Louville Lane Cameo

[jonte]

Hi Jonte, the brick is the colour it was in the kit Either, wills or Walthers. The slight lightness is caused when I apply the mortar (described 2 pages back post 135) I then go over some of the bricks with coloured pencils, various shades of brown or dark red and black.

I see. Thanks, Alan

Jonte

 

[Alan]

Visited Tim Horn yesterday to pick up the extensions for the back scene and side pieces to make them square as to the original design. At the moment ply pieces haave been glued to act as cleats for the new pieces to be glued in place, this will happen tomorrow when there should be some photos. When that is done I can think very seriously about the back scene itself. I'm thinking of painting it on very heavy lining paper with emulsion paint or acrylics. the advantage of using the lining paper is that it is relatively cheap so if the first effoet is not to my liking I can do it again at little cost.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

I'm thinking of painting it on very heavy lining paper with emulsion paint or acrylics.

I always use the heaviest lining paper with artists acrylics.

If you are going to paint the the backscene away from the board I would suggest mounting it on a sheet of plain board with masking tape around the edges (as watercolour artists do). Paint/wash the first layer then leave to dry. When drying the paper will stretch leaving it flat and then finish the painting.

I have also mounted the lining paper onto the backscene with wallpaper paste and painted the backscene once dry. This is more difficult since maintaining the perspective gets trickier due to the lack of space as you get closer to the baseboard/backscene join.

 

[Alan]

Thanks Dave. This the first time I'll have done it like this. On Wencombe the layout was big enough to paint directly onto the backscene which was already attached to the layout.

 

[Alan]

As promised a couple of photos of the new back scene addition.

firstly the attachment cleats glued in place



Finally the new addition itself in place



This raises the back by just over 3 inches making the back scene some 15 inches high and the total height of the layout from the lower track level 18inches

 

[Alan]

I have experimented with adding a paper building n the far corner as part of the rest of the station buildings A slightly scaled down photo of the parcels office. I'm assuming they would have been built at the same time so they would be as one so to speak.



I am thinking about chopping a bit off the Grand Hotel so that there would be a road going to the Parcels office. A personal hate of mine is when there appears to be no way vehicles can get to a place they are meant to be.

A couple of photos of the new addition to the loco fleet Warship. She needs some light weathering and she may change her name and number.

1st alongside Western Queen.



and a personal portrait.

 

[jonte]

I like the way the individual rows of buildings impart depth to the scene as they recede towards the back-drop, Alan.

Very natty.

Regards,

Jonte

 

[Alan]

Another loco has been added to "the Lane" a Heljan Maroon D1010 Western Campaigner, well that 's what it will become. Second hand from Hattons as Western Queen, but with an unopened pack of etched number/name plates for D1010 and all the bits. The only "damage is a the glazing from one of the route indicator boxes has been lost. Easy to knock up. It does run beautifully and looks unused. I'll post photos when I've added the bits and nameplates etc.

 

[Alan]

As promised a photo of D1010 Western Campaigner Now obviously renamed and the bits fitted on the front.







So that is now three locos that need weathering, Sprightly, Foxhound (to be renamed Royal Naval Reserve 1859-1959) and now Western Campaigner.



Also had a quick play around with Stubby's idea of having the road to the Parcels area coming under the background buildings. I still might lop off a bit of the Hotel though. I did by using a photo and modifying it and creating the tunnel and outing a Scamell down it.







If I do decide to use it will need much more work on the photo

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Also had a quick play around with Stubby's idea of having the road to the Parcels area coming under the background buildings. I still might lop off a bit of the Hotel though. I did by using a photo and modifying it and creating the tunnel and outing a Scamell down it.

The yard entrance under the building looks very effective .

Rather than cut the hotel down why not add a loading door/bay for laundry, food etc and turn it into the rear of the hotel. Then you can have British Railways laundry service vans with linen baskets and/or grocery vans.

 

[Alan]

Thought provoking Dave.

 

[Alan]

I thought it was about time to see how and if the back scene could be accommodated. As mentioned before the idea is to use very heavy lining paper. So I cut a sheet 9ft 6 inches x 15 inches and started to play. The idea was that I had left a slot at the back of the layout for the back scene to slot down into. DOOOOOOOH I had put there were places that I had not. so these were marked and the paper was cut to get round my offending stupidity. Second time it all seemed to work. So there is hope when this becomes the template for the real back scene it will work. I am wondering how to stick it down whether with wallpaper paste or diluted PVA or even spray mount. At the moment it is held with clips. In the mean time I'll leave it up to allow me to sketch a few ideas.

 

[Stubby47]

I tried spot-gluing my backscene on Tinner's Forge. I didn't get the alignment quite right and ended up with odd billows in the backscene. These have mostly been eradicated...

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

I am wondering how to stick it down whether with wallpaper paste or diluted PVA or even spray mount.

I always use wallpaper paste as it allows you to manoeuvre the paper.

I've found PVA crinkles the paper and a spray mount adheres on contact - making fine tuning nigh on impossible.

 

[Alan]

Thank you Dave.

 

[Alan]

Thank you also Stu.

 

[Simpas]

Whenever I can grab a few minutes it's always rewarding to see how this is making really good progress - there's going to be a busy little scene here when this gets populated with stock.

Can I respecfully add my weight to the wallpaper paste suggestion (having made a bit of a mess of sticking my first backscene on and being able to remove it easily because I used said medium)

Mick S.

 

[Alan]

Will bare that in mind Mick. I will be attempting the back scene in a couple of weeks, other things to do first. When it is done then starts the work of making things far more permanent and the detailing will begin.

 

[Alan]

Just a couple of questions to those of you who kindly suggested using wallpaper paste. Do you size, ie paint the backboards before doing the deed and secondly, I know this sounds odd but do you apply the paste to the backboard and then place the back scene on it or do you, as you would with wallpaper, paste the back scene? Would it make any difference to the stickiness. Personally I think I might prefer the fomer.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

I always paste the backboard after sanding it first. This avoided pasted paper being taken over the layout and I did not size the backboard.