Jordan or Plymouth Mad
Mid-Western Thunderer
It's also nearly looking like another warning about posting pictures of the real thing & claiming it's a model is due...!!
7mm Bleddfa Road
- Thread starter Geoff
- Start date
Geoff
Western Thunderer
Oh gosh yes, my best friend at school had a complete set of treble-o-lectric. Their Derby type 2 was a sight to behold, for younger viewers we didn't call them Classes 24/25 in those days.
It's also nearly looking like another warning about posting pictures of the real thing & claiming it's a model is due...!!
Can't remember if I lifted this one from Bylines, Trains Illustrated, or a Bradford Barton album.
Please ignore those wonky pilasters, they will be sorted tomorrow.
Geoff
Last edited:
Geoff
Western Thunderer
Is it me, or has anyone else had problems uploading photos, I was just about to give up with this one when suddenly it loaded? Another looking from the opposite direction showing the completed river bank loads up to 100% and then freezes. There's not much to do in this area now other than painting the pilaster capstones, creating the cottage garden and making the cattle grids. But there's still plenty to do between the cottage and road bridge and behind the photographer.
Geoff
Last edited:
LarryG
Western Thunderer
Modelling-wise, I actually started with 0 gauge (1957). Manchester's Tyldesley & Holbrook supplied sleepers, galvanised flat-bottom rail and spikes and it was like building the real thing after I'd excavated a level plot across the garden. Built a flat wagon on a s/h chassis to carry a tortoise and altered a clockwork Hornby L1 to resemble an LMS 2P. Two Bakelite coaches were by Mills Bros.
Geoff
Western Thunderer
I’m old enough to remember their shop Larry, and some of the products you mention. Being able to afford them on my pocket money at that time was nigh on impossible.
Geoff
Geoff
Western Thunderer
Last week I mentioned having problems posting some photos, I've no idea what caused the problem, but everything appears to be working normally today.
The pilasters are now firmly in place, leaving just the cattle grids road signs and small scenic details to add.
Same train from the other side of the track, funny how that telegraph pole looks vertical through my eyeball but not the camera lens?
It looks like the crew of 7416 are going to get drenched as the rain sweeps down from the hills.
The limekilns have been demolished and are being replaced with a new embankment. Card formers for the latter are in place and waiting for some plaster bandage, but for now some hanging basket liner has been placed on top of them.
Geoff
The pilasters are now firmly in place, leaving just the cattle grids road signs and small scenic details to add.
Same train from the other side of the track, funny how that telegraph pole looks vertical through my eyeball but not the camera lens?
It looks like the crew of 7416 are going to get drenched as the rain sweeps down from the hills.
The limekilns have been demolished and are being replaced with a new embankment. Card formers for the latter are in place and waiting for some plaster bandage, but for now some hanging basket liner has been placed on top of them.
Geoff
Larry
Your Bakelite coaches would actually have been from the Leeds Model Company who pioneered using plastic for rolling stock manufacture, starting pre-WW2. Mills built in wood.
Geoff
Western Thunderer
Paul Tomlinson
Western Thunderer
But then, Geoff, looking at your colour photos, I feel that I can see how the soot and smoke blowing from the cottage chimney has, over time, left a blackening on the terracotta ridge tiles - and how over a number of years, lichen has appeared on the slates and stonework, leaving a faint touch of green here and there... or is it just my imagination? Whatever it is, it is very pleasing to observe, so cheers.
Geoff
Western Thunderer
Thank you Paul, No it's not your imagination, there are traces of soot or more accurately Carr's weathering powder around the chimney and ridge tiles along with a few touches of green.
Thanks also to Mark and Gary for your kind comments, and to everyone who liked my post, much appreciated.
Geoff
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
I wouldn't worry about it
.I don't think I've ever seen a vertical telegraph pole in real life. They're either like the Tower of Pisa or starting to warp like Chesterfield's Church of St Mary and All Saints.
Geoff
Western Thunderer
I don't worry about it Dave, it just amazes me what the camera sees and the eye misses.I wouldn't worry about it
I don't think I've ever seen a vertical telegraph pole in real life. They're either like the Tower of Pisa or starting to warp like Chesterfield's Church of St Mary and All Saints.
