Ian@StEnochs
Western Thunderer
Please keep posting here Tim. Not all of us read blogs but prefer the variety of topics on WT. German railways may not be our own modelling focus but we can all learn something by peeking over your fence.
Ian
HO Eine Sekundärbahn
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Please keep posting here Tim. Not all of us read blogs but prefer the variety of topics on WT. German railways may not be our own modelling focus but we can all learn something by peeking over your fence.
Ian
Richard Gawler
Western Thunderer
Tim, I never visited East Germany so your prototype photos help me to understand the scene I am looking at. I am enjoying seeing your efforts all come together, so I do hope you keep posting here.
Roger Pound
Western Thunderer
Tim,
Please keep posting on WT. Like others have mentioned above, I don't do 'blogs', and would miss the news of your excellent work and research greatly. Apropos your recent content on Irises, I have just returned from the Vale of Evesham where my daughter has a bank of yellow Irises in her garden pond - they are a sight to behold and well worth modelling.
I look forward to more news from Pottendorf as and when.
Roger.
Please keep posting on WT. Like others have mentioned above, I don't do 'blogs', and would miss the news of your excellent work and research greatly. Apropos your recent content on Irises, I have just returned from the Vale of Evesham where my daughter has a bank of yellow Irises in her garden pond - they are a sight to behold and well worth modelling.
I look forward to more news from Pottendorf as and when.
Roger.
Tim Hale
Western Thunderer
Hi Richard,
The setting for Pottendorf is Oberfranken during the '60s.
When the project began, it was merely a generic trackplan and both East and West were equally viable but that was sometime ago, Oberfranken that was the ultimate choice.
Tim
The setting for Pottendorf is Oberfranken during the '60s.
When the project began, it was merely a generic trackplan and both East and West were equally viable but that was sometime ago, Oberfranken that was the ultimate choice.
Tim
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Tim Hale
Western Thunderer
Roger,
Today's progress is stalled whilst further supplies of suitable scenery products are awaited, in the meantime these two images are this morning's efforts. The front edge of the layout is rather threadbare and it will take at least a couple of days to rectify the situation but compared with post #126 last October, it is a different situation.
Tim
Today's progress is stalled whilst further supplies of suitable scenery products are awaited, in the meantime these two images are this morning's efforts. The front edge of the layout is rather threadbare and it will take at least a couple of days to rectify the situation but compared with post #126 last October, it is a different situation.
While I follow the blog as well, I sometimes find the chronological content on WT easier to follow, particularly if I'm looking back for an item. I really think both have their merits.
Many thanks for both, as I find them useful and inspiring for my own German railway modelling.
Simon.
timbowales
Western Thunderer
I, like many others, enjoy reading your posts. Your efforts are definitely an example of “less is more” so please keep on posting.
Tim T
Tim Hale
Western Thunderer
The 2mm static grass from Heki has finally arrived and the station allotment has been given a layer of 'neat' grass
It isn't finished, I need to sort out the pump and cistern, some rhubarb and find the blessed hole in the base for the scarecrow whilst the magnificent budleia will find a place inside the plot.
Tim
It isn't finished, I need to sort out the pump and cistern, some rhubarb and find the blessed hole in the base for the scarecrow whilst the magnificent budleia will find a place inside the plot.
Tim
Tim Hale
Western Thunderer
HiJust completed most of the grass work, still lots to do but tomorrow will be cleaning up the track/layout and running a train. Still lots to do, I have no idea where to place the trees, maybe take some inspiration from the previous smaller version of Pottendorf that was sold in 2018. My instinct is to place the trees in random groups of three, no idea if that is natural but it does provide some balance to the few buildings on the layout.j
One last major effort is the front edge of the scenery, it always gets damaged, maybe just a subtle green painted meridian rather than vulnerable static grass?
2018
2024
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Tim Hale
Western Thunderer
Win some, lose some, the precaution of placing stuff to see if it looks OK is a wise one. Whilst building the dung heap, silage bund and crane, they looked OK until placed on the layout. Consequently a much smaller, simpler version is underway (just a concrete pad) and the crane has been replaced by a tractor with front shovel. Making a 'better' midden, first a small concrete base of card, on which there is a dung heap similar to the above image. The heap is a small pile of seeds from Juweela, soaked with dilute PVA and left in the sun to harden afterwards it was dusted with straw.
Tim
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Roger Pound
Western Thunderer
Fruit bushes would be an option too - your better knowledge of the region and its preferred crops may pay dividends as to what would be appropriate but they would be more compact than a fruit tree if this point is worth considering.
Over to you!
Roger
Tim Hale
Western Thunderer
A bit of navel gazing
I am considering changing the name of the station to avoid confusion with the layout currently owned by the Bristol group and the Austrian town. Maybe a radical move would be to recycle 'Grafenwalde' because I have a set of laser-cut nameboards* and the trackplan of this layout was recycled from my original DR layout of the same name that was scrapped soon after its sale to an individual in the IOW. Moreover, Grafenwalde is a fictitious moniker and AFAIK there is no other location sharing that name.
*If the layout is renamed, these are the exquisite laser-cut nameboards. Naturally, they are not easy to paint.
Tim
I am considering changing the name of the station to avoid confusion with the layout currently owned by the Bristol group and the Austrian town. Maybe a radical move would be to recycle 'Grafenwalde' because I have a set of laser-cut nameboards* and the trackplan of this layout was recycled from my original DR layout of the same name that was scrapped soon after its sale to an individual in the IOW. Moreover, Grafenwalde is a fictitious moniker and AFAIK there is no other location sharing that name.
*If the layout is renamed, these are the exquisite laser-cut nameboards. Naturally, they are not easy to paint.
Tim
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Tim Hale
Western Thunderer
The dead space behind the farmhouse is particularly difficult to access due to the backscene, to solve the problem a paper template of the space was made and then a piece of basket liner cut to size. 3M Spraymount glue followed by a dusting of static grass finished the job, it will fit perfectly.
Tim