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LarryG

Western Thunderer
Building a bridge while there's time. The brickwork is all laser cut from spare sheets while the pillars and sloping retaining walls are from a bridge kit. The kit is designed for any O gauge track and so it has to be reduced in height to suit. I cut the side walls with a right angle cut using a saw, but seeing as they slope back as a batter and are also at an angle to the track, the angle of cut has to be changed (see biro lines) otherwise the pillars will not be perfectly upright. Parts taped together before going into the circular saw...
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Set up waiting for PVA to set hard after determining an angle for the side walls...
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All the cutting was done with a saw (gently) from the brick side of the sheet. A knife risks damaging and loosing bricks....
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Dry run with the span built from parts in the kit...
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And this time with a span knocked up from Wills Varigirder panels and plastikard...
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Dave Holt

Western Thunderer
Larry.
I don't know the area being modelled, but to me, the grey Wills version, with the rivets in the panel stiffeners, looks the better option.
Dave.
 

LarryG

Western Thunderer
I agree now Dave. Winding down this past week or so has left the bridge high and dry for a while. A bigger hole was cut in the shed wall to suit O gauge and the bridge shoved onto the hole to test for various things. Next year will see if it develops into full fat or low-relief. The scenery outside is glued to the walls of the weather cover...
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LarryG

Western Thunderer
I recommend trying laser cut brick sheets where large expanses of brick are needed. Cement courses are narrower too. I found it preferable to laminating embossed styrene brick sheet with the risk of bubbles or worse. I think I read somewhere that Intentio have a thinner sort of laser cut brick sheet that is easier to cut.
 

LarryG

Western Thunderer
Christmas cards written, addressed and either delivered or posted, I did a quickie for a wet afternoon! Intentio coal bunkers in 7mm scale. This is my third and it has been made sturdier with strengthening sleepers along the base. They will probably butt up to the track sleepers and make this area easier to keep tidy. Assembled with UHU Wood glue...
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LarryG

Western Thunderer
The cal bunker was distressed this morning using a fine file, back of a knife and two screw drivers. I simply punched the wood as if the smaller screw driver were an pneumatic drill. The larger screwdriver was drawn between the sleepers to widen the grooves in places. The corners of used sleepers were usually worn rounded off...

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Winter lighting (frost on the coal) shows the colouring of bunker sleepers along with shovel and other marks. One might assume coal bunkers were blackened, but apparently coal washes down when it rains and does not appear to stain the timbers...
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LarryG

Western Thunderer
Primed and sprayed with cellulose matched to PPC 'Rusty Rails'....

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Weathering done with PPC 'Dirty black', sometimes diluted ~ sometimes not, and wiped off. PPC 'Rusty Rails' lightened with matt white and dry-brushed along top edges of bunker. Fibre brush used to cut though and lighted areas affected by manpower... Sorted!
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LarryG

Western Thunderer
The station building was built on a flat surface and yet one end would not 'sit-down' on the platform. I checked that flat surface today and it is not flat. Shock-horror....Constant use had caused the workbench to bow. An extra row of bricks has been added along the base and filed down...

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Not wishing to add the smell of cellulose to the house at mealtime, I roughly mixed some enamel (PPC light brick red/white/dirty black) for the new bricks. Another job out 'at way...
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