4mm Llanfair

Larry,
That fencing looks just right.
Very rarely dead straight when it went in and more than half a century on......

Another bit done hiding the road as it hits the backscene. Planting a tree of sloping ground was a challenge so I did it last night and propped it up with a pair of track cutters while a blob of PVA impregnated with static grass dried. This morning, some dead grass was added under the tree...

Morning Larry was just studying the pictures of the coal yard you are fettling and looking at the backscene it ooks like that area of the Dee Valley between Carrog and Corwen looking up to the B5437 as it passes Maes Y Waen......all excellent stuff

Gismorail said:

Morning Larry was just studying the pictures of the coal yard you are fettling and looking at the backscene it ooks like that area of the Dee Valley between Carrog and Corwen looking up to the B5437 as it passes Maes Y Waen......all excellent stuff

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Thanks Gismo. You know the area well with living there. The Dee Valley looks to me very similar to some areas on the Shropshire borders down the valley to Welshpool.

A photo merely taken to see how the 4mm vac'd grass looks. Every day, I take photos of new 'work' and then go though photo albums to see how things really looked and how the model might be improved. This platform end shot tells me the accumilation of muck at places like this is missing...

LarryG said:

This platform end shot tells me the accumilation of muck at places like this is missing...

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It would be a very fastidious Stationmaster who had that bit of land regularly cut.

Would some low shrubbery be a good way of filling the area whilst keeping it tidy.

That area is a prime candidate for rhododendron - fills it up; low maintenance.

John Isherwood.

Rhododendron's....or at least some pretty flowers....

One of the small trees was sacrificed by cutting it into slices to form the base of the flowers. So far they look like bushes...


The bushes were sprayed with glue and some red flower beds were removed from their backing sheet and crumpled between finger & thumb so the flowers settled on the adhesive. It's a work in progress, as I'm busy doing other things today...

LarryG said:

Rhododendron's....or at least some pretty flowers....

One of the small trees was sacrificed by cutting it into slices to form the base of the flowers. So far they look like bushes...
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The bushes were sprayed with glue and some red flower beds were removed from their backing sheet and crumpled between finger & thumb so the flowers settled on the adhesive. It's a work in progress, as I'm busy doing other things today...
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You created my vision!

As it stands, it represents that fleeting period when the bush starts to drop its flower petals!

Absolutely spot-on.

John Isherwood.

After the last train of the day departed, Reverend Griffiths went for a late evening stroll around the station with his trusty German Leica. He had walked across the fields and clambered over the stone wall to reach this spot...



The railwaymen were his flock and he knew they would be enjoying a gill or even a pint. All was quiet...


He took this shot and then stood for a moment wondering how the station got by without lamps and platform seats...


Then he looked in admiration at the church and considered his good fortune in securing this post. In an hours time, the sun would have dipped and he would back back home listening to music on the North Home Service...

If you have second thoughts about the rhododendrons, I reckon there's just enough room there for a plinthed NORTH STAR.

Just sayin'.

LarryG said:

Then he looked in admiration at the church and considered his good fortune in securing this post. In an hours time, the sun would have dipped and he would back back home listening to music on the North Home Service...Whilst thinking to himself, I could have had a bigger parish in 7mm scale.

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Geoff.

Osgood said:

If you have second thoughts about the rhododendrons, I reckon there's just enough room there for a plinthed NORTH STAR.

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No, I'd put a Bulleid Pacific up there on a plinth 'cos he once lived in nearby Llanfyllin on which Llanfair was originally based. Then should a train overshoot the buffers, there would be nothing to lose.

Spent a day and a half converting this EFE Leyland TD1 from a glossy lined out model into a something that resembled a clapped-out second hand purchase from the late 1940's.

Dismantling was easy using a tough screwdriver between the lower and upper deck sections, then the interior simply fell out. The bus shell was washed with Ajax powder, then two of the original cream bands were masked. All my cellulose railway colours were disposed of years ago, but I had to hand a Howes spraycan of LNER green that was used to spray Llanfair's outdoor scenery!

I'd never make a Chinese assembler! There was a sequence to re-assembly that only EFE knew about. The penny began to drop in stages until eventally I hit the jackpot. Seat units go in first, but the glazing would only stay put with the aid of Loctite...

Ex. Ribble Leyland TD1 standing at Llanfair looking as forlorn as most of these 1929-30 buses did by the end of the 1940's...

Lovely work, Larry. Mrs Kernow also gives it the thumbs up!

LarryG said:

Then he looked in admiration at the church and considered his good fortune in securing this post. In an hours time, the sun would have dipped and he would back back home listening to music on the North Home Service...
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At first, I thought that I detected a wrinkle in the backscene - between the tree and the barn.

How foolish of me - it is quite clearly the slight hollow, worn by several generations of feet, of the footpath from the village to the station / bus terminus.

Absolutely exquisite! If only I could find a fellow modeller, with your scenic talents, to invoke a 'sense of place' to my extended, non-scenic test-track. I cannot find the motivation to undertake what I perceive as a chore - compared to building ever more stock!

John Isherwood.

LarryG said:

Spent a day and a half converting this EFE Leyland TD1 from a glossy lined out model into a something that resembled a clapped-out second hand purchase from the late 1940's.

Dismantling was easy using a tough screwdriver between the lower and upper deck sections, then the interior simply fell out. The bus shell was washed with Ajax powder, then two of the original cream bands were masked. All my cellulose railway colours were disposed of years ago, but I had to hand a Howes spraycan of LNER green that was used to spray Llanfair's outdoor scenery!

I'd never make a Chinese assembler! There was a sequence to re-assembly that only EFE knew about. The penny began to drop in stages until eventally I hit the jackpot. Seat units go in first, but the glazing would only stay put with the aid of Loctite...

Ex. Ribble Leyland TD1 standing at Llanfair looking as forlorn as most of these 1929-30 buses did by the end of the 1940's...

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Yes, the EFE (and Corgi) have a knack to disassembly and reassembly as I've done a few myself - more of the later 1960s and 1970s buses in NBC liveries.

The upper deck glazing usually holds itself in once the front, rear and sides are installed. In most cases the front and rear go in first followed by the sides as it's these which generally lock the glazing - then followed by the upper deck seating. The bottom deck seats go in first followed by the glazing. I tend to use drops of canopy glue (or PVA) to hold any glazing and I also use this to bond the upper and lower decks which is enough to hold the while being handled for placement. And it allows for easy disassembly in the future should I wish to add extra details.

Single deck buses vary as either the body and roof are one mould with a separate chassis or as with the Leyland Nationals the body and roof are separate moulds.

LarryG said:

In the mid 1950's, Llanfair's local bus company was running this pre-war Leyland TS8 bought second-hand from a Lancashire operator. I seem to recall the EFE model started out as a post-war Leyland PS1. I reshaped the front wings to pre-war styling and fitted one of my own whitemetal radiator castings...

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As and when you get around to add details to the station forecourt I suggest a cast iron bus stop flag similar to one of these top post mounted versions and a timetable case (obviously not Eastern Counties). I did have a look at buses in the locale and one of the main Tilling Group operators was Crossville together with a number of private operators.