrene strip...<br />
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The mesh frames were made by MEKing styrene strip to 1mm etched brass mesh from Scalelink and sprayed carefully with Plasticote primer.<br />
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I used the Lincoln High Street Signal Box as inspiration for the colouring, the chimney stack and the lean-to and steps positioning.<br />
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Well, where did 2014 go?<br />
I know a lot of it for me went in unfinished personal modelling projects, but I was rather pleased with the row of cottages that I salvaged from disaster, and the viaduct.<br />
I then started on a bigger row of cottages, but that go waylaid by a couple of timely commissions, one of which was the Dover Priory Signal Box . Since my last post, my client has been busy siting his new Signal Box onto his layout. He's had to cut out and fill, but I think he's making a marvellous job. There's still a bit more for him to do on the platform facing, and recolouring the platform surface to match the surrounding area, but he's pretty much there.<br />
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If you want to have a look at his epic thread on RMWeb, it's here:<br />
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A lot of my models have been stand alone constructions and have not been bedded in to scenery, so it's been nice to finally see something in-situ.<br />
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Currently I'm building a slightly different version of this box for another client, this time not buried in a platform, but in a traditional stand alone setting...<br />
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I started of course, with my trusted foamex shell, selecting 2mm thick for the purpose of bracing, and then wrapped this with Embossed brick plasticard (SE Finecast Flemish Bond), and there was the brick base complete. Lintels and cills were added with pieces of foamex, let into channels I'd cut in the plasticard/foamex</div>
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Unfortunately I didn't take many great interim pictures of the build, but here's a quick ref pic I sent my customer from the dash of my car, whilst I was waiting to go to the Dentist's. Here I've added a roof from foamex, tiled with individual pieces of paper, added guttering and bargeboards, and started on the lean-tos...</div>
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The roof was given a coat of grey emulsion, before several washes of black to pick out the individual tiles. A lighter grey dry brush followed to bring out some weathering highlights. Finally some moss and lichen was added by first dabbing spots of green/white and then dabbing pva in along the roof line and down both pitches before adding moss-coloured flock.</div>
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It's been a couple of days now since I posted this off down South to my customer, but he recieved it intact today, so I thought I'd share the photos I sent off to him before posting it.<br />
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Following a number of paint coats, I finally decided on an atmospheric green tinge to the stonework witht the mortar showing through quite markedly. This was achieved by firstly painting with an overall base of Wilko's "Safari Sand", followed by a thin wash of Humbrol Weathered Black, then a wash with some artists acylic green added in. Then a light wash of the safari sand was run over the mortar joints to bring out the mortar colours, before finally dry-brushing with a black.green mix.<br />
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The right hand edge of the bridge was to go to the basebaord edge, so I built up a landscape base using foamex formers and some blue cloths glued on with UHU and then plaster of paris painted over the top. A brown emulsion base was added to give a starting point for the scenic work. The opposite side was a different matter, with me having no idea of the scenic landform, so I have left blank and open for the hillside to marry up to it.<br />
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I would have liked to add a road surface to the deck, but as I was sending it as a separate piece I decided it would be better to leave as a blank canvas, especially so as the client's budget didn't run to the additional scenic work ;)<br />
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Today, I also got sent this (unfortunately dark, but atmospheric) shot of the bridge in situ in my customer's loft..,<br />
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unfortunately, whilst being absolutely delighted, he reports that due to a slight technical hitch with measuring, the deck is a tad too long. so it's on its way back to Huddersfield for a little remedial work...<br />
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Recently, I was very pleased to be given my first ever modelling commission following the sale of a couple of double track tunnel portals that I had no room for. There was nothing wrong with them - it's just that as I'd made my track layout 4 wide, I simply had nowhere for them to go and so I playfully offered them for sale on a model rail forum, and they were duly snapped up.</div>
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That same buyer then, some time later, asked me if I could build him a plate girder bridge to traverse 3 three lines acting as a scenic break at the start of his storage area, and I jumped at the chance (I've always wanted to build a plate girder bridge).</div>
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Much to-ing and fro-ing was done with measurements and photographs via email and eventually I arrived at a scale plan of the track area so I could work out the span width. Because it's going on a slight curve, I figured that a slightly skewed bridge would be the order of the day.</div>
