Helston Revisited

[Gilbert]

47 minutes ago, Andy Keane said:

I put it on with microsol and the flood is their micro flat. Of course the photo makes it looks much worse than in real life.

Andy

Would the varnish stiffen and seal the decal rather than soften it?

 

 

 

 

 

[Andy Keane]

Indeed - but I floated it into microsol and it did not soften much at all. I am using A4 sheets of laser print waterslide and the base transfer material is a bit thick I suspect - but it is quite robust. I guess if I got some custom made transfers from one of the specialists maybe it would work better but would probably break up in use - such is life.

[Andy Keane]

A bit of fettling with wire wool, some touch up and more matt varnish and I think the gates will do:

If you look at a very shallow angle and catch the light right you can still see the transfer but I cannot help that:

The long fence belongs to the adjacent properties so I have just gone for faded creosoted wood on that.

Edited Friday at 13:47 by Andy Keane

[Andy Keane]

This weekend I have built three of the Masokits telegraph poles up. I have added brass bottoms to them, matching brass tubes sunk into the layout so they are sturdily held but simply removable. Fiddly to build but better than moulded plastic ones I think. The farthest one just fits under my eves. They are sized to take seven lines: a common earth on the top(1), a general purpose phone circuit(2), an ETS(2), the distant signal warning lamp repeater(1) and the shunting horn line(1):

Insulators on cross-beams like this are now a thing of the past for operational poles of course, but near where I live three poles still have them though with no wires attached.

Edited 1 hour ago by Andy Keane

[Graham T]

Those look really good Andy, will have to remember them for when I finally get to that stage of my next layout.

[Andy Keane]

17 minutes ago, Graham T said:

Those look really good Andy, will have to remember them for when I finally get to that stage of my next layout.

The masokits chap is really old-school. No interactive web site, no email - you write a letter to him enclosing a cheque and them some weeks later the kit arrives in the post, nicely wrapped in a small parcel with clear instructions.