Unklian's G3 workbench .

[unklian]

Been a while I am afraid but now the Boxfile Project has started its dash for the deadline/finish line. After getting a bit too distracted with trying to build a loco, I have cut my losses and got on with the layout itself. Part of the reason I haven't posted for bit is that I managed to leave my camera at a relatives house after Christmas. That has meant less progress pictures but more progress though.








The turntable does now rotate under 'power', although "indexing" is by nifty use of the direction switch. The mechanism could do with being much slower too. But hey it's still at the development stage really. I am quite pleased at how the foamboard and sticky back paper brickwork has worked out, it doesn't bear close inspection in places, but it works well as a background. Work on the windows today ground to a halt when I ran out of 60thou square Evergreen far too quickly, I have ordered some more online but I will be on the hunt for more tomorrow locally. Next job is the rails on the turntable, now I have worked out where the gaps need to be . Also got to try and make it all look a bit more French, I have some figures to mod and the Mobylette and the one PLM wagon. Hmmm ....

 

[unklian]

What I did to create some people for the diorama. Take three old Preiser G scale figures, a hacksaw, a bit of brass wire and some Milliput. Moustaches, waistcoats, hats and a Gallic shrug being the order of the day. I think the pictures tell the rest .....


Eh voila !

 

[unklian]

And here is the rest of it and how it kinda works. I finally got to take some pictures in ( gloomy ! ) daylight. First off the three boxfiles all closed up .



When the boxes are opened up the track level boards are revealed .



Lifting out two of the track boards reveals the carefully packed elevation sections .



With everything out the three boxes are bolted together.



The track is then put back and the elevations slotted together.



With the help of some masking tape , two of the lids and the various wall sections form up into a backdrop elevation.



And there you go a corner of a factory yard some where in France or ??? at 1:22.5 scale .



I was hoping to get some sort of text/title together for the remaining lid . The original spec said they could not be removable, but I might change that. Now I really should get some more suitable stock built and some working capstans to make it operable . I am also aware there may be visit from the Weathering Inquisition at some point . All being well I should have it on display at the G3 AGM in Biggleswade on the 25th next .

Thanks too for all the likes so far,, they really are encouraging. This 'little' project has got my mojo going again !
Cheers Ian

 

[unklian]

According to the web, Bousard is deer droppings (cf bouse: cow dung) Peut etre un blague?

Thank you Geoff, I did ask a few French speakers if my Compagnie name held any howlers and while bouse was mentioned no one came up with a meaning for Bousard. I have seen it as a fairly common French and Belgian surname. Its real origin for the model is a 12th century version of my home towns name, Leighton Buzzard was once called Lesone Bousard. Bousard being a corruption of Busar the name of a former town sheriff . So what is in a name eh ?

 

[unklian]

It is also very useful as a backdrop for progress photos for the 'My Workbench' thread. So here you have Le Boss casting a jaundiced eye over the latest job. While Henri plies the foreman with excuses for it taking all afternoon for the welder to relearn how to use low melt solder and put 8 axleboxes together.