Louville Lane Cameo

Alan

Western Thunderer
That shadow is caused by the photos being taken by th the room lightss, when the lid goes on with 3 LED strips one almost against the backscene, the shadows will look different.
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
More work on the canopy today, almost ready to join the two halves together. There will be photos.
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
I'm wondering whether I dare show these photos on here amongst all you skilled craftsmen and women of the bodging that has taken place to join the two halves together. The only good thing is that when the right way up and in position none of this will be seen hopefully????



I first had the idea that the trusses from the Dapol platform awning kit (which had given me the pitch for my roof) would be man enough to hold the two halves together.







I had always thought that I would use Gorrilla Tape (other tapes are available) to hinge the halves together. It was after I had done that I had doubts as to the strength of the Dapol trusses with the amount of gluing area. I then spotted the original roof for the engine shed and the pitch looked pretty similar to my roof and when placed inside it was an exact fit, so I had the bright idea of sawing it up and using it for strengthening purposes.







It is a Bodge but when turned up the right way and placed on the layout none of this will be seen.
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
Almost finished, the top of the ridge has been glued into place. The white line on the peak of the roof. £/32 inch plastic tube with 30 thou brass rod super glued inside to give some rigidity. All it needs now is painting. Some end boards have been cut (on the platform in photo 1) to finish the concourse end off. that will be covered with a glazed roof.











It fits and hasn't yet fallen apart, it has been on and off a couple of times, and I'm pleased to say you can't see the underneath
 

jonte

Western Thunderer
Looks as safe as houses, Alan, and a very neat job too if I may say so.

I too will be using brass to reinforce my roof along the gullies, as it will also have to withstand handling. In my case, I’ve joined two lengths of 3/16th tubing with 3/52nd tubing acting as a sort of biscuit joint inside the join. I ended up epoxying the join as my iron needs a new bit, but they seem up to the job. As I already had the thinner tubing, I went along to the model shop this morning to purchase four lengths of the thicker tubing. As is always the way, they only had three in stock; luckily I had a leftover piece lying around at home, but it’s shorter than the others. Hopefully once painted, no one will notice

Keep up the good work.

Jonte
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
Now that the canopy is almost finished I've started on butchering kit bashing the Walthers Trackside Post Office into my parcels depot that will butt up to the end of the platform. I'm in the middle of adding the mortar. A coat of BR cream almost immediately wiped off. it produced good mortar lines and also kills the sheen on the Walthers brickwork. When all is well and truly dry this will be gone over with coloured pencils to pick out different shades of brick. Photos will follow sometime over the weekend.
 

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
just the guttering. I'm thinking I may use Evergreen's half rod.

When in Paignton last weekend I noticed the guttering on the station valance was square - you could always square U channel. Albion Alloys produce 1.5 mm brass square U channel which would equate to about 4'' in 4 mm scale. Then use 1 mm brass rod (3'' in 4 mm) to represent downpipes.
 

Alan

Western Thunderer
I've been painting the windows for the parcels depot today. Hopefully I'll start putting them in the walls tomorrow. Then there might be some photos before gluing the walls together
 
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