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Even though the bridge is a scenic break, the storage area is also scenic, so I was tasked with making both sides. Strangely enough - the first part of this build was the 4 wing walls which I already had a drawing for. These were all hand-scribed onto 3mm foamex and then followed the abutments - again from 3mm foamex.</div>
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I decided to add a little extra detail on the corners and I did this with some 20thou plasticard, cut into 8mm strips and stuck to the foamex with a generous dousing of MEK. Once set, I marked in where the course lined up from the scribed stonework, and then cut out the excess. A generous dousing of MEK at the corner join helped weld the two strips together and again, once fully set, I scratched in the courses with a sharp scalpel. In the end, I think above and beyond the call of duty for the budget, but I believe in quality and I think the extra detail makes the difference.</div>
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Once the stonework courses had all painstakingly been scribed, using my trusted method of set square and dart tip, I then worked up the texture of the stones, again using the dart tip, but instead of scratching in lines as such, I pressed the edge in to emboss detail.</div>
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I won't say this method is very quick, but it's very therapeutic and I found myself picking up a buttress or two to continue scribing whilst waiting for the kettle to boil - any excuse to be in the kitchen!</div>
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The next step was the plate girder - which I was quite excited about - made from Wills' excellent Vari Girder pack. The panels are crisply moulded and once cut off the fret, fit together nicely.</div>
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I then set aide the completed spans to form the bridge deck. Now my customer's budget didn't run to fine scale representation of under bridge detailing, so I decided to represent a passing notion of the supporting girders by fixing on 6mm wide strips of 30thou to the underside. The edges of this would then glue to the edges of the vari girders to form a strong plastic weld.</div>
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Picture the scene - it's now 11.30pm and I'm getting tired and thinking of bed. I'm very pleased with my ingenious cutting of the strips (allowing a slight recess for the edges of the vari girder panels to butt up to, and so it comes to test fitting the deck before gluing onto the girders. What's this? Oh you fool! you've only glued them on to the wrong side (being a skewed deck, it matters!)</div>
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<br />As morning dawned, I found that the sides of the deck had dried out of true, but I think I've fixed that with a bit of gentle persuasion…<div>
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After my last post I've been working hard to fix the mess that my cat did to the row of cottages I had been building.<br />
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This last week. whilst the family has been extreme camping in Staffordshire I 've taken a bit of time to carry on with the row of cottages that my cat so very kindly gave me a kick up the backside to carry on with and having fixed up the end with some pvc pipe weld (very effective at gluing together foamex) I'd got to this stage:<br />
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The joints were the foamex had broken apart had married up very nicely indeed and with a bit of touching up were quite difficult to spot, so I was encouraged to continue.<br />
The roof was pretty easy to fix and I thought I'd strengthen it with another piece of 1mm foamex on top of the one that was already there.<br />
What I hadn't figured on was the glue reacting with the thinner materials and after a roof warping nightmare, where the two layers of laminated 1mm foamex turned into the waviest roof you've ever seen, after I'd individually tiled one side! Undaunted I ripped it all off again and replaced it with a piece of 2mm. I was able to rescue the tiled side as I'd glued them to a piece of paper preprinted with a 1mm grid for alignment, which was then fixed on with double sided tape, and this I was able to carefully peel off the piece of warped foamex. Of course, this then made the gable ends slightly higher which meant a bit of filling and patching, and whilst not perfect, I think it looks OK from a viewing distance.<br />
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I could have glued barge boards on to hide the join, but I wanted to put on prototypical stone end capping, so I hope it comes across as badly weathered stonework ;)<br />
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The roof tiles I'm pretty pleased with, having stuck them on individually and being made from a lightly textured wallpaper we use at work for printing wallpaper graphics.<br />
They were stuck on with pva and then given a coat of Humbrol Earth, before being washed over with a couple of coats of diluted Weathered Black and then dry brushed with Wilkinsons Safari Sand. They still need a bit of weathering up with some more black and perhaps gree, but I'm happy enough with them as they are now to leave it until I can get some materials to finish off the downpipes and door frames...<br />
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In terms of the layout, well I've decided to relay the track yet again, and have gone for a 4 track mainline layout that will cross a viaduct - an unprototypical 4 track viaduct that has now been built and is in the mid-stages of being painted (but more of that in a later post (hopefully)<br />
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Some time ago in my last post I mentioned the building of a row of cottages and I'm pleased to say that progress has been made<br />
