4mm Llanfair

[LarryG]

Looking down Llanfair Road into the village...

 

[LarryG]

The weighbridge and building kit from Intentio have been on hold since last year, anyway I built it this afternoon and sunk both into the 1/8" cork. They can be lifted out for spraying....

 

[Tim Hale]

That is an attractive BS, who is the manufacture, please.

Thank you

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[LarryG]

That is an attractive BS, who is the manufacture, please.

Thank you

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Lanarkshire Models BS14 GWR 'Short' bufferstop kits. Cast whitemetal or pewter. A good range is available from this manufacturer.

 

[Tim Hale]

Thank you

 

[Mike Garwood]

Fair play Larry, wonderful stuff!

Mike

 

[LarryG]

Weighbridge & hut painted and installed. There's a bit of muck on the camera lens....

The grass was built up against the 4-bar fencing on the left to make it look smaller towards the end and aid perspective....

 

[John Duffy]

Just a small point Larry, but - certainly in this part of the world - the timbers on the fence behind the weighbridge would be vertical. The straps to hold them would follow the angle of the land, but the spars themselves would be plumb. (As very roughly demonstrated here, on Rosehearty) [I could have sworn they were vertical!




All the best

John

 

[LarryG]

The fencing on the sloping ground is designed for a platform ramp. Okay, so my embankment is slightly steeper than a platform ramp. I'll have to see id the slope of the embankment can be reduced to match the fencing.

 

[michael mott]

Wow you painted up the weighbridge hut pretty fast, and it looks great. I really likes the sublty of the B&W shot earlier.

Michael

 

[LarryG]

Nothing could be done about the inclined fencing and so it was removed and a drystone wall put along the top of the bank...

 

[Gismorail]

Fantastic modelling Larry as is to be expected of course …..perspective and depth of field are all spot on and I particularly like the cottages down the road in the distance absolutely superb

 

[simond]

Very nice!

 

[LarryG]

Western Region inaction really... Just added a set of stone steps haha....ex. LMS 50 Parcel Van in attendance...

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

It's always the way - the more you photograph the layout in close up the more you notice the small details which require adding to complete the scenes.

 

[simond]

Larry,

what are your thoughts about the front of the layout? I can imagine a wall (a fence would be too fragile perhaps) from the edge of the staithes in the last-but-one pic would be “appropriate” in the sense of providing a boundary?

of course, the other side of this is having a ground level edge which offers photographic opportunities.

cheers
Simon

 

[LarryG]

Larry,

what are your thoughts about the front of the layout? I can imagine a wall (a fence would be too fragile perhaps) from the edge of the staithes in the last-but-one pic would be “appropriate” in the sense of providing a boundary?

of course, the other side of this is having a ground level edge which offers photographic opportunities.

Yard space is already at a premium and so i decided to not bother with a wall or low embankment. You cleverly guessed it also offers ground level opportunities for photography.

 

[JasonBz]

I like the coal office near the weighbridge (and therefore also close to the yard entrance).
I may be wrong, but I would assume that the railway also liked such an arrangement, as it prevented coal seeking customers from just wandering around the goods yard.

 

[Nick Rogers]

Looks lovely, Larry. Lots of inspiring stuff.

All the best,

Nick.

 

[Phil O]

Is your lawn, supposed to be that colour? Grass down this way is a sort of light straw colour, just waiting for a fag end or a barbie to ignite it.