St James's Station

Last night while the wife was watch The Masterchef final I decided to spend my time a little more constructively. Quite literally.I remembered that there was a Scalescenes Garage in one of the old Hornby magazines.After a quick search I located it in number 26.
A few hours later (4 actually) I was done.
Obviously there will be weathering and detailing to do but it is pretty much ready to put on the layout, somewhere.

 

Second Job for today after tidying up from the Scalescenes build was to attempt to make some trees.I had a helper for this and he was very handy at painting the twisted florists wire.
I used the cordless drill and the vice to twist the wire into a nice tight trunk.
The end result is a bit so so, but given it's my first attempt I can only improve.
I tried using PVA to hold the flock onto the wire. This didn't work. So I used some brown gap filler which worked much better.
I'll try again to make some better trees. These ones can just hide inside a forest somewhere.

 

And final quick job for the day was painting three Hornby Resin Unpainted Terrace Houses.
Out into the garage and load up the Airbrush with Humbrol Red Brick Enamel.

 

Gary wrote:

Yeah I really happy he likes doing stuff with me. I find it's a fine balance between letting him help and come up with ideas and me being able to keep the layout going in the general direction I have in my mind.
Having said that it's surprising how resourceful a seven year old can be. James does have some great ideas and is becoming a really good lateral thinker.
As for the Servo selling Super, that is correct. I'm not sure what this 'unleaded' that you speak of is, but I'm pretty sure that there's not really a market for it and I'm positive it will never last very long. Super will be around for ever, for ever, for ever........... Sorry I nodded of then. What was I saying?

 

paul_l wrote:

Ethanol based fuels, that's where the real future is.
A fuel that slowly eats away all the rubber components in your fuel system. Clogging fuel injectors and fuel lines.
And the best thing is it will save you about 20 cents a litre every time you fill up with this rubbish. The money you save at the pump can then be spent at the mechanic fixing the broken fuel system.

And because the fuel efficiency of your car will be less on the crappy ethanol based fuel you can fill up your car more often. And if you are worried about saving money well have we got a deal for you!
When you spend $5.00 or more in the Service Station shop we will take 4c a litre of your fuel bill.
So if you buy 50 litres of fuel we will take $2.00 off the total price, that's a massive saving of.........hang on, that's not a saving at all. In fact you just spent another $3.00. Suckers.

 

I made more progress on the Unpainted Hornby Resin Terraces today. I used white acrylic poster paint and a sponge to apply it to the brick work.Before it was completely dry I wiped off the excess leaving the mortar lines filled.Then some Humbrol matt Dark Grey for the slate tiles and Satin Black for the door and window frames.

 

While I was in a painting mood I did some work on the barn.It's another Hornby Unpainted Resin building.

 

A little more painting done today.
I have also primed the brass window frames ready for a final coat tomorrow.

 

A few photos of the Scalescenes garage now on the layout.
I will probably mix up some grey plaster for the concrete base
but that will be a while before I do that.

 

I can't use it yet as I am waiting for my EB1 circuit breaker to arrive from the UK, but its very exciting.

 

Some quick internal painting of the remaining resin buildings to prevent light bleeding through the rooves and walls.

I can't attach the photos that I took on the phone to this post even though they are uploaded into my gallery so the Photos will have to be done when I get home from work.

 

Thanks Chris. I took the photo with the iPhone just before I walked out of the room for the night. I'm planning to put lights inside and an Led flashing and strobing to simulate welding. It should look quite good at night then.

SMR CHRIS wrote: