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

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  1. Toto

    Toto I'm best ignored Staff Member Founder Administrator

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    Fantastic work Mr Fay. I like the coach. Really nice.:thumbs: And as usual, you ain't hanging around with the build.

    Top stuff.

    Cheers

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    Yes Pandrol are the standard norm for 109 lbs FB section, if I recall correctly BJB fastenings required a holding down nut and spring clip which seated into a ridge in the concrete F10 sleeper... they weren't the best design because on curves the outer spring clip would break out of the cast ridge in the sleeper. You see Toto more useless information.:avatar:
     
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    BB422DDF-825B-4802-A560-628DE2EC459E.jpeg FE027DB1-353C-45BA-B8D8-BC8C1F5CBF0E.jpeg 17004BB9-B808-474D-B5DA-F0DB561858AC.jpeg AFCF6D63-8F3D-4CA4-A935-233867B55DAB.jpeg These pictures should have been included with my last post, the underpass is looking nicely overgrown, watch out for the stingy nettles!!
     
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    8F6C3441-099D-45F1-9EC9-98CEE3D1057F.jpeg EE957F6E-CE14-496C-B21E-6E49C63D31AD.jpeg 42487E7B-2D98-45C0-959B-40233357D295.jpeg Painted the fascia today, I intended on purchasing some plastruct to make a barrier for along the bridge and luckily after a look through my supplies I had some suitable section here!
     
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    E1B02C4D-0033-4BBA-A4EC-AF789B4325EC.jpeg F83787AA-2022-47F1-968C-25E9248B61AF.jpeg F774A712-8072-4ACC-8F67-8037C4BBBF16.jpeg A little imagination is needed here but I’ve been planning the boards for Coryton Cliffs, heavily influenced by Coryton Cove with the Tunnel mouhths, allotments and semaphore Signal.
    Palm trees still need additional painting and a coat of dullcote to dum down the plastic look.
    Lineside buildings and laser cut veg recycled from Severn Tunnel.
    One of Jon’s super signals just like the prototype location.
    The opposite end will have a GWR colour light signal gantry.
     
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    I see the East Tunnel signalman's tomatoes are still cropping nicely Steve :avatar:
     
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    Joe’s Sh1tty Tomato’s !!!
    Bumper crop this year!
     
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    More basing material added today using Heki clump foliage. Light and dark green. I’ve plenty more left over for use around the tunnel mouths once they are in place.
    The Christmas trees and skewer sticks mark the point of trees. The Christmas trees will be replaced. 7A6000A2-9A8A-4560-AD36-666F43D72BD4.jpeg 07E32C1B-C500-48FA-84AC-FCCBCC8DBBF9.jpeg E74474AB-B4CB-4626-9F76-CD2C77E5E2D0.jpeg
     
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    eBay bargain woodland scenics tree arrived this morning, time to start replacing the Christmas trees!!
    There will be 27 trees on this section of the layout. 0198A5A5-4850-4771-87D5-4429141A1A6A.jpeg The buildings will be securely fixed and bedded In once the track is finalised.
    Waiting patiently for another delivery from Polak and Mininatur now!! Oh and some more ferns!
     
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    0D272E90-D222-4F69-8BFC-BEB8679688F8.jpeg Some years ago Ken the local Ganger and also amateur artist painted a tribute to his former employer the GWR, knowing this was an isolated spot and unlikely to draw the attention of the new BR management its lasted very well and even gets touched up now and then, Ken has more to worry about this year as the line side vegetation is really taking hold, it’s all the warm weather but frequent showers!!!
    Ken also looks after the allotment at Coryton Cliffs and is responsible for planting the palm trees!!
     
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    The usual exemplary standards Steve. :thumbs:
     
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    16BE9B16-C929-43DA-87D2-3026C62F624E.jpeg 8AF396D2-A5D2-4227-ACAC-4F5F79D41A2B.jpeg B879D869-6018-4EB0-B95B-EE866272835F.jpeg 7335A105-21D3-45EA-86B6-947012756926.jpeg FD611E1D-F87E-4F33-B721-51C37236BD4E.jpeg A delivery arrived this morning from Polak & Mininatur, so wasting no time I set about cutting and glueing bits in,
    For the top flat areas of the cliffs I’ve used the new Polak forest base, these can be cut to size and glued in. Easy as that, the edges are blended in with the wild bushes.
    First batch of reeds glued in place in front of the wall.
    Hopefully my delivery of ferns and bull rush will come tomorrow.
     
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    CE050FAC-1EFD-42C0-986A-84385FACFA48.jpeg 1B78FB79-CAC5-48BE-B2E7-3735CDC288ED.jpeg Oh Bull Rush!!
    First pack arrived and I’ll order another to thicken it up.
    Cruel close up Shows the 2D nature but you don’t need to be that far back for the illusion to work.
     
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    Steve may I ask who you order these mini-natur pack from please? Another very nice detailing job :tophat::tophat::tophat:
     
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    69A313B1-D6BD-4049-B91F-C0DCFC6B9090.jpeg 842CD523-DABE-41E5-A6E4-890EFBDF76DD.jpeg Another pack arrived today! I’m sure I ordered ferns! Never mind I needed both. Now up to 32 plants.
     
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    E05A003E-251E-4662-AD7A-1BED17E64506.jpeg A very rough mock up of the modified broad gauge tunnel mouth, Phil will turn this into a kit for me. I’ll paint the stone work the same red as the wall and it will be blended in to the scenery with plenty of growth!
     
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