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I tried a different technique for this: The elevations have all been plotted with the Roland vinyl cutter - all outlines, window and door openings and all stone courses cut with the plotter. <br />
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One of my young cats got into the garage where I'd left the model, jumped up onto a shelf where I've got some offcuts of wood stored and sent a heavy lump of oak skittering down to the terrace cottage below…</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whitewashed was the way forward</td></tr>
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lnrmodelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849826220916229004noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525098245529106918.post-81767549853054143072014-02-06T08:34:00.002+00:002014-09-10T17:05:02.743+01:00Do you know what I did last Autumn? A sneaky peekI've not posted anything here for ages, and I've got a confession - I HAVE been building something, and I've been posting progress on it over on RMWeb for a bit of active encouragement as I build.<br />
Cross-blogging readers might have noticed I've made reference to a Goods Shed I've been building,<br />
well, I've now finished it, bar a couple of little bits of fettling needed, so here's a sneaky peek:<br />
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I'm waiting for a spot of natural daylight, when it's not tipping with rain or blowing a gale, and then I'll get a couple of decent shots and post a full description.<br />
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It's been a while since I last posted, but I actually finished this model back in the summer - remember that? I was still in the middle of finishing off the canopy on the main station building when I saw a plan one of the members on RMWeb had posted with the intention of building it for his Lincolnshire based layout. Whilst probably not strictly architecturally correct for the LMS and my own layout, I rather liked the look of it, and its pitched roof matched the roof or the main building, so I decided to build it in the same style as my other structure, with stone walls and slate roof.</div>
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Architectural moulding details were added with strips of 1mm foamex and the roof was constructed of more of the same, sanded down flush with the edge of the walls.<br />
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Well the original building I based the station building on, West Worthing, in the fifties had a double canopy at the front, and as of present day, it only retains the single canopy over the main entrance at the top of the steps - the gabled canopy over the steps having long gone:<br />
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So I decided to model it as it is now, being as the model is based loosely at the end of steam and the beginning of Diesel, those terrible denizens of railway bureacracy having decided to strip out the more ornate aspects of Victorian ironmongery.<br />
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Having looked at the prototype, it looks like there's only a single canopy bracket in the centre of the wall, so I began by scratch building the framework from Evergreen Microstrip having made a printed template and laying each part over said template, trimming to fit.<br />
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The framework was next, and at this stage the canopy was starting to take shape. Further sections of 1mm square styrene were added at intervals for the supporting structure, glued at either end of slotted into place<br />
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<br />lnrmodelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849826220916229004noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525098245529106918.post-58754989679555986302013-07-12T13:04:00.001+01:002013-07-12T13:04:40.073+01:00Forgive me Blogger, for I have Sinned......It has been 7 weeks since my last Blog-session...<br />
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...but then again, I have been rather busy on other non-model related activities..<br />
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Yes, the infamous never ending station building...<br />
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After a couple of false starts regarding the colouring and the roof warping, I've finally got something I'm happy with and I could start with fitting the windows back in. The technique was still the same with regards to the frame, but this time I decided to paint the windows rather than just leave them plain white (having since found out that white pigment was hard to come by in the late 50s/60s)<br />
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Once I'd constructed the 3 ply frames out of self adhesive cut vinyl, I then treated them to an undercoat of the Pound Shop's finest grey primer (the vinyl it impossible to paint on untreated) Once dry they had a couple of coats of Humbrol cream acrylic for the inner frame, then with a 000 brush painted the outer frames with crimson. They need a bit of touching up here and there, and a wash of grime to take away the "just painted" look, but I'll do that later under the final touches stage.<br />
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The windows were then fixed to a piece of 1.5mm acrylic (beautifully clear and scratch-free). A bit on the chunky side, but as the interior is not modelled or seen, it isn't really an issue.<br />
These were then superglued in from the reverse, not without the usual issues of getting glue where it shouldn't or even your intrepid protagonist managing to stick his fingers fast to the roof... luckily I managed to extracate myself with only the minimal damage of losing one roof tile. I also managed to do the same thing with the trackside wall and pulled some paint off when unsticking myself... darn it!<br />
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The stonework was treated to several layers of built up colour - having an overall sand colour applied as a base, then washed over with dilute brown. When dry (speeded up with a hair dryer) it was treated to an additional wash of dilute black.</div>
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Once this was dry, I painstakingly went over all the mortar course lines with a dilute magnolia mix, which settled into all the mortar lines. Some were a little clogged from the multiple coats of paint these walls have received, but I think that is perfectly acceptable as it breaks up the uniformity. Once this had all dried it left a tide mark around some of the edges (more noticeably on the track side where it had got really late and I got a bit more urgent in painting, opting to just splash it on rather than follow the mortar courses) which was then hidden with a dry brush of brown black to weather it all up.</div>
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I'd like to post something a bit more complete in terms of a finished model, but it's been such slow progress as of late, what with painting disasters and such like, so I thought I'd show you a Champagne moment - I've finished tiling the roof!</div>
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All the ridge tiles are on, as per my previous explanation, involving cutting 4mm strips of 10 thou, scoring and folding in half, then gluing microstrip on at intervals. Flashing was added to the base of all the chimney stacks, before a Midnight session of Primer spraying in the garage just before bed last night.. "Cough Cough, oops - should have worn a mask..."</div>
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Now I'm torn between starting the painting proper in earnest, or adding the chimney pots first, to get everything painted at the same time. I think I'm tending towards adding the pots last, as there's less chance of them getting knocked off, and it should be easy enough to patch in the painting. I absolutely cannot wait to get painting again now - the left bay roof went really well, so I'll be employing the same colouring there and then going for the stonework!</div>
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Despite the positive comments I received about the initial weathering on the station building both here and over on RMWeb, I decided that it just wasn't right for what I wanted. Maybe it was seeing both the real thing and other modeller's treatment of the same sort of soot-stained stonework, but it just didn't do it for me, so I painted over it all again with a light sandstone colour, then over a period of a couple of days washed over a lighter mix to represent the mortar and once dry, dry brushed over the soot colour. This wasn't right either.<br />
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So, having seen an alternative method over on RMWeb, I painted it sandstone all over (at this stage, I'd got paint all over the windows, so they had to come out). then washed over with a watery mix of black and red with a drop of washing up liquid.. Hmm - this didn't look quite as required...so once again, I worked up several washes of the mortar mix and then set to heavily weathering the stonework.. This time it seemed to go quite well, and I was pretty pleased with it....until of course, I then decided it had gone too far and looked too black<br />
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Having spent hours and hours getting nowhere, I then mixed up a new base colour with a view to trying yet again. At this stage, I still hadn't finished the guttering and tiling the roof, so I decided to abandon painting until I'd finished modelling the main parts.<br />
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So this weekend, has seen a renewed effort in guttering and roof tiling. I've now almost finished tiling the main building (having already finished and painted the right bay), with just the left bay to finish up.</div>
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Since removing the windows, I've developed a slightly better technique for making the windows, giving a little more relief. This time the frames are to be painted cream, so I 'll be making each window up from 6 layers of self adhesive vinyl, then spraying with undercoat and painting them cream, before attaching them to the acetate... It's quite time consuming, but they'll be the very last thing installed this time (after the 89th version of the Stone is complete ;) )<br />
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One final bit I managed over the weekend too - you see on the left hand side of the steps, that little white stone cap? Four weeks ago, I knocked the model whilst getting it off the shelf, that stone cap flew off and disappeared..I've only just got round to cutting and gluing on a new one :)</div>
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Just a quickie, so you know I haven't lost sight of the Station... Tiling has progressed on the roof and is complete on the right bay, with just the chimney to repaint, after i'd got it covered in primer...</div>
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I was struggling a little to get the tiling to overlap the roof enough for the guttering to sit right, as I'd intended to fit the guttering after but then I figured that it was a lot easier to fit the guttering first, then position the first row of tiles on top of this. Painting the completed portion of roof was a lot of fun and comprised an undercoat of cheap Poundshop grey primer, washed over with dilute black acrylic, then dry brushed with a mix of grey and magnolia emulsion with some blue artists' acrylic mixed in to give it that Slatey tinge..</div>
