Gopher Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Graham T said: All those of a purist disposition should probably look away now... Having slept on it, I've decided I can live with having the wrong cranks on the two goods yard points. They are hardly noticeable from normal viewing distance, and if I can live with the overscale Wills roddage then I can also live with these two cranks! Plus, if I keep changing everything that I don't think is quite right then I will never actually make any progress. I'd have to rebuild my baseboards and do new backscenes for a start. So, they will be staying. For now at least. Absolutely agree - it is amazing what you can live with by way of small inaccuracies. I admire Modellers who aim for (and achieve) total accuracy in their modelling. However in my case that is never going to happen. I'd rather complete a layout, to a reasonable overall standard, and get it running than sweat over the smaller details which are hard to view from three foot away. I know sod all about art but think the term "impressionist" might apply to my modelling. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 13, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 13, 2021 7 minutes ago, Gopher said: Absolutely agree - it is amazing what you can live with by way of small inaccuracies. I admire Modellers who aim for (and achieve) total accuracy in their modelling. However in my case that is never going to happen. I'd rather complete a layout, to a reasonable overall standard, and get it running than sweat over the smaller details which are hard to view from three foot away. I know sod all about art but think the term "impressionist" might apply to my modelling. I think you're absolutely right, and "impressionist" is a good term to apply. Indeed @Gedward referred to building his layout as being like making a 3D painting - I thought that was a great way of describing it. For me, the overall scene is the thing, and I also enjoy all the different skills that are required to make it all work (many of which I still lack!) 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold slow8dirty Posted September 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Graham T said: @slow8dirty As another former matelot this might interest you. Totally off-topic, but something I built about 15 years ago. She's 1:72 scale. Very nice, I've been tempted by the Revell Flower kits but not bit yet. Back on track! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 13, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 13, 2021 5 minutes ago, slow8dirty said: Very nice, I've been tempted by the Revell Flower kits but not bit yet. Back on track! Best not to bite. That model became a bit of a bottomless money pit! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted September 13, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 13, 2021 3 hours ago, Graham T said: Totally off-topic, but something I built about 15 years ago. She's 1:72 scale. One of my ex colleagues, Bobby was a model maker extraordinaire. (See portrait on my thread). The guy was an absolute genius at making pretty much anything from scratch. His main 'thing' was boats. Mostly sail boats/ships. He would build them as presents for senior staff etc. I was very lucky to receive one for my 50th birthday back in 2005. He built the ship from exact plans and then placed it in a 'sea' or 'river'. And built a display case to put it in. He also loved to put ships in bottles and then explain exactly all his magic to anyone interested. Bobby Norris RIP. You are my inspiration. You gave me the courage to try scratch building. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 13, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 13, 2021 Wow, very impressive! An awful lot of work in that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 47 minutes ago, Gedward said: Wow - simply wow - what a totally wonderful model - wow again 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 13, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 13, 2021 (edited) Back to the trains The ground frame is now bedded in, and the rods have been painted with gunmetal, and a touch of oily steel around the cranks. I think I can live with them, and, as my grandma used to say "a blind man on a galloping horse would be glad to see it". Quite a Western looking scene I think. Edited April 9, 2022 by Graham T 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 13, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 13, 2021 (edited) I've also made a start on the lean to store for the end of the goods shed; a fun little project. A plasticard shell with coffee stirrers as the cover, and then plasticard strips for the joints. Unfortunately the stirrers are a bit too wide as they come, so need to be split, which is more fiddly than you would expect! Luckily I have a box of 1,000... Rather than trying to cut each individual length to the correct size I made them slightly large, glued them all onto the plasticard shell, and then used a razor saw to trim off the ends once the glue had dried. Much easier, quicker, and more accurate! Edited April 9, 2022 by Graham T Extra words 4 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 14, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2021 (edited) I grabbed a few minutes in breaks from work to do a little more pottering about with the lean-to. The two walls are only propped together at the moment. Edited April 9, 2022 by Graham T 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 15, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2021 (edited) The first layers of paint are now on the goods shed, initially to seal the wood (which is as thirsty as a sailor on shore leave), and then to give a base for dry brushing the brickwork. I'm using the Timbertracks painting guide for this, but have opted for acrylics rather than enamels. So for the mortar I've opted for Tamiya XF-55, deck tan. I've also used some Mr Surfacer to fill a few gaps here and there. Edited April 9, 2022 by Graham T 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted September 15, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 15, 2021 Looks like your plans are coming together nicely. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 15, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2021 Just now, Gedward said: Looks like your plans are coming together nicely. Thanks George, it's getting there, but I'm a bit of a slow modeller! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted September 15, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 15, 2021 11 minutes ago, Graham T said: slow modeller! Slower than me? I'm in the Guinness book of slow modelling. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 15, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2021 (edited) Just a bit of test fitting. The store shed looks quite large to my eye, but then I look at the size of the door and think that the front elevation of it couldn't really be made much smaller. And I've based the length of the side elevation on the length of a sleeper, as I'll be using some sleepers to make a half-height wall at this end of the lean-to. Edited April 9, 2022 by Graham T 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted September 15, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 15, 2021 On 13/09/2021 at 22:05, Graham T said: Rather than trying to cut each individual length to the correct size I made them slightly large, glued them all onto the plasticard shell, and then used a razor saw to trim off the ends once the glue had dried. Much easier, quicker, and more accurate! Definitely the easiest way to make planks the right length. Sometimes it's handy to leave one longer than needed, to give a handle to hold when painting, also to test paint dryness on. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted September 15, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 15, 2021 (edited) Rather than trying to cut each individual length to the correct size I made them slightly large, glued them all onto the plasticard shell, and then used a razor saw to trim off the ends once the glue had dried. Much easier, quicker, and more accurate! I was doing exactly the same and it worked quite well. But being a bit of tool junkie, I recently purchased a 'Chopper'. It's basically a razor blade mounted on an arm and gives very accurate repeat cuts. I'm planning on building a bunch of 'sleeper' retaining walls. So it should speed up the process. Edited September 15, 2021 by Gedward Editing copy and typos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 16, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2021 (edited) Here's the result of a first dry-brushing with a mix of Hobby Colour purple red and sandy brown. It doesn't look too bad I think, but a bit uniform perhaps. I will probably go over it again with a slightly paler colour - just adding a drop or two of white to the mix. I noticed that the roof has lifted a little, need to glue that back down. Edited April 9, 2022 by Graham T 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 16, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2021 What I'm trying to do is match the colour on the external walls to the the Scalescenes red brick paper you can see at the base of the interior loading platform... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 16, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2021 (edited) The lighter shade made the walls look too pink, so I dry brushed over it again with the first colour mix. And now I think it looks too red again! Next will be to try a wash (once everything has dried) of the mortar colour, and then wipe it straight back off. Of course, the brick colour will look a bit different to the eye when the office roof and woodwork have been painted as well, but I can't tackle those until the dry brushing is all done. Provided things look ok at that stage I'll pick out a few of the bricks in slightly different shades then. I've also made a bit more headway with the lean-to. The base is added just to give me a fighting chance of making everything more or less square. The roof has a layer of tissue paper on it to represent the felt. I think I need to add another thin styrene strip at each corner of the wooden store room too. Edited April 9, 2022 by Graham T 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 17, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2021 (edited) This is beginning to feel like the never ending saga of the goods shed brickwork... The wash of mortar colour (deck tan) has helped to tone down the pinkness of the bricks, but I still think it needs to be a bit more of an orangey-brown colour. So, next will be a dry brush of mixed sandy brown and rust red, both from Hobby Colour, followed by picking out some individual bricks, and then another mortar wash to tie everything together. Then it's going to be called finished, come what may! Edited April 9, 2022 by Graham T 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 17, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2021 (edited) No more painting bricks! At least not for a while. One photo in (dull) natural light, and then one in place on the layout. I think it's more or less ok now. I've learnt some lessons for the next time anyway. Is it still too pink-looking? What do you think? Edited April 9, 2022 by Graham T 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted September 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 17, 2021 If I might be so bold. The bricks you've picked out seem a bit too bright and they're all singles. On my screen they look sky blue. I think I would use a similar shade to the main brick and add more. Include some multiples also. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 17, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2021 Thanks George. Yes, those ones are light grey in fact, and I do think they stand out a bit... I'll add a few more of the more muted shades, and group some together too. Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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