Dublingham Goods Station

Simpas

Western Thunderer
Tony,

I've just tried that and it works - thank you very much......champion...!

I do wish I was better at these forum type things but then you see I'm retired and have little or no time to spare......:rant:

Mick S.
 

76043

Western Thunderer
Kempston show was today, went quite well, but some new stock caused trouble on the points with droopy couplings and my recent timetable revision didn't quite work out, one shunting move was in the wrong place.

I've painted my temporary buildings a dark grey architectural modelmaking style.

Tony

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Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
and my recent timetable revision didn't quite work out, one shunting move was in the wrong place.

The joker in the pack...:)

I've painted my temporary buildings a dark grey architectural modelmaking style.

I think these will look good when the Scalescenes brickpaper has been applied. The Cattle/loading dock looks good in situ.

And the brickpapers are in keeping with the layout style.
 

76043

Western Thunderer
I think these will look good when the Scalescenes brickpaper has been applied. The Cattle/loading dock looks good in situ.

And the brickpapers are in keeping with the layout style.

Thanks Dave, I am going to use the Scalescenes building kits in their entirety rather than cover these old Hornby buildings. Their Goods shed for example is strangely exactly the same length as the Hornby one, so I'm doubling the length to use as a Perishable depot in the same way I have used two Hornby ones. The low relief warehouse is much taller than these Hornby things so will dominate the background quite nicely I think.

Tony
 
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76043

Western Thunderer
More progress on the cattle dock. Now the horizontal rails are way over-scale, but the holes in the Ratio posts are similarly over-scale. So I thought, rather than use wire, I'll use 1mm styrene rod to enable the whole thing to be robust and importantly for me, the rails would be parallel. I wanted it to be strong in case the hand of God uncoupling device strikes it. All the horizontal rails are in single sections, bent down to form the ramp section, also for strength. The posts were drilled at an angle to accommodate the ramp.

Next, paint, which once the horizontal rails are much darker and rusty should make them look less bulky. Then the whole set of rails can be glued to the base.

The Ratio kit also provides water taps and cow pats, so these will be added too.

Tony

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76043

Western Thunderer
The viewblock building is now finished, this will obscure to some extent the fiddle yard entrance. I needed a polygon shaped building, so luckily found one of the ScaleScenes kits had the shape I needed. I digitally modified it using Affinity Designer, taking out the features I didn't need or have space for, moving a top floor window to the end. I added PECO gutters on the side facing the viewer and Evergreen downpipes.

From this: (image © 2019 Scalescenes - All Rights Reserved)

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To this, this is the viewing side:

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And this: (image © 2019 Scalescenes - All Rights Reserved)

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To this: this end won't be seen, so happy for it to be a plain brick wall.

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Simpas

Western Thunderer
Tony,

Excellent work, I always like to see how commercial products get 'enhanced' and you've done a canny job here making it do what you want it to do.

Happy New Year.

Mick S.
 

76043

Western Thunderer
Mick, thank you. It's quite a bit of fun modifying these kits, and quite quick in this case as I left off most of the platforms, windows etc.

I've started the next job, which is to turn the ScaleScenes Goods Shed into a Perishable depot by making it twice the length and using laser cut windows that have flat tops instead of arches. I'll also drop the office on the end, which will be replaced with a Wills wooden shed that looks like the shed on the end of the milk dock at Torrington, but more of this in due course.

Happy New Year to you too.
Tony
 

76043

Western Thunderer
Lovely model, very low pitch for a slate roof.

Thank you Peter, yes, I guess it is quite a low pitch. Does this cause trouble with the water tightness of slate or some other reason? Not being an architect I'd be interested to know.

I hadn't changed this part of the kit, so it's vanila ScaleScenes.
Cheers
Tony
 

Peter Cross

Western Thunderer
Not to much, as long as the slates have a bigger lap, it's the wind that is the main culprit. Blowing the rain up hill. The pitches used to indicate regions. Very steep where there was snow, not quite so steep lots of rain, shallow pitches less rain more sun. As design and different materials have come in so pitches have changed more, but no doubt you could always find a building that went against the general rules.
 
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