7mm Pencarrow - Cornish BR(S)
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Rob R
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Not so good for hiding the fiddle yard though.........
Osgood
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Rather rules out the archetypal bus too
timbowales
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If the parapets weren't so open a flock of sheep would look good though
Dan Randall
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That took me down an interesting rabbit hole, with some lovely bridge pictures, including the oddball above….
(A good colouring/weathering reference for bridges in general, too).
Regards
Dan
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Pencarrow
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If you modelled that it would look wrong!
Pencarrow
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You've got to love bridges!
Hayfield1
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If you made a model of this how many would say this is a figment of someone's imagination and could never be built
Pencarrow
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I've never had much success with applying heat to Wills sheets. They are armour plating grade plasticard! The path of least resistance is cutting along the courses and manually bending each strip. Was far easier and quicker than I thought it was going to be.
Any heat you apply to get the sheet to bend or curve would end up trashing the surface finish by the time the sheet was warm enough to start moving. I do however apply "heat" to the sheets in terms of solvent to get them to merge in to each other and other parts of the structure.
I would love to find a thinner version of these sheets, and alternatives that are larger and have a different finish. I've got at least one sheet if every stone sheet type going from a vast range of sources, still nothing suitable for the station buildings...
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timbowales
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So, looks like it'll have to be das and a scriber for the station then?
Pencarrow
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I suspect a mixture of approaches and materials but it will probably involve a variety of thicknesses of plasticard 'stone' blocks like the porters lodge.
Whilst I'm wanting the station building done, it's not one I'm looking forward to due to the repetition of elements and the sheer number of door and window openings.
Loving the bridge - no door or window openings eating time.
timbowales
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I wonder which would be less time consuming, DAS and a scriber or cutting, preparing and applying individual stone blocks?
Neither will be as quick as applying sheet material
Neither will be as quick as applying sheet material
Pencarrow
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I wonder which would be less time consuming, DAS and a scriber or cutting, preparing and applying individual stone blocks?
Neither will be as quick as applying sheet material
I don't think there's much in it, but they are very different techniques. Some of it depends on what finish you want. I've used and will continue to use both. Horses for courses.
How right you are! I was looking this morning for a kit for a girder over-bridge for Rowan Colliery (00). The LCUT offering looked exactly like what I want — but your comment had somehow stuck in my mind and I had a second look. I need to find an alternative kit.
I think I would have noticed before buying the magic bridge offered by LCUT.
Pencarrow
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They are not the only ones to have magic floating girders, quite a few modellers have done the same thing, but I'd expect basics like that to be right on a kit.
I think you could modify the kit to make it look better but then either you'll need to increase the girder lengths or place the abutments closer together. By which time you might as well scratch built the bridge...
Indeed. Trouble is Rowan Colliery is meant to be a small, fun, side-project — not a magnum opus. Hence, the search for a suitable kit. On the other hand, there are, you know, certain standards. I will have to resolve that tension … if I can.
We’re going to need a better kit.