7mm Pencarrow - Cornish BR(S)

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So this evening I've been working on the grain store. Been far too long since it last had some attention. The roof was slated in 2020 during the first lockdown...



There's three very obvious holes and they need various windows and louvres. I had a go at a couple many moons ago but they got binned.

First off is the large 8 x12 paned window in the central section.


I tried scribing lines in clear plastic but the result looked naff. So I went back to building it up from microstrip. The starting effort is below. Most of the top row of panes will be obscured by slates.



Over 120 parts on the above window!

 

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Milepost attached to the building. 6 miles, 7 furlongs, 5 chains and 8 yards...

 

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Little things that make a big difference.

 

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I first drew up a plan for the grain store on 19th June 2015... And building it started 3rd July 2015. Phew, not quite 10 years yet!

 

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Found me, I'll be here:

 

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Roughly positioned, and still with the backing paper on, but looking good.

 

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Well that's the one I was dreading done. It will hopefully look a bit subtler one painted but I think it will finish that section of the building off nicely. Needs slates hanging across the top and a weather strip at the bottom. I'll probably use some reasonably thick glazing behind it to prevent fingers getting poked through and destroying the lattice.



The diamond glazing to the right was done for me as a brass etch by Mick.

 

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And now primed, painted and glazed...
(Garish stonework yet to be toned down)


Where did I put the spare slates....?

 

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So the next two openings to fill are as follows...

The wide and shallow one started out as three parallel sets of louvres and the left hand opening almost looks like a set of half glazed doors...


...but by the early to mid 60s the louvres had definitely seen better days, and two set were replaced with what looks like some very Heath Robinson infill.







The above are tiny snips from the background of various much larger photos and film. Far from easy to work out what's going on.

For the left side I made these a fair few years ago but ended up binning them as they looked too dolls house.


Currently trying to decide what it is I should be making.?!?

 

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On the basis that I can't decide what to make for the other openings, I've put the decision off by adding some missing slates.



The slate arrangement was copied from a photo of the building.

 

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Right, it's an approximation but this is what I've made for the left hand opening. I decided there was some sort of lintel support in front of the doors/windows.

 

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And primed and painted up...



And now fitted...



As I said, an approximation.

 

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Now making a start on filling the last opening. ⅓ will be a louvre, ⅓ knackered old window, ⅓ boarded up.

The louvre is scratchbuilt from microstrip.



Some damage apparent.



The front edges will be tidied up when the glue has set overnight.

And in place.

 

[mickoo]

The diamond glazing to the right was done for me as a brass etch by Mick.

I thought it looked familiar, fits a treat

 

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Minor mod... Having another look at photos, I think there's a wooden strip at the bottom of the opening. Louvre trimmed slightly and refitted to the base strip. Post added to the left side, probably yet another location the roof needed support...

 

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I thought it looked familiar, fits a treat

Cheers Mick. I fitted it a while back but have only just painted and glazed it. Does look the part. Different to the other wooden framed windows.

 

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Working again on this building, has had me looking again at the photos of the prototype. Since starting the build 9ish years ago, I've slowly built up a collection of better photos. Some of the more recent finds have also been in colour. Interestingly the stonework seems to be very different to that used on the later LSWR station buildings.

The latter seems to have a good variety of tones in the dressed blocks. Stupidly I matched this on starting to paint up the grain store. The original intention was to tone back and blend the current Mr Blobby colours. I'm now thinking more of a repaint is required as there's nowhere near the colour variation in the grain store.

What I'm seeing in photos is different coloured stone patches in blocks of stonework on the building. I know it was built and altered over time, but I'm now thinking it was built on the cheap from cartloads of whatever was available at the time the masons needed stone. The roof tiling is definitely from rough 'seconds'.

So, once again the first rule is... Don't assume, look at photos and confirm. Stupid boy.

 

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Working again on this building, has had me looking again at the photos of the prototype. Since starting the build 9ish years ago, I've slowly built up a collection of better photos. Some of the more recent finds have also been in colour. Interestingly the stonework seems to be very different to that used on the later LSWR station buildings.

The latter seems to have a good variety of tones in the dressed blocks. Stupidly I matched this on starting to paint up the grain store. The original intention was to tone back and blend the current Mr Blobby colours. I'm now thinking more of a repaint is required as there's nowhere near the colour variation in the grain store.

What I'm seeing in photos is different coloured stone patches in blocks of stonework on the building. I know it was built and altered over time, but I'm now thinking it was built on the cheap from cartloads of whatever was available at the time the masons needed stone. The roof tiling is definitely from rough 'seconds'.

So, once again the first rule is... Don't assume, look at photos and confirm. Stupid boy.

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What is the stone? Do you know? It doesn’t look like Cornish granite, more like a sandstone perhaps? Almost certainly locally sourced so other nearby buildings — presumably still in existence — will be similar.

 

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What is the stone? Do you know? It doesn’t look like Cornish granite, more like a sandstone perhaps? Almost certainly locally sourced so other nearby buildings — presumably still in existence — will be similar.

No idea what it was. I've looked previously for period buildings that appear the same in photos. There's a couple on the photos above but all have been demolished. Other buildings that remain seem different, but unsure if that's just colour rendition.

 

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This is the building I went looking for as it appears to be identical in colour as the grain store.



Edit to say it's no longer around, like just about everything else in the photo.