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I was working on adding some scenic material to the base and thought, like the brilliant <a href="http://www.iainrobinsonmodels.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Cowes%20Signal%20Box" target="_blank">Cowes box by Iain Robinson</a> upon which this model is based, it required just a couple of extra touches to bring it to life. I'd already built the lamp hut as you know, and thought it could do with a couple of oil barrels next to it. I originally hoped to make my own, but experimentations failed in this respect and I thought I was going to have to order some from Langley, but then last night whilst sticking yet another row of slates on to the Station roof, I had a Eureka moment.... About 25+ years ago I was really into collecting Airfix 1:72 scale model soldiers and associated military vehicles. I had grand plans of creating World War 2 Africa conflict dioramas and had Eighth Army and Afrika Korps armies, Tanks, Guns etc. Amongst all this stuff, which I've still got in the loft, I had a recollection that I had an Italieri Diaroma kit, still half on sprue, that I felt sure had some barrels. A quick delve into the loft garnered fruit! I was right! I unearthed 8 barrels, unfortunately poly cemented together by my 11 year old self, but I hadn't done that bad a job on them, so a quick sand down, a spray of undercoat (Matt grey from the Pound Shop) and a dry brush with light grey, followed by a thin wash of black and a final dry brush with Humbrol Rail colour rust, and Robert was indeed your Mother's Uncle.. Planted in place with a dab of UHU and a sprinkling of scenic scatter and course turf around the base of the buildings and I was done!</div>
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Oh, one last thing - I added a nameplate, printed of on photographic paper and weathered down with a thin wash of dilute black, then blotted back with a sheet of Kitchen towel.<br />
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...And the station? Well, I'm 50% of the way through tiling the roof, but I've run out of Evergreen Half-round until payday, but I've some fiddly roof bracketry (don't know the right term) to add under the eaves to keep me occupied. Maybe I'll photograph some progress shots in the next couple of days...<br />
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lnrmodelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849826220916229004noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525098245529106918.post-17655481527854842882013-05-03T00:27:00.000+01:002013-05-03T00:27:49.345+01:00The Joy of ShedsWell, not sheds, huts. Lamp Huts to be precise.<br />
And yeah, I nicked the title off Iain Robinson... I'm sure he won't mind, but yes I can totally see the joy in sheds and little huts.<br />
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I decided what my (unfinished) Signal box really needed was a lamp hut, and having researched a little came up with the dimensions for the hut - 6ft wide by 9ft deep. Now, all I needed were the materials to build it...<br />
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The core is the trusty 2mm foamex with sides and ends cut and superglued together. To provide a bow roof, I superglued a piece of 10 thou to formers glued between the walls for strength. For the corrugated iron, I could have used styrene sheets -fine for the walls -but what about the roof? Again I am indebted to the wonderful Iain Robinson who suggested fashioning corrugated sheet out of Kitchen foil embossed over strips of wire. A quick search on youtube resulted in a great video of a guy making 1:50 scale corrugations using cocktail sticks...wrong scale, but right technique.<br />
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Off I went down to the local Pound Emporium to find their foil was very flimsy, but what they did have were some foil serving trays - absolutely ideal - thin enough for scale thickness but rigid enough to accept embossing. A trip next door to Asda resulted in a coil of garden wire for the embossing. This stuff is stiff wire with a plastic coating -as it comes, it's ideal for scale soil pipes - the 6inch stuff, but for corrugated iron embossing would need to be stripped - and then it's ideal for downpipes! This stuff is a bargain at just a pound.<br />
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Getting it home and making a start on the jig, I encountered difficulties in getting the wire straight enough for purpose. I just couldn't seem to get enough of them dead straight, so I abandoned that idea and looked again to my trusty pvc foam board for help. I printed off a set of lines I'd drawn in Illustrator 1.5mm apart and stuck them to the piece of pvc foam. I then used a ball point pen (rounded tip you see) and a ruler to heavily draw lines into the foamex and leave an imprint. After I'd got my imprint, I taped a piece of trimmed tin foil to the jig, small enough so I could see the lines top and bottom and followed the lines on the foil with my pen. The result is a believable piece of corrugated tin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the little fella with a blast of Poundshop grey primer. Hinges and catch made from 10 thou plasticard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the Primed hut next to the Signal box steps. (Signal box steps still need final painting and gluing to the box. I've thrown away the door again. Mark V will be glued in the open position...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bit of dry brushing over the primer grey with a light grey gave a good base decoration</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rust was liberally, but subtly (this is not a completely rusted to hell hut as yet) applied using Humbrol Rail Acrylic Rust colour with a dry brush</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really like this view. I've now got added incentive to finish the steps and get the whole mini diaroma sceniced up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the hut in it's solitary glory</td></tr>
