4mm Llanfair

[Mike Garwood]

Lovely stuff Larry!

Mike

 

[Dave Holt]

I really like the cattle (sheep) pens, approach and the grass in the head shunt track. All very realistic and nicely done. Augers well for the rest of the layout.
Dave.

 

[LarryG]

Thanks for the comments.

Regarding ballasting, I always use a mix of fine grey and fine dark brown ballast (for 00) to give a clean-ish mottled grey. Then I add the rust with a spraygun. Its quite realistic this way as the rust run-off can be varied from quite newly ballasted track where the rust is mainly just below the rails to rust right across the ballast. This picture of real ballast can be easily emulated with a spraygun. Incidentally, this was one of my early Fuji Finepix digital photos from 2001...

 

[AllenM]

Larry
Were is that taken, please? To me it looks like the stretch between Colwyn Bay, Abergele towards Rhyl.
Regards
Allen

 

[LarryG]

Heading towards Towyn. Abergele is in the distance. I think I took it from Millers Cottage camp footbridge. Train is the 6K22 Penmaenmawr-Crewe.

 

[LarryG]

I had to buy a Ratio kit and try a GWR water crane! The siding behind the water crane was re-laid and spaced further away from the running line yesterday to leave room for a water crane...


The starter signal sitting temporarily in its large hole. I may have to move it bigger distance from the platform...


The large GWR water tank would normally be in the background, but it can be positioned anywhere if it only serves to supply a water crane. Must admit I like the clean appearance of the scene without the tank....

 

[Pannier Tank]

Larry, How about a GWR Conical Water Tower?

528 Ratio GWR Water Tower Round Type

 

[Mikemill]

Larry
As a dyed in the wool GWR man and a fan of branch line modelling your layout is one of the best I have seen over the years. The addition of the backing brings the whole scene together an emulates the real railway feel.

Excellent job, keep up the good work

Mike

 

[LarryG]

A circular water tank and filler was built this afternoon, as I still haven't made my mind up of which type to use on the layout.

 

[LarryG]

I leave the local roads to the tourists Bank holidays, so in between sunbathing, I sprayed and weathered the circular tank water crane...


Regarding the main colours, I followed information in 'GWR Structure Colours' by R. North. Detail weathering came from photos taken in the steam-era. Heritage railways appear to have followed their own ideas and mainly used GWR Nos 2 and 3. The base of the column up to around 5 feet was usually painted No. 4, but evidence suggests that black was the norm in the 1930's. The painter at Llanfair carried on using No.4.....

 

[paulc]

That water tank crane certainly fits in well Larry and as you said , doesn't 'overpower the layout' unlike the original tower . The whole layout is coming together nicely.

 

[LarryG]

That water tank crane certainly fits in well Larry and as you said , doesn't 'overpower the layout' unlike the original tower . The whole layout is coming together nicely.

Thanks. I am nothing if not contrary and have missed the big water tank not being part of the scenery at Llanfair.

I could say the large tank dated from the time when Llanfair had a loco shed in what is now the goods yard. Goods quickly outgrew the small lock-up shed on the station platform and so the loco shed closed in the 1890's and was replaced by the current brick goods shed. This rendered the large water tank an operational inconvenient for topping up locomotives and so a water crane with tank was erected on the running line. This explains the neglected appearance of the large tank when compared with other structures at the station...



A simple water crane fed by the large water tank would have sufficed, so I'll see how things pan out as the scenery progresses. After putting a lot of work into the small water tank, I'd like to make use of it if possible.