Aston On Clun. A forgotten Great Western outpost.

[MrWolf]

Thanks, believe it or not, it isn't some fancy photoshoppery, it's dull daylight on a very pale blue wall. 

One of those glad I had a camera to hand moments.

[NHY 581]

Aha! 

 

You know my thoughts on backscenes.......the plainer the better....

 

Right up this particular sheep's street. 

 

Rob. 

[MrWolf]

I just realised that the station building is missing from that photo. 🙄

[John Besley]

Just like today in Somerset

[MrWolf]

The same 300 odd miles north.

[MrWolf]

A new arrival in the yard at Aston on Clun.

Steam trials have been conducted despite all the missing parts!

 

[Winslow Boy]

Now that's nifty paint job Rob. May I enquire as to which company it belongs to? It wouldn't be the C & W would it by any chance?

[MrWolf]

It's works photographic grey, innit?😉

 

[MrWolf]

Bits everywhere. Chassis, wheels and backhead painted with a mixture of Humbrol black 33 and gunmetal 53.

The reversing lever is from a scrap Dean Goods and the Belpaire backhead is from the @chuffinghellparts bin.

The red bufferbeams are also from the Dean Goods, but were too narrow, the printed ones that I'm fitting with Slater's Churchward pattern sprung buffers are way better anyway.

 

[NHY 581]

Tidy.

[Winslow Boy]

7 hours ago, MrWolf said:

It's works photographic grey, innit?😉

 

 

So not one of the Chuffinhell & Wolf line?

Edited June 15, 2022 by Winslow Boy

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

Tidy.

 

Arhm Tidy as in neat or just tidy?

[JustinDean]

9 hours ago, MrWolf said:

A new arrival in the yard at Aston on Clun.

Steam trials have been conducted despite all the missing parts!

 

 

The quality of your print is way beyond a ‘professional’ company I purchased from previously. This is looking great Rob and makes me wish I had the time to invest in 3D printing.

[MrWolf]

3 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Arhm Tidy as in neat or just tidy?

 

I believe it's derived from "There's tidy, see" or similar.

[MrWolf]

3 hours ago, JustinDean said:

The quality of your print is way beyond a ‘professional’ company I purchased from previously. This is looking great Rob and makes me wish I had the time to invest in 3D printing.

 

Thanks Jay, but I can't take credit for the print, that's down to Chris's skill and patience. We just kept bouncing the model's details and manufacturing methods back and forth and the whole thing grew from sawing up a Triang Jinty to cannibalising modern Hornby and Bachmann items for the running gear, sourcing a few of the details that needed to be robust and making the rest.

 

I think that the only stumbling block to leaving behind the RTR parts is knowing where to source coupling rods of the right length.

[Regularity]

11 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Chassis, wheels and backhead painted with a mixture of Humbrol black 33 and gunmetal 53.

You augment/replace either colour with Matt leather (62) to get a more weathered appearance, and indeed use the Metalcote gunmetal (27004) for a more “sooty” look on things like the cab roof: a bit of burnishing with a clean dry brush brings out a few shiny bits nicely.

 

[JustinDean]

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

 

Thanks Jay, but I can't take credit for the print, that's down to Chris's skill and patience. We just kept bouncing the model's details and manufacturing methods back and forth and the whole thing grew from sawing up a Triang Jinty to cannibalising modern Hornby and Bachmann items for the running gear, sourcing a few of the details that needed to be robust and making the rest.

 

I think that the only stumbling block to leaving behind the RTR parts is knowing where to source coupling rods of the right length.

Well it seems like a productive and worthwhile collaboration mate and if you guys ever fancy a crack at LNWR tenders used as water carriers or the NLR tanks used on the C&HPR do let me know.

 

Jay

[Regularity]

14 hours ago, MrWolf said:

A new arrival in the yard at Aston on Clun.

Steam trials have been conducted despite all the missing parts!

 

 

What was it printed on and with?

(Machine and resin.)

[chuffinghell]

2 hours ago, Regularity said:

What was it printed on and with?

(Machine and resin.)

Printed on an Anycubic Mono using Anycubic basic resin

 

Chris

 

 

 

Edited June 15, 2022 by chuffinghell

[MrWolf]

Whilst waiting for some odds and ends to arrive for No.23, I have turned my attention back to the layout. The station building is receiving a light weathering, some of which is going to be knocked back a little, having given it a few hours. It still needs signs, a couple of drain pipes and door knobs. I'm thinking the heavy cast iron type that are about 2-3/4" diameter. That way I can use the old dodge of track pins, unless anyone knows of a better way?

 

 

 

 

 

[Alister_G]

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

I'm thinking the heavy cast iron type that are about 2-3/4" diameter. That way I can use the old dodge of track pins, unless anyone knows of a better way?

 

Unless you have some 1mm round styrene rod, if you have a small offcut can be cut and filed round to make it more knobesque.

 

Al.

[chuffinghell]

6 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

…..make it more knobesque.

 

[Rowsley17D]

For door knobs I use pin heads. 

[MrWolf]

Knobesque.

 

Now there's a word which is going to get a lot of use!

[Captain Kernow]

2 hours ago, MrWolf said:

the old dodge of track pins, unless anyone knows of a better way?

Brass lace-making pins, put into a pin vice, which in turn is put into the chuck of a mains electric drill, ensure everything is nice and tight and then turn down to preferred size with a needle file. Result - nice shiny brass door knobs!