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I'm really really pleased with how this turned out, and there's nothing else to do on it now, but bed it into a base. One of the most pleasing things for me was the top vent. I cut a piece of plastic tubular lolly stick I'd been saving for modelling purposes, and cut 3mm off the end. I then superglued this to a piece of 2mm foamex. Once stuck solid, I trimmed the foamex roughly around until I was left with about 1mm of material all the way round, then I took a sanding block and hand sanded around the edge until it was mostly circular. Then, here came the fun part. I put the lolly stick end in the chuck of a battery drill and tightened it up leaving the rough side up, switching to top speed I fired it up and then introduced the sanding block to the foamex, sanding it circular. Then I could angle the block to shape the conical top - voila. Then it was simply a matter of supergluing to the roof and priming.<br /><br /></div>
lnrmodelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849826220916229004noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525098245529106918.post-91149886097891886382013-04-29T17:12:00.000+01:002013-04-29T17:12:14.790+01:00Scratch-building steps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
A quick update to show the signal box steps I scratch built last night. Evergreen square section (0.40x0.40") for the posts and rails, and strips of 0.20x0.80" for the steps and sides. The landing sections were cut from 0.40" sheet. It doesn't quite sit square, but for a first attempt at building steps, I'm more than happy with it. A little light sanding will now follow, then a dusting of grey primer before painting.</div>
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You'll also notice a bit of dry brushing has occured on the roof to pick out the tiles, and also the cocktail stick and masking tape stove pipe has had masking tape flashing applied (still to paint)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">just through the door, you can see the foamex stove that's fallen over...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The door is still a work in progress. Still not happy with this version, although may just fettle this one to fit now<br /><br /></td></tr>
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<br />lnrmodelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849826220916229004noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7525098245529106918.post-9690327357343494242013-04-26T15:51:00.001+01:002013-04-26T15:53:48.941+01:00What's this? A new update from Lee?Well it's been a bit of a no progress slog of late as I've documented roofing disasters with both station and now the signal box. I realised that my slates on the 'box didn't overlap the edges enough for them to make the guttering look realistic, so off came the roof and a better one was constructed.<br />
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The station? I've got that back to the point it was before I ripped the whole roof off in anger (well not the whole roof, just the sagging one) and have strengthened it all with plasticard. I'm just going to have to work out how the guttering works out around the building before I commit to starting to tile... so an update on the station will be forthcoming once I've got the roof slates on.<br />
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As for the Signal box - I completely rebuilt the roof, making it a complete removeable unit and giving it a dusting with a tin of aerosol primer (after handmaking the guttering from Evergreen Half round and gluing on 1mm strips of 10thou plasticard for brackets - a most satisfying exercise.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The completely rebuilt roof complete with tiles from 150gsm paper and guttering from evergreen half round. Note shoddy red paintwork overlapping onto cream and lack of front windows and doors. I tore these out due to them not being quite right</td></tr>
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The stone base is painted and finished now, and I'm almost done with the cream and crimson, but not too happy with the oversplash onto the white window frames. In Hindsight I shouldn't have been so hasty to fit the windows and painted the frames first.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A bit of weathering added to the cream paintwork and two battens affixed for the telephone insulator pots. Roof painted grey, but the paint has filled in some of the vertical tile edges, so I may go back over with a sharp scalpel, just to define the tiles a bit more. Windows are now back in the front, but no door, and you may have spotted it - still no steps...</td></tr>
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I must admit to guessing where the stovepipe went, going for centre rear, and drilled a 3mm hole squarely through the roof, before installing a cocktail stick to serve as the pipe. I wasn't going to detail the interior, but closer photography shows the inside too much so I have for now given it a basic interior cladding, with further detailing to come<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the box. Not looking too bad, but that window there is annoying me again. I'd better not peer too closely at it from this angle, or I'm likely to go insane.</td></tr>
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So, so far, pretty happy with it - still loads to do, not least build the steps, but I think it's going to look right at home on my layout eventually.<br />
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Signal Boxes are fun...<br />
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AND NOW - OVER 3000 VIEWS! ( yes I know a lot of them are spambots, but still I thank all you humans for reading :) )<br />
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