So, might call it Leftover as I have gone through with a stock check and am using up some kits and bits and pieces accumulated over the past 10years rathe than let them go to waste. Baseboard kits purchased to save time and backache... The track is made from Peco Individulay rail parts and C&L chairs, as Peco chairs `melt` badly when using Butanone on ply sleepers , then laid and wired up... all track airbrushed throughout.... This time I`m using auto couplings ( Flippem from Marc Dobson )
Thanks Gormo, The biggest risk was using and mixing Peco code 125 track parts with ply sleepers/plastic and C&L rail chairs.... Then there was the robbing of electronics from a control box made in 2005..... ....to get at these usefull bits.... ...to make a much more up to date and simplified control box....
Very busy with making a set of buildings. The new project has it`s new signal box and hopefully the name plate will arrive from Intentio Models tomorrow , which, of course, will be the name of this project. I`m a great fan of lasercut kits and Railmodel kits are a good price for a quality product... and with a bit of extra thought make a reasonable model.
Thankyou all, This project now has it`s title. Down in darkest Dorset or, perhaps, Devon are the rivers Utter and Loder. Between the two lies the small town of Buncome. signage , courtesy of lasercut products from Intentio.
A couple of cheap laser cut bridge kits and some extra laser cut brick sheets has produced the scenic entrance from the small insitu fiddle yard.... Halfords plastic primer, then hand painted enamels with acrylic tester pot `mortar` applied neat and quickly wiped off. Ground black pepper applied to the capping stones to give texture to the boring looking mdf surfaces. Reasonably pleased but will apply some weathering when the layout lighting is up.
Blimey folks, it`s been a year since last reported progress on my Buncombe project. Before I shut it down for winter I managed to complete 75% of the layout build as hoped for. The station platform and surrounding landscaping was completed using various thicknesses of card coated with shellac ( a first for me) The platform facings were scratch built with embossed plasticard brick sheets. And the landscaping was competed using a hot wire and polystyrene covered in light weight filler. Buwwets Small Arms factory was cobbled together using Skytrex products and a laser cut kit ( you will of course remember Almer Fudd running out of buwwets !!) I also cobbled together a few handbuilt signals for the layout using micro LEDS to go with my modified Dapol motorised signals. I`m hoping to operate all signals via DCC and built an under baseboard servo operating unit..... Lastly , I built a lighting unit using two sets of reasonably cheap Chinese LED kitchen lighting sets. Talking of cheap Chinese products ..... I`m slowly moving over to using Acrylic paints using mostly an airbrush. This is a cheap Chinese Iwata copy airgun that I`m putting through it`s paces..... It works very well for £30 so long as you stick to water based paints as the rubber seals wont cope with enamel paint solvents.
