Overtoun Junction, 00 gauge

Here is the black 5 running on its 6th lap which of course resulted in one of the wagons derailing at the end of the video.....

 

Thanks.

 

Been busy with family stuff so not spent a lot of time on the layout.
Yesterday I was sorting out some polystyrene for the more scenic section of the layout.

 

Cheers.
Modifying the points was a bit of "Squeaky bum time" as there was the risk of ending up with two duff points.

 

Looking at the locos sitting on the scenic section I can see the lean quite badly so a bit of card packing to level up the track is required.

 

Added some plaster bandage to the scenery, next up some sculptamould.

Class 25 crossing one of the bridges.

 

Tested positive for C19 yesterday, a cough and sore throat so i'm isolating for 10 days.
Told the wife I will isolate in my railway room!

 

So I decided to try my own DIY sculptimold...
I bought 2.5Kgs of Plaster of Paris for £6 and a bag of small animal beding (Recycled paper shreds).
Mixed them up 50/50 and added water to the consistancy of cottage cheese.
Here is the resulting landscape..

It is a bit thick and working time is about 15 minutes but I think it will be fine on this area as i'm going for the wild look here.
I suspect it will take several days to dry out.
So I have started scratch building a plate bridge for the river crossing.

This is made from 1mm thick plasticard and still requires plenty more work to get it looking the way I want.

 

Here is where i'm up to now. Brown/green base colour applied to the landform. My scratch built bridge is painted and rusted just waiting for weathering to finish it.

 

A bit more work has gone on with the grass base layer started.

Couldn't help myself photoshopping the sky.

And without the sky!

 

The rocky outcrops still need a black wash. Tried out a new method with the airbrush, Put some black paint in then some white and partially mixed it in the airbrush. As I was spraying the colour slowly vairied which resulted in what you can see on the road surface and the rocky areas. This was all done with one load of the airbrush.
Not sure if this is an established method as I just thought of it and gave it a try.

Looking along the riverbed. The road bridge has not been designed/decided upon yet.

 

Here is where I am up to now-

I have been building Pine trees for this scene.

 

Cracked on with some ballasting and tree planting.
Backscene installed too.
Photoshop has been used in places....

Here is the overall view.

 

Another week gone, More trees added and the next bit of the layout plaster bandaged...
My 1978 Hornby class 25 has been weathered and i've added buffer beam detailing.


Still need to install a driver!

 

Thanks guys.