Victoria Road

Next challenge, installing the low relief buildings along the back wall .......... eh Toto.

I need to get started on buildings ..... I hate building buildings, who was the bright spark that thoght of building an inner city layout, oh that would be me

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See the Christmas cheeryness or is that weariness is hitting already.Got to get Kirsty's bedroom to - as the kids put it Grandma ready for the weekend, so my modelling time is severely constrained until the new year
And I have to tidy the man cave / railway room, tried to explain I did earlier this year, but rhe same look the kids used to get, and a rye smile off Kirsty, I know better than to argue that look.
Paul

 

You mean you have left hattons with some stock for the rest of us
Miracles never cease
Paul

 

I'd heard Hattons were bringing in consultants to find out why exports to Scotland had plummited, and are having second thoughts about opening a Edinberg branch - after all Toto already has the warehouse covered.

Paul

ooooo, I feel I'm going to suffer for that

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OK, just to prove Victoria Road has more than just a traverser, I recently started work on the rear retaining walls.

This will run the whole length of the track, and at the station throat will gain in height to form a wind break for the platforms.

I have used two layers of 2mm grey board, and applied Scalescene red brick paper to the board.



On the rail side I only used a 30 mm high strip as only 10 mm would be seen.



The whole length was then sealed with Winsor & Newton Galleria Matt acrylic varnish.

Then tried in place



To cover the joins buttresses were made.



Then varnished and glued in place, carefully aligning the brick courses.



That got me to the base board joint
Now the section that will raise in height, I decided to do this with two steps and a 45 degree angle.
These were made the same way as the rear section
As this would be seen in the station area, I also included a row of header bricks at the top.

These are also on the Scalescene brick paper.


Then the buttresses were cut to length

Capping stones for each buttress were made from plain grey board



The remaining cap stones were made from narrower strips of grey board with the lines drawn in heavily with a blunt HB pencil.



and stuck in place



Temporarily held in place, as I will need access under the platforms to install lights.



Paul

 

Gary wrote:

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Cheers Pete

The worst part abought the retaining wall, is it will never be seen, and I have fitted buttresses etc - I suppose I know they're there

Paul