Geoff
Geoff
Western Thunderer
Last year I was asked for info. about my 'Fusion Flock Box', yesterday I dug it out again to create a few small grass mats. Seeing as the original post generated a fair bit of interest I took a few photos of the procedure.
All set up and ready to go, a mix of 2mm and 6mm fibres were placed on the device. The black lead is the 9v power input and the green one clips onto a piece of silicon paper, which is coated with PVA. A word of warning, if you have a pacemaker or a similar device be very careful indeed, and wear a face mask as the fibres become airborne during the procedure.
The silicon paper, in this case the backing from some self adhesive labels was clipped to a scrap piece of styrene sheet. The green clip must be in contact with the PVA, which the manufacturer recommends as an adhesive, and to complete the circuit.
The Flockbox is switched on, and thanks to holding the metal part of the green clip rather than the insulated part I got a nice shock, to think I used to be a sparky The fibres shoot upwards and stick to the PVA coated silicon paper and that is that.
Once the PVA has dried, the silicon paper was peeled away, leaving the fibres stuck to a thin transparent base of dried PVA. The mat on the left has 2mm fibres, and the others are mixes of 2mm / 6mm fibres. To create individual tufts, blobs of PVA are applied to the silicon paper.
On the left is an upturned mat showing the dried PVA base, next along is an address label being peeled away from its silicon paper base. Followed by some tufts and a grass mat. I made about a dozen mats in total, using fibres of different colours and length. Silicon paper is widely available in A4 size sheets, I used the address labels because I had plenty to hand and their small size suits my mix and match approach to creating grassland.
Despite spending most of the morning flocking about, and suffering three shocks, I still found the time to run the morning return goods to Kingston.
The driver of 7416 and guard put the world to rights before heading back down the branch.
Geoff
All set up and ready to go, a mix of 2mm and 6mm fibres were placed on the device. The black lead is the 9v power input and the green one clips onto a piece of silicon paper, which is coated with PVA. A word of warning, if you have a pacemaker or a similar device be very careful indeed, and wear a face mask as the fibres become airborne during the procedure.
The silicon paper, in this case the backing from some self adhesive labels was clipped to a scrap piece of styrene sheet. The green clip must be in contact with the PVA, which the manufacturer recommends as an adhesive, and to complete the circuit.
The Flockbox is switched on, and thanks to holding the metal part of the green clip rather than the insulated part I got a nice shock, to think I used to be a sparky
The fibres shoot upwards and stick to the PVA coated silicon paper and that is that.Once the PVA has dried, the silicon paper was peeled away, leaving the fibres stuck to a thin transparent base of dried PVA. The mat on the left has 2mm fibres, and the others are mixes of 2mm / 6mm fibres. To create individual tufts, blobs of PVA are applied to the silicon paper.
On the left is an upturned mat showing the dried PVA base, next along is an address label being peeled away from its silicon paper base. Followed by some tufts and a grass mat. I made about a dozen mats in total, using fibres of different colours and length. Silicon paper is widely available in A4 size sheets, I used the address labels because I had plenty to hand and their small size suits my mix and match approach to creating grassland.
Despite spending most of the morning flocking about, and suffering three shocks, I still found the time to run the morning return goods to Kingston.
The driver of 7416 and guard put the world to rights before heading back down the branch.
Geoff
Geoff
Western Thunderer
Thank you Ade
Work on the scenery continues, the grass mats have now been laid and blended together with various static grasses. At the moment I'm slowly layering some areas up with longer fibres.
In some places, the track bed of the old siding needed a basing layer of 2mm fibres. The odd clumps of material will help create an uneven grassed surface if all goes to plan.
After a few passes of the Flockit, which had been loaded with 4 and 6mm fibres of differing colours, the grass began to come alive. The platelayers hut and oil drums were blended into the scene at the same time.
Grass has also started to take root on the other side of the track as well using the same methods. Some long fibres of dead grass will be applied next, along with some wooden fencing.
The fireman of 1455 will have to walk to the lever frame to set the road, that's a difficult task at the moment because it's not yet connected, the point rodding needs to be installed as well, that's the next job along with refitting the FPL cover. The cattle grids were completed today and are ready for painting, and some fencing is also under construction, that little lot should keep me busy for a while.
Geoff