Victoria Road

Good Greif its almost a week since the last update, and unfortunately most of that time has been spent watching paint dry.

First up, the inner wall layer for the front wall.


And 24 hrs waiting for glue to dry sticking the front wall inplace - I think I had more bracing in place than the forth road bridge

and from the inside

The gutter layer still needs trimming to size before the butresses are added, as well as detailing the interior, before adding roof trusses and the roof.

Started to lay the cobble stone road bed, firstly a layer of card (glossy printed side up) - in this case from a pair of pizza boxes. Then using a glue stick the brick paper is stuck down.



The loading bay is still not fixed as I need to put in some detailing. The concrete floor is Model Railway Scenery's Heavily Weathered Concrete Yard paper.


Paul

 

Cheers Guys

Next bit is a single storey office block on the right hand side, made from the Scalescene large station kit module B, either grafted onto the side, or a connected covered corridor.
This will act as a parcels office for pedestrian access / collection, with the loading bays for BR and Royal Mail vans and trucks.

Front wall base layer cut and wrap applied



Next will be the rear outer wall, then the inner walls - but not tonight

Paul

 

Quick mock up



What do you think ?

Paul

 

Good Evening Gents

Well not a lot of progress, but the boyo is smiling.
Powered up the layout, and it ran first time.

The Class08 still runs like a dog, but then again it always has. However the rest ran fine.









Just a few pics while I get back to playing err I means testing.

Paul

 

Ah well, thats done it, visited Dundee Model Railway Club this evening, showed them the video's of the layout and traverser, and were in. Providing we get completed.

So some serious modelling needs to take place now.

Today as a distraction I have been weathering - well the first step using black enamel wash on the upper bodies to emphasize the panel lines. I have tried to video the process, so hopefully will upload it once completed.

Paul

 

Ok, finger has been extracted - cobblestones added to where the perimeter wall will be.



5mm foam insulation glued down as base for the roads / pavements / wasteland / tennement backies.



Any gaps were then filled with air drying modeling clay. Then the road beds were started using the Additional Cobbles from the Scalescene T016 Dock Edge kit. Finally a base coat of acrylic paint (titanium white and raw umber, roughly 50:50) - really should have done this before layinging the cobbles.


The bits with the modelling clay are drying quicker / darker, hopefully it wi dry more evenly.

Paul

 

Ok while the paint has been drying, I've taken a few pics of the wagon weathering, these have only had the wash applied.

Left hand wagon has had a black wash applied to the panel lines, then when dry any excess wiped off with a cotton bud wetted with enamel thinners. Also a Dust wash applied to the chassis, and while wet thinned out using neet thinners.
The right hand wagon has had nothing done to it.


The next wagon wagon had a more generous covering of black wash, then knocked back when dry using the cotton bud and thinners. This emaphsizes the rivets and banding.

The same technique was done to the conflat

The chassis still have have a wash applied, then I will apply matt cote to the wagons to both seal in the wash, and give a surface that weathering powders can better adhere to.

Paul

 

Thanks Pete

I've had a go at 1 loco, but that was a £15 ebay purchase, not been brave enough to tackle a full price one yet.



Some day.....

Paul