Bagshot station build

Peter Insole

Western Thunderer
Where are the weeks going this summer? I seem to have been busy, but not a lot of visual progress to show for it!

Mind you, a big milestone (I didn't say millstone did I?) in the style of Chigwell but with the name of Love Lane Station building is at last replete with some half decent weathered brickwork all over! I finished rather late and got the distinct impression that it was time to leave when JB switched the lights off last night, so no photo's this time I'm afraid! My sentiments on departure were a mixture of relief at the end of a marathon, a sense of "Whew, I just about got away with it" to a sort of hazy, drugged up euphoria that was the result of spending most of the day inhaling the fumes from enamel thinners!

I have consequently suffered from an appalling headache since this morning, so decided that the hair of a dog principle might work, and did some more painting on Bagshot!

Earlier, I hade made some lockers for the porter's room. I could not find a single image showing those essential fittings, and bearing in mind how small and cramped the room is decided to copy the type of box with a seat-lid that the LSWR provided for their signalmen!

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As the interior has to be accessible these boxes have been fitted to the walls. The angled chimney breast has dictated a specific order of dismantling, and I found that the things got in the way. I realised later that it would have looked a lot more sensible to have placed the twins on the outer wall, and the extra one in the location seen above! Too late now, as moving them will rip the mount-board and require some significant patch re "plastering"!

Yes, believe it or not I have chosen a limit to the realism that I am prepared to attempt here!!

I have also spent a while weathering the hob-grate with some suitable ash, soot and a bit of rust:

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And finally some paint all over everything...

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I have knocked and chipped some paint off here and there and included some key bunch scrapes, now I need to add some muddy boot scuffs!

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And should I paint a tide mark in the sink...?

Pete.
 

Pencarrow

Western Thunderer
Pete, absolutely stunned by the quality of your workmanship and attention to detail.

Cracking stuff.

I've got a 7mm model of Bodmin North to build and intend adding an interior. Where on earth did you get interior photos and details from?
 

Simon

Flying Squad
It would be lovely to see this in the flesh, any chance you and it could accompany Derek to the G1 AGM?

I'll be there:cool:

Really lovely work, wonderfully believable and all done without solder:p

Simon
 

Peter Insole

Western Thunderer
Thank you so much Chris and Simon. In the art world, we are used to being presented only with finished works! In this case, if we reserve that "Da-dah" unveiling moment for maximum impact, everyone will end up waiting an awful long time! I cannot see any harm showing this as a work in progress, so maybe? Exhibitions always terrify me, so I might be found hiding under a table somewhere, but could be persuaded to come out now and then for a biscuit and a nice chat!

Chris, Bodmin sounds interesting and should be good fun, but like Bagshot reference will be a problem to solve. So few photo's of interiors were taken and even fewer published. This project has involved an inordinate amount of detective work. For example, it has only been possible to locate where sanitary items were fitted by looking for clues like overflow pipes, drain and manhole covers and even repaired tarmac areas, then study plumbing practice to work out the most likely positions. You may have a slight advantage of modelling a better documented station in a more popular part of the country? Railway enthusiasts seemed to have almost wilfully avoided poor old Baggers! For fittings, search for appropriate period style furnishings. Sometimes, seeing an item triggers a memory from those distant and sad times when derelict stations were ten a penny and available for thorough exploration! The last fall back has been looking out for any and all LSWR collectables that can be found on railway auction sites, ebay and a few good museum collections. In the absence of any other evidence, an object could be regarded as the most likely candidate for installation by simply being familiar!

Pete.
 

Pencarrow

Western Thunderer
Thanks for the reply Pete. I have the Bodmin North station drawings from the South West Circle and these at least give the interior walls and room description so that's a start. You've obviously done a lot of detective work into the interior appearance and furniture. If I get really stuck I can see your modelled items coming in useful as pointers for my own lesser (and smaller) efforts.

Very impressed with your toilets, cooker Belfast sink and ticket office.

Thanks, Chris
 

Peter Insole

Western Thunderer
Chris, I would be extremely happy if anything that I have trawled up over the years could be useful to you.

I hope you will be posting it here when you get started?

Pete.
 

Peter Insole

Western Thunderer
Chris, I have just asked an extraordinarily daft question, just proving that I should read before I post! If I had, I would have already known that you are clearly a grand master of architectural modelling!!

Please forgive me,

Pete.
 

