Booking Hall Posted November 17, 2017 Author Share Posted November 17, 2017 (edited) Well, I finished it in time for this weekend's Pendle Forest Model Railway Society exhibition, even the paint is dry; and to save even more money I made my own cakebox! Edited November 17, 2017 by Booking Hall 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Midland Mole Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 Beautiful, absolutely excellent work! Alex Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
col_kilgore Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 Great stuff , love the details on the telegraph pole. I think it just looks " right " , it looks just like one of those places I would have loved to use as a young lad to hang about in and smoke my dads fags ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted November 18, 2017 Author Share Posted November 18, 2017 Beautiful, absolutely excellent work! Alex Thank you Alex, I appreciate that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted November 18, 2017 Author Share Posted November 18, 2017 Great stuff , love the details on the telegraph pole. I think it just looks " right " , it looks just like one of those places I would have loved to use as a young lad to hang about in and smoke my dads fags ! Thanks for that, I know just what you mean! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryP123 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 WOW! Amazing work! Truly stunning!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 WOW! Amazing work! Truly stunning!!!! Thanks for that HenryP123, that's nice of you to say so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefromacrossthepond Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Love the brickwork. And the weathering. Great job! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
outcastjack Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 Just brilliant, I love the hanging ceiling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 Well, it's been a while, but with several other more pressing modelling projects out of the way, I can get back to my original idea, a model of the tiny (but very interesting) Boscarne Exchange Platform. After a rummage around for bits and pieces I've cut a piece of MDF for the base and assembled together some oddments of track and foam. Which is as far as I got today, because I suddenly remembered yet another job I need to do whilst the weather is fine! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 A little bit more done over the past couple of days. I've used the foam bases from supermarket pizzas to build up the levels in contours, which were then sanded to a gradient. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted June 27, 2018 Author Share Posted June 27, 2018 Slight modification to the contours carried out, all painted brown as an undercoat; and a length of PECO code 100 track with the sleepers re-gauged for a more prototypical appearance. This piece of track is of some considerable age, and the chair mouldings are much more pronounced than the current variety, so being more suggestive of bull-head trackwork. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 Track fixed down and weathered, ready for ballasting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted July 4, 2018 Author Share Posted July 4, 2018 Design drawings for the ground level sleeper built platform on the Bodmin North line, based on photographic evidence; and most of the components for it cut and awaiting assembly. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 The ground level platform is now fixed in position and awaits its fencing. Sketch drawing made for the more substantial Boscarne Junction platform on the Bodmin General line, again based purely on photographic evidence. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 The hot weather put paid to modeling activity for a while, but I got a bit done today, and Boscarne Junction platform is largely complete. I've had to shorten it a bit otherwise it would have taken up most of the front of the diorama. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 Refurbishing our bathroom put paid to most modelling for a few weeks, but some progress has been made recently. All the fencing and lights/lamp-posts are now made and fixed, and the track has been ballasted. My stock of fine grit from a path at Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire, which I use for ballast, had run out, and I didn't want to buy a packet of commercial stuff for such a small length of track, so I spent a couple of hours in the garden bashing a piece of limestone with a hammer and sieving the results! Just a lattice signal to make (I have enough parts left over from a Ratio kit), a telegraph pole or two to detail/modify and then it's on to the ground cover. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 Well, that's it just about finished. Might just add a passenger enjoying the beauty of the Cornish scenery whilst waiting for the train to Bodmin North. I've tried to recreate some of the reference photos I used to build this model, and if I knew how to use Photoshop properly, I could put them side-by-side! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Banger Blue Posted September 6, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 6, 2018 Well, that's it just about finished. Might just add a passenger enjoying the beauty of the Cornish scenery whilst waiting for the train to Bodmin North. I've tried to recreate some of the reference photos I used to build this model, and if I knew how to use Photoshop properly, I could put them side-by-side!Had a little play with an App on my iPad, hows this: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booking Hall Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 (edited) Had a little play with an App on my iPad, hows this: FC5EFDFC-DD21-41E7-9F86-C57A5F8E3B33.png That's great, thanks very much! Edited September 6, 2018 by Booking Hall Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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