Stephen Fay’s O gauge layouts and dioramas, Commission builds, personal builds and magazine articles

I’ll be making up wire in post fencing as well for the steepest areas, this fencing will get used more on the shallower slopes and that will require quite a few packs.

 

The 4th board for St Stephens made up and I’ve stared to cut in the embankment.

 

5th and final board for St Stephens bank made up, The famed Haskins Hill end. Quite a bit of imagination is needed but once built up and covered in trees it should be quite an imposing sight.

 

Back home from the Newport show with this superb Intentio GWR road bridge for St Stephens, not a drop of glue on this yet. Superb kits, Highly recommended. I can see a nice 3D printed version of myself standing on there.

 

After a day of painting and baking Teignton Lane farm bridge is looking almost ready to plant. I will add more weathering once in place and I can concentrate powders where the chimney blast would be, I’ll finish up the wing walls tomorrow. I’ve gone a little more fancy with the engineers blue on this one and final weathering will take place once it’s bedded in and the scenery built up around it. Another quality product from Intentio.

 

A delivery from Skytrex today and we have our underpass for board 3 and a relic of world war 2 which will be concealed in the man planted forest. As always with Skytrex there’s an element of filing and cutting to make the parts fit and I’ve used DAS clay on the joints. I’ll allow that to harden and sand and where needed scribe the mortar joints in.
Also on St Stephen’s the Intentio road bridge is trialled in place and over on Westbourne Bridge MIG and AK washes over the shed area

 

The pillbox after a few coats of Phoenix weathered concrete and also for St Stephens a ballast bin made from old sleepers with correct GW two bolt chair pattern from Intentio. This will sit by St Stephens signal
Box with an upturned wheel barrow just like a picture I have of Dainton Box.

 

As the sun is out it’s the perfect opportunity to do some painting and weathering, first is the pill box and then the farm underpass, I’ve picked out the various colours and now it’s time to start the washes, Matt black first.

 

A little more weathering

 

Just the pipe clips to fit and it’s ready to plant.

 

A little 4mm commission build of an Intentio GWR cast concrete plate layers hut. Glazing and base to add.

 

Back on Haskins hill and more cutting and carving, whilst I wanted this tunnel in a steep cutting I’ve opened the viewing side up a little more to make it a little easier to see the view. I’ve not finished with the carving yet so will hold off painting it. I like where the rocks will protrude from the greenery.

 

Many Thanks, what I really like about this project is the undulating landscape and the railway runs through tunnels over bridges under bridges on embankments and through cuttings

 

More polystyrene cutting to form Haskins Hill, it really is the dominant point of the layout. On the right hand side of the cutting I’ve got some skytrex retaining wall sections and buttresses on order and I think a plate layers hut or two will populate that area. There usually was one or two in front of most major tunnel mouth openings.