7mm Heyside: 7mm L&Y, late 50s/early 60s

[Dikitriki]

- a two or three story terrace.

How do you feel about baseboards at 42"? for viewing? for working on the model? Leaving the chimney aside for the moment, what is the highest ridge on the layout and whereabouts is point on the plan?

A 3 story terrace would have a lot of impact.

When I first had Heyside, it stood something like 48" off the ground. Clive and I put up the first board and our immediate thought was 'too high', especially bearing in mind the width. We reduced the height of the legs in 1" chunks until such time as we arrived at a "as high as possible comfortable working height". Even so, we still have to stand on crates or steps to work.

Viewing height, well, could be higher, but it's no trouble to crouch a bit to get the eye at track level. None of us are very tall, but I think there are 2 opposing criteria here, working height and viewing height.

The highest ridge is 65" in 2 places - the warehouse on the inside far left, and the factory on the inside opposite the station to the left of the chimney. Bear in mind 2 things. First, the room in which Heyside lives has a low beamed ceiling, so not much choice on final height, and second, you can't reach over the buildings to uncouple, so automatic couplings are a necessity.

Yours

Richard

 

[mickoo]

Heyside with 12" grid, might be out a few inches here and there.

 

[Dog Star]

Thank you Richard for an excellent response. You have anticipated the thoughts from the Civil Engineer's department further south and provided much useful information.

I appreciate what you mean abiout viewing height and working height - especially as John's stock uses manual couplings.

I am so impressed with the plan of Heyside that I have suggested to John that he follows the example and includes a plan of Hartley Hill in the "Other side of the Fence" thread.

regards, Graham

 

[Dikitriki]

Hi

Clive managed to fight his way through the rain today, and brought along the coaling stage he has made. The L&Y used these to enable pilots to be fed and watered away from base. We'd always intended one to be located here, modelled broadly on that at Werneth, but weren't sure we would get it done for Aylesbury. We did. Another super piece of work from Clive who was rewarded by being let off homework for the week.

My just outshopped Aspinall saddle tank is making use of the facilities, and you can also see the LNWR small arm ground signal on the left. This is also great work, this time by Tim (The Snapper), who is responsible for all the ground signals Thanks Clive and Tim.







Richard

 

[Dikitriki]

Hi

One of the reasons I had my camera out yesterday was that I had been asked to provide some shots for the Aylesbury show guide/publicity. As I get some time, I am removing the extraneous crap from them. Here's the first, my 2P coming out of the cutting with a suburban train.



Richard

 

[Dikitriki]

And the next.....



That's it for a bit - better do some work!

Richard

 

[Dog Star]

If I may be so bold, the beam for the buffer stop in post no.638 needs a bit of distressing... and some compressed and shiny dirt.

 

[Dikitriki]

Sorry to just keep dumping photos one at a time, but my speed of processing is painful.

This one is an interesting view, with afternoon sun reflecting off the warehouse windows.



Cheers

Richard

 

[Steve Cook]

I like that a lot Richard
Capturing the 'glint' adds a good air of realism

 

[Buckjumper]

Agree with Steve about the 'sunlight' reflecting off the window - that's just classy. I very much like the simplicity of your allotments too.

 

[Dog Star]

... afternoon sun reflecting off the warehouse windows.

A very nice effect and not what I would have expected.

I am not sure that reflected sun is appropriate for warehouse windows beside the Oldham Loop in the later years of steam working. Smoke, soot, dirty rain would all have combined to give windows a dull, matt, coating of grunge.... after all, which warehouse owners would have willingly spent brass on cleaning the windows? or the paintwork on the lucam for that matter.

Still worth studying the details of the pictures, love the "weeds" in the rough grass.

 

[Jordan]

That last shot strikes a chord.... obviously allotments must've been far more popular in the 50's than today - necessary then even as wartime rationing was only just disappearing; somehow I associate a lot of Steam Era photos with allotments in the foreground...

 

[lancer1027]

Very nice pics Richard.. The sunlight in the windows looks very affective

Rob

 

[3 LINK]

A very nice effect and not what I would have expected.

I am not sure that reflected sun is appropriate for warehouse windows beside the Oldham Loop in the later years of steam working. Smoke, soot, dirty rain would all have combined to give windows a dull, matt, coating of grunge.... after all, which warehouse owners would have willingly spent brass on cleaning the windows? or the paintwork on the lucam for that matter.

They would need some bl**dy long ladders, it's the background on the right hand side that does it for me, the way the railway blends into the scenery is classic .

Martyn.

 

[Dikitriki]

......and another one.

''Little and Large''



Cheers

Richard

 

[Suddaby]

And the next.....

View attachment 15322

That's it for a bit - better do some work!

Richard

Particularly like this one Richard!

Edit:- Hmmm, thought it might bring the photo with it - it's the one looking through the allotment back into the cutting. Very atmospheric. (from post 639)

Kevin.

 

[mickoo]

Nic

......and another one.

''Little and Large''

View attachment 15325

Cheers

Richard

Nice shot, but for the life of me I couldn't work out what was niggling me about the 9F LOL and now I can, no fault levelled at the builder please be rest assured! Looks like a kit issue, a trivia I'm sure but has thrown me about its looks, whose kit is it please? Doesn't look like Seven or DJH.

Nice L&Y tank BTW LOL.

Kindest

 

[Dikitriki]

Hi Mick

What has caught your attention?

It's an Andy Beaton kit, though I'm not sure it's on the market at the moment.

Richard

 

[mickoo]

Hi Mick

What has caught your attention?

It's an Andy Beaton kit, though I'm not sure it's on the market at the moment.

Richard

Richard, never heard of them, but then I'm new to this 'scene' LOL

It's the cab side and roof, there is a small taper inward on the upper half of the side sheet and the roof is flat'er', it also looks like the gutter is a fraction too low and should be slightly above the straight part of the boiler handrails, the lower gutter would account for the extra curve in the cab roof, but its the cab spectacle plate which is the give away, it's too square, the upper part has more radius to follow the cab roof line.

Attached an image as close as I can get to your photo angle


Its trivia I know but it caught my eye...and gave me an excuse to dig up my 9F reference collection and cast aspiring eyes...again...at the DJH offering, shame the Aster one is so dashed expensive...and popular, Gauge 1 clubs seem to be awash with 9Fs these days, but no Crosti's!!

Kindest

 

[Dikitriki]

Hi Mick

Yes, you're right. I am 85% of the way through a 9F from the same stable, and I stalled with the cab/roof/firebox interface which is wrong. I think I now have enough information to correct it, but it's a bit of a way down the pile, and it means some scratchbuilding that I didn't really want to do at the time.

I have another picture of Heyside's 9F, which is a really good build of the kit, but the cab roof isn't right.

Oh, the never-ending search for perfection.....



Cheers

Richard