TFW’s workshop & Copenhagen Fields
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michael mott
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Tim I'm looking forward to seeing the market modelled especially the art work will they be landscapes or abstract
I couldn't resist. Those prints do look amazing.
I couldn't resist. Those prints do look amazing.
Tim Watson
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michael mott
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That really is an impressive bit of 3D printing! Only someone with your watchmaking skills would suggest carefully scraping down slightly fat tires on such a delicate piece.....I would be more concerned if they looked bald. I'll get my coat now.
Michael
Michael
Tim Watson
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garethashenden
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I may be thinking of a different market on the layout, but isn't Cally Market smaller than 2mm?
Tim Watson
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It is Gareth. ’Stuff’ comes in all shapes and sizes. We will use 1:200 figures and print vehicles etc. small, from on-line resources; I expect we will make some generic 3DP market tables at whatever size suits.
Many of the details from Trains & Terrains will be used in the backs of the terraced houses nearer the front.
When are you next in Blighty?
Tim
Many of the details from Trains & Terrains will be used in the backs of the terraced houses nearer the front.
When are you next in Blighty?
Tim
Tim Watson
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michael mott
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Wonderful stuff, it is the little not so hidden details that give the observer a moment of pleasure when a detail like this is discovered.
Michael
Michael
Tim Watson
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After a mere 41 years, John Birkett-Smith’s superb ‘model of the model’ now has a worthy Perspex showcase.
This is the model plan that was signed off by the MRC committee on the 8th December 1983 for Copenhagen Fields to be built. No point in rushing, one might say; now we need to work out how best to display it with the main layout.
Tim
This is the model plan that was signed off by the MRC committee on the 8th December 1983 for Copenhagen Fields to be built. No point in rushing, one might say; now we need to work out how best to display it with the main layout.
Tim
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Tim Watson
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There is a pleasant irony that our model of Mrs W’s house is more ‘accurate’ than the film when the Caledonian Goods & Coal Yard is displayed on its own. The house physically ‘looks out’ on a large gothic building, albeit not St Pancras, but the Cemetery Building at Belle Isle. ‘All the right notes, not in the right order’. This scene will be on show at the Uckfield exhibition this weekend: look forward to seeing some of you there.
Readers with good memories from last year will recall that I added another pair of houses onto the end of the railway side of the Frederica St terrace, to more closely resemble the Ladykillers opening film sequence. This house was removed from another block next to the park on the Mrs W diorama board: it ‘disappeared’ from view.
With the exhibition at Uckfield looming, something had to be done, so Richard Cook hurriedly made up a kit of the components for a derelict house, with prop supports for its neighbour.
The site has been worked on over the last couple of days.
This makes our fifth demolished / derelict house on CF. In fact the Mrs W diorama could well portray a post war scene - I will bring some suitable road vehicles this weekend, which also makes it more timely for the Ladykillers theme.
A bright poster on a temporary hoarding helps to enliven the rather drab and rundown street. Bill stickers* has also been at work…
Tim
*…will be prosecuted
Readers with good memories from last year will recall that I added another pair of houses onto the end of the railway side of the Frederica St terrace, to more closely resemble the Ladykillers opening film sequence. This house was removed from another block next to the park on the Mrs W diorama board: it ‘disappeared’ from view.
With the exhibition at Uckfield looming, something had to be done, so Richard Cook hurriedly made up a kit of the components for a derelict house, with prop supports for its neighbour.
The site has been worked on over the last couple of days.
This makes our fifth demolished / derelict house on CF. In fact the Mrs W diorama could well portray a post war scene - I will bring some suitable road vehicles this weekend, which also makes it more timely for the Ladykillers theme.
A bright poster on a temporary hoarding helps to enliven the rather drab and rundown street. Bill stickers* has also been at work…
Tim
*…will be prosecuted
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michael mott
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Tim this image brought back vivid memories of my early childhood my Father used to cycle from Acton to Peckham with me as a 3 year old in a seat behind him when we were going to visit a great aunt in 1951 there were many scenes like this along the route. I remember a bit more colour (wallpaper and outlines of where staircases used be).
Michael
Tim Watson
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Thanks Michael. There is a hint of wallpaper on the far upstairs room. But more colour would be better. The stair ways could be on the opposite wall to the chimneys in this construction.
Tim
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Yorkshire Dave
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After a mere 41 years, John Birkett-Smith’s superb ‘model of the model’ now has a worthy Perspex showcase.
This is the model plan that was signed off by the MRC committee on the 8th December 1983 for Copenhagen Fields to be built. No point in rushing, one might say; now we need to work out how best to display it with the main layout.
As in the photo but a suitably sized Routemaster moquette cushion. Better still - Piccadilly Line moquette.
Yorkshire Dave
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his makes our fifth demolished / derelict house on CF. In fact the Mrs W diorama could well portray a post war scene - I will bring some suitable road vehicles this weekend, which also makes it more timely for the Ladykillers theme.
A bright poster on a temporary hoarding helps to enliven the rather drab and rundown street. Bill stickers* has also been at work…
Yes, derelict housing for post-war. For pre-war the hoarding would be on the lines of Site Acquired For or a sign similar to one one seen on the left in this LT Museum photo of Hounslow West b/w glass neg, View of new Hounslow West Underground station, District line, under construction by Topical Press, 1 Jan 1931 | London Transport Museum
Or something like this at Leicester Square B/W glass neg; Hoardings around construction site for new entrance to Leicester Square Underground station by Topical Press, 29 Jun 1932 | London Transport Museum
Tim Watson
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Following some discussion on the LNER forum by former railwaymen, we now have the first of three tunnel lamps in the Copenhagen Goods tunnel.
It is quite visible from the front and will give the viewers pause for thought.
The lamp is a 12v lighthouse LED running at 2-3v with the light pipe well set into the wall. It casts a discrete pool of light into the tunnel and onto the tracks.
Tim
It is quite visible from the front and will give the viewers pause for thought.
The lamp is a 12v lighthouse LED running at 2-3v with the light pipe well set into the wall. It casts a discrete pool of light into the tunnel and onto the tracks.
Tim
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Tim Watson
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The last three days have seen a major overhaul of a Copenhagen Fields A4 Pacific, Dominion of Canada, following a fractured driven-axle crank pin on Thursday. The loco body was made from a Lonestar 1960s push along toy. The chassis was brilliantly engineered by the late Bill Blackburn 25 years ago and this is the first failure after literally hundreds of miles of running. The loco is a stalwart of Copenhagen Fields and essential for pulling the newly completed Coronation set.
The fractured pin on the left, heavily worn opposite number in the middle and new on the right.
The dismantled chassis and gear train can be seen here; the front axle boxes were worn and needed re-metalling.
The final geared axle, now with a new pin in place. The multiple holes in the chassis and inner keeper plate are for oil channels.
Bill fitted anodised aluminium axles to this loco to give insulated wheels, maintaining wiper pick ups on the loco. The worn coupling rod can be seen in the foreground.
Only 85 years apart…
Our next major outing will be at the Manchester show, 13-14th December and then York at Easter.
Tim
The fractured pin on the left, heavily worn opposite number in the middle and new on the right.
The dismantled chassis and gear train can be seen here; the front axle boxes were worn and needed re-metalling.
The final geared axle, now with a new pin in place. The multiple holes in the chassis and inner keeper plate are for oil channels.
Bill fitted anodised aluminium axles to this loco to give insulated wheels, maintaining wiper pick ups on the loco. The worn coupling rod can be seen in the foreground.
Only 85 years apart…
Our next major outing will be at the Manchester show, 13-14th December and then York at Easter.
Tim
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