Mike Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Today I have mostly been playing trains and thinking, so far I have built and sold on to others who are exhibiting my once creations; Lenches bridge ( now Bankfield Road) Ashwood Basin, Reely Grate, Primrose Hill, The Muck Works and not forgetting Mount Pleasant. My latest creation Wellington Street will after its allotted show time will go like those before it, I have perhaps one more layout before I retire from the exhibition circuit which will be The Wallows. Another Earl of Dudleys based layout featuring a working canal lock (no water involved) and other features. Watch this space!! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tove Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 I have perhaps one more layout before I retire from the exhibition circuit which will be The Wallows. Shirley not...!!. That sound`s a bit final Mike.... Another Earl of Dudleys based layout featuring a working canal lock (no water involved) and other features. Watch this space!! That`ll be a dry dock then..... Also how about a tat man with his horse and cart doing his rounds?. Brian. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Well with Warley 2016 done with Wellington Street it's time to progress with The Wallows. I have designed the track plan and made a start by building the point work all 4 of them. I have to order the baseboards from Grange and Hodder for delivery this side of Xmas, but I won't be starting to lay any track until the new year. The footprint will be 2.7 metres x 40cms or 9ftx16" in old money. I hope to have it built and running for Warley 2017 as I would love to do their 50th show with my 10th and possibly last layout. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railwayrod Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Mike you are an incredible man. So many layouts all finished to a very high standard and all that exhibiting too. Great stuff and thank you for providing me (and I am sure many others) with such gooies both at exhibitions and on RMweb. I for one hope that it will continue for many more years to come. Really looking forward to seeing your new creation develop and I will be following it religiously on this thread (no not on my knees facing East). I am really looking forward with eager anticipation to this one. Rod Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share Posted December 2, 2016 (edited) Thanks for the kind comments, this is what The Wallows is all about:- The Wallows- Earl of Dudley Pensnett Railway The area just to the north of the Dudley-Brierley Hill road is known as The Wallows, and was very much the centre of the Pensnett Railway, The principal feature of The Wallows area was the canal basin at the end of Lord Ward’s canal. The model has been designed to include some of the features of the area such as the Old Park Engineering Works, a part of the canal and of course the inevitable pub* a feature that has become the signature building of all my previous Earl of Dudley based layouts. * The Earl of Dudley's Arms Edited December 2, 2016 by Mike 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 7, 2016 Author Share Posted December 7, 2016 (edited) Awaiting delivery of the baseboards, so whilst I have my bench set up for buildings (see Wellington Street post today) I thought I'd make a start on the pub. Photos over the weekend. Booked for Warley 2017 so no hanging about. Edited December 7, 2016 by Mike 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railwayrod Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 If the pub is even half as good as your other buildings it will be excellent. Watching progress with interest. Rod Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 I really need to change the pub name as The Earl of Dudley Arms albeit the rebuilt modern one, got closed down after continuing violence. It might be something like Duke William or The Four Furnaces. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 I really need to change the pub name as The Earl of Dudley Arms albeit the rebuilt modern one, got closed down after continuing violence. It might be something like Duke William or The Four Furnaces. I lived next door to that pub (the modern one!) when I was little - in fact I watched them build it: I would have been 4 at the time, and the builders 'gave' me a load of sand for my father to build me a sandpit in the garden! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 13, 2016 Author Share Posted December 13, 2016 Pub name sorted: Royal Oak which was in Wallows Street. Building under way lots to do in particular the obscure glass in the lower half of the bay windows, brass door handle and once the roof is in place, guttering and down pipe. May just fit an inn sign on the wall or a gallows type. Jury is still out on this. Just need to find out who was the brewery. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Track plan please Mike!!! Looking forward to this layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railwayrod Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 The pub looks great Mike. I frosted my roof lights in the goods shed by using very, very fine emery paper on clear plastic. It seems to work OK but I suspect that more experienced modellers will have simpler and more effective ideas. Keep up the good work I am enjoying watching the layout "grow". Rod Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John R Smith Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 I like the margin glazing in the windows . . . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 14, 2016 Author Share Posted December 14, 2016 Wolverhampton & Dudley Brewery 1909 HITCHMOUGH’S BLACK COUNTRY PUBS. A little bit more progress on the Royal Oak with guttering, down pipe, stench pipe , door handle.sign and obscure glass. I take no credit for using waxed tracing paper for the obscure effect, as this was my wife's suggestion. Now its on to the roof and flashing round the chimney stack. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Like the Pub, but there appears to be a problem with your tracklaying... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 14, 2016 Author Share Posted December 14, 2016 Like the Pub, but there appears to be a problem with your tracklaying... Must do something about that incline. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 17, 2016 Author Share Posted December 17, 2016 Royal Oak almost finished. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold MarshLane Posted December 17, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2016 Royal Oak almost finished. royal oak3.jpg Hi Mike, Very impressive! May I ask how you did the roof? Regards Rich Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 Hi Rich, nothing clever or sophisticated just Slaters Plasticard roof tile sheet cut into strips and glued in place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted December 18, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2016 You could add some moss on those bay window and porch roofs, tucked in tight against the wall. Stu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
two tone green Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 I can smell the hops. Very nice indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 I can smell the hops. Very nice indeed. Hops..??!!?? That's not what most old Black Country town pubs smelled of... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 (edited) Hops..??!!?? That's not what most old Black Country town pubs smelled of... Oh so true Edited December 18, 2016 by Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 26, 2016 Author Share Posted December 26, 2016 It must be the gin, although you can't have too much gin. but I posted what should have been here in my Wellington Road thread.DOH! Well I have had a day in my gentleman's retreat and have a new work station, completed 4 A4 points; 3left-hand and 1 right-hand . The laser cut baseboard parts ( Grainge & Hodder) arrived just before the holiday, so it's all systems go starting 3rd Jan 2017, I should be sober by then. My 9year old Grandson will be helping me to assemble the baseboards, I have given him his own power drill and he will under pain of death be allowed to use other power tools. Watch this space as they say. Who ever they are!! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 Just to prove it's not all smoke and mirrors, here are the fruits of my day in the gentleman's retreat plus the baseboard kits. Note to self; must clean the epoxy off the insulated rail breaks. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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