Peter Insole

Western Thunderer
The light is fading now, so no more mixing paint! Only one porter's room item started today, then that will be it for the time being. I have been putting off making a start on the big sash windows. They are still only ideas, and I'm not sure whether the experiment will work or not!

Meanwhile, this little cupboard fits nicely under the drainer. It will be an essential home for the vim, scrubbing brush and all sorts of cleaning stuff to live! It is not a genuine LSWR fitting, rather just a plain ordinary bit of period furniture (that in this case came from an Auntie's house) and typical of the recycling/salvage that members of station staff used to engage in to improve their working environment!

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A perfect fit, that will do nicely! The one at home has a faded off-cut of floral curtain material attached along the top edge with drawing pins. But that touch would perhaps be a bit too homely for this workplace?
Admittedly, if I copied that feature it would save me time and bother, but I'm rather looking forward to making all the shelf contents later!

I have also started to add the grime to the walls as well. Can hardly call it weathering, as it is indoors?

The sink really was far too white, so has been toned down now. I tried to get a bit of a tide line inside, but it just came out slightly grubby instead!

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I was particularly pleased with the gunk under the sink. Even happy as a pig... ?!

Pete.
 

Pencarrow

Western Thunderer
Chris, I have just asked an extraordinarily daft question, just proving that I should read before I post! If I had, I would have already known that you are clearly a grand master of architectural modelling!!

Please forgive me,

Pete.

No worries Pete, not sure about the grand master bit, I think you're in a different league from the stuff I've built.
 

simond

Western Thunderer
The stove, and the chat about teapots & stuff, takes me back to being a rather small boy some 50 odd years ago, and the back room at my Nan's shop in Vittoria St in Birkenhead. I do wish I'd take photos before it was demolished, but the road to hell...

But back to the point - the smell of long-boiled tea, the conical, white enamel tea pot with stains...

Or was it aluminium...?
 

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
T... the conical, white enamel tea pot with stains...
Or was it aluminium...?
White enamel pot? Tea? seems likely.
Aluminium? More likely to be for coffee... In the mid-late 60s there was a thing for utensils made from Ally and "percolators" appeared in the new fangled stuff.
 

Peter Insole

Western Thunderer
Yet more on the subject of teapots: The last couple of replies got me looking on the web for a suitable candidate to adorn the porter's room table, (when I make it!) despite having said that I won't be doing any more furnishings for that place for a while!

I found myself falling about laughing, then became rather sad:

It is all to clear that the new generation think that a thing we call a "Kettle" has always been something made of plastic, is tall and upright with a wire coming out near the bottom and that to make the essential brew requires little paper parcels in a mug!

Anything that is sort of rounded, made of metal and has a handle on top and a spout on the side must surely be a "Teapot" or even a "Coffeepot?!

I suddenly feel very old and past my sell-by date!

Pete.
 

JimG

Western Thunderer
White enamel pot? Tea? seems likely.
Aluminium? More likely to be for coffee... In the mid-late 60s there was a thing for utensils made from Ally and "percolators" appeared in the new fangled stuff.

The teapot I worked with in my teaboy days in the early 1960s was a large angular aluminium one with, probably, a black Bakelite handle, and it wasn't new then and had probably seen service for a good few years before I came on the scene. :) It took four large spoons of tea to make a brew acceptable to all. Water had to be straight off the boil and into the pot, then the pot stirred quite vigorously - this to get all the leaves into the centre of the pot bottom to minimise leaves being poured. The kettle was an electric one of the 40s/50s period.

In a slightly earlier life I worked in a plumbers shop in the local distillery where tea was drunk from tin cans and no pot was used, the kettle being poured into the cans with the leaves already in. The cans only really became acceptable for drinking when the inside was black. :)

Tea on a Scottish west coast fishing boat later in life - leaves in a mug, water from a kettle on a stove and a huge dollop of condensed milk to provide milk and sugar in one efficient movement with no spillage. :)

Jim.
 

Peter Insole

Western Thunderer
Just a quick post before I get ready for my day job!

Mick was right, I can't resist so I've been drawing up kettles, teapots, cups and a milk bottle (early 60's style) as well as a table to put them on!

Pete.
 

simond

Western Thunderer
I suspect that there were very few pre-war aluminium utensils around in the 50's as they would have been made into aircraft parts following the wartime campaigns to collect metal.

Was there a proliferation of enamelware as a result of this campaign?

I guess as the surviving aircraft were decommissioned, they may well have been turned into new cook-ware, for which I believe there was a ready market.

Best
Simon
 
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