4mm Teignmouth sea wall.

Wishyouwerehere · 16 June 2015

Hi folks,
its my first attempt to show you a layout that i have been building.I don't really know how this works but here goes.It is the section of sea wall between Teignmouth station and Parsons tunnel.It is 28 feet long.
If i can manage it,pictures will follow.
Any responses that i get may not been replied to for several days.I don't live on my computer.

Wishyouwerehere · 16 June 2015

Sorry, I am having trouble uploading pictures,it keeps saying file to large,can anyone help.I am taking them from a memory stick,photographed on a canon camera.

Rob Pulham · 16 June 2015

Hi Wish You were Here, you will need to resize them to allow them to be uploaded. I resize to 1024 x 768 as being a decent size for viewing without taking long to load on even slower connections.
I use Picasa to do this which is a free program downloaded from the web.

40126 · 16 June 2015

Welcome WYWH :thumbs:

Steve

Wishyouwerehere · 17 June 2015

All being well we should have a picture of Parson's tunnel, Teignmouth.

Neil · 17 June 2015

We do, and it looks very well.

Rob Pulham · 17 June 2015

I really like the impression of the tide line with the wet rocks :thumbs:

Dan Randall · 18 June 2015

Very nice. I like the open cab door too - I'm planning to do that on a future Western build. :thumbs:

Regards

Dan

Wishyouwerehere · 18 June 2015

Rob Pulham said:
Hi Wish You were Here, you will need to resize them to allow them to be uploaded. I resize to 1024 x 768 as being a decent size for viewing without taking long to load on even slower connections.
I use Picasa to do this which is a free program downloaded from the web.

Thanks Rob for the help in resizing my photo's to enable me to post them.I struggled with Picasa but then tried 'PICRESIZE' and found this easier to use.

Captain Kernow · 19 June 2015

Very convincing reproduction of the prototype location indeed.

The Penguin Of Doom · 19 June 2015

Have to agree.

Very nice picture and very convincing too.

Cheers.

Sean.

BCN-Pete · 21 June 2015

Looks great - having taken a number of family holidays to Dawlish and Teignmouth as a teenager it brings back fab memories so am looking forward to see more pics.

Staying tuned for more

Wishyouwerehere · 21 June 2015

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I have been building this layout for 3 years now.It has been made portable with the possibility of exhibiting maybe some time in the future.The scenic section is 28 feet long,being split into 4 sections,yes they are quite heavy but only has 3 joints to worry about.It is far from finished but i feel that the hard work is now done.It will have a complete circuit with fiddle yard/storage sidings at the back.At the moment i am working on the curves to link up with the fiddle yard.The scenic section is in a basic state at present with hanging basket liner fixed on the cliffs.This needs alot of detailing with scenic materials to bring it to life.I will be posting images of the build as it progressed.Here are a few to wet your appetite.Also included is an aerial view of the section of railway which i am trying to recreate albeit in a shortened form.View attachment 45287

mickoo · 21 June 2015

Used to live there so know it quite well

I never did work out why they built Sprey Point, such an odd and very large piece of infrastructure to build and with a boat slip too.

I've not seen that shot from Shaldon Ness before :thumbs:

Even harder to believe that in the very top right behind Holcombe you can just see the River Exe Estuary.

It will be interesting to see this one develop with it being such an iconic location.

Best, Mick

Compton castle · 21 June 2015

One of my favourite stretches of railway line, I modeled this a few years ago now in my old railway museum. It's an iconic section and your doing a great job

adrian · 21 June 2015

There's some serious carpentry going on there. It looks like it's going to be a great sweeping vista - truly a railway in the landscape style layout.

Wishyouwerehere · 22 June 2015

View attachment 45373 Yes there has been some serious carpentry.Underneath the boards are 2 lengths of studwork timber [a sort of chassis] the ends of which run underneath the neighbouring board to line everything up nicely and also keeps them the same height without using dowels or bolts.
The legs slot snugly into holes and are joined together with strips of ply,[but not in this shot].

Wishyouwerehere · 22 June 2015

The cliffs are built using plywood formers covered in chicken wire,then paper mache and two layers of glassfire.The end result is a very strong , light structure.This is later covered in a mixture of pva,my own mix of south devon coloured emulsion and sand [to give texture].

adrian · 22 June 2015

Thanks for posting that - I like that last photo, a fair amount of progress on the landscape and yet no track laid!

Wishyouwerehere · 29 June 2015

Some more pictures of my layout.,,These are the steps that lead down from the top of the sea wall onto a raised footway passing under the bridge to access smugglers lane.

The bridge pillars had been strengthened to give extra protection from stormy seas.I used slaters 7mm stone walling,warmed in hot water and rolled it around a piece of copper tubing to form the front of the wall.

A bit of colour and weathering really brings out the texture of the stone.

The red sand coloured cliffs in this view have been painted with my mixture of pva glue,emulsion and sand and then partly covered in hanging basket liner which was purchased from ebay off the roll [approx 1 metre wide].

Track starting to be laid.More on this later.

Sea defence rocks are wickes cotswold stone chippings.

Parson's tunnel.The headland which it passes through is known as Hole Head.

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