RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted July 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27 I'll echo what John said, Tim. It is really nice to see Callow Lane again. Keep up the good work! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 27 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27 Thanks chaps. Scenic work is currently concentrated on the back garden of the chip shop, making everything ready to permanently install the row of 4 cottage backs and sorting out 'the lie of the land' between said cottages and the Taffson Evans factory. Photos will follow. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted August 2 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 2 On 27/07/2024 at 19:32, Captain Kernow said: Scenic work is currently concentrated on the back garden of the chip shop, making everything ready to permanently install the row of 4 cottage backs and sorting out 'the lie of the land' between said cottages and the Taffson Evans factory. A couple of photos of recent, modest progress. The abandoned hut is from the range of @mudmagnet and isn't fixed down yet, as there is still more painting and weathering to do. The cottage backs aren't fixed permanently in place yet, either, as I need them on the bench for more detailing work in their back yards, but you can see the tin bath so kindly made for me by Paglesham (formerly of this parish, many years ago). The old caravan next to the chip shop is now fixed in place, but needs more overgrowth around it. The metal fencing down the length of the 'cinder path' hasn't yet been attached, either. I'll also have to do something about the obvious join in the brickwork in front of the (blue painted) Taffson Evans factory. 24 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted August 2 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2 Lovely stuff, Tim. Will there be a young CK and friend 'spotting' behind the railings? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 2 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2 57 minutes ago, Brinkly said: Will there be a young CK and friend 'spotting' behind the railings? I doubt it! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted August 8 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 8 Some more images, taken a couple of days ago, showing the area around the cottages and the chip shop in a much more advanced state of near-completion. The lineside factory is in it's planned location, but hasn't yet been fixed down. There is normally the road overbridge, where the plywood blanking piece is, but I can't put both boards up together in my work room. 31 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted August 8 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 8 Love the ballast colour, makes a change from the usual shades of grey. May I ask it's origins please? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 8 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 8 29 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: Love the ballast colour, makes a change from the usual shades of grey. May I ask it's origins please? A mixture of Woodland Scenics, Carrs and some Solent sand. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted August 14 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 14 Further scenic work has seen the surviving 'mound' of one of the disused platforms grassed over and the somehow still surviving Midland Railway fencing installed. More vegetation is to be put in place here. The area behind the old platform has been painted and will eventually become the local coal merchant's yard. The Taffson Evans factory has been glued in place, more scenic work is required to complete the 'bedding in' process, more vegetation etc. I bought this rather nice little 3-D printed brick yard office from MS Models the other day, which has already been sprayed with red primer. It will go here at the entrance to the yard and act as the coal merchant's office: 27 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 Top notch, Tim. Lots of detail without being "twee". Super muted-colouring too. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted August 19 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 19 A couple of views on the other scenic board: 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 There's something about old railway huts; missing from the current clinical railway scene of grey aluminium. I remember, as a lad, going into town on the trolleybus and seeing the Way & Works stores buildings (where the Railway Technical Centre was later built). It always struck me that wagons on those sleeper-boarded tracks alongside the shed could travel to anywhere in the country on the same set of metals. But I digress... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 19 On 14/08/2024 at 16:42, Captain Kernow said: Further scenic work has seen the surviving 'mound' of one of the disused platforms grassed over and the somehow still surviving Midland Railway fencing installed. A lot of that diagonal paled fencing, though of Midland origin, was installed in LMS days, replacing various earlier designs of post-and-rail or vertical paled fencing. Not that that matters one jot for your period! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted August 23 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 23 A different view on the same baseboard, this time looking towards where the main fiddle yard will go. There is still a lot of scenic detail to be added to the already-grassed areas, plus another small brick building at the entrance to the goods yard. There is also a piece of brick walling missing between the factory gates on the right and the bulk of the factory, nearer the camera. The backscene will run from behind the cottages, through 90 degrees and then behind the gates and the main factory, so the viewing side is from the left hand edge of the layout. The line on the right hand side is the private siding access to another factory. The wooden gate on the right would at one time have been kept closed across the line, but it's now fallen into disrepair: Slightly more elevated view (the cottages aren't permanently fixed to the layout yet, I need to make some pavement to go in front of them. Another job looming is to get my mind around how servos actually work, how to wire them up etc., so that I can install the level crossing gates over the double track section and get them working properly... 28 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted August 26 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted August 26 More work has seen the scenery along the back of the layout advance to the stage where I was able to turn the board around this afternoon, to enable the scenery at the front (viewing side) to be worked on. Prior to that, I took some photos around the chocolate factory private siding. Telephoto view from the chocolate factory fiddle yard, back towards the layout (most of my P4 box vans haven't been fully painted and weathered yet!). The box van is standing outside the Taffson Evans engineering factory: A small Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0ST, on hire to Cuthbertson's Chocolates, emerges from the factory: Some empty box vans have been left outside Taffson's for collection: The area in front of the brick office will be tidied up and the gap beneath the door dealt with: The Hudswell Clarke has come as far as it (legally) can... The board was then turned around, enabling easier photography of the work already done: 27 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 2 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2 Got the signal box out to fit fencing panels next to it: 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted September 2 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2 May I ask the source of the signal cabin Captain? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 2 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2 25 minutes ago, Gilbert said: May I ask the source of the signal cabin Captain? It's a bit of a mixture, Chris, but essentially a modified Ratio kit, with Churchward windows and a scratchbuilt interior. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted September 2 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2 1 minute ago, Captain Kernow said: It's a bit of a mixture, Chris, but essentially a modified Ratio kit, with Churchward windows and a scratchbuilt interior. Thanks - I assumed it was some sort of hybrid but with etched windows - which I did think might be Churchward - certainly looks the part...and your handrails are very nicely done as well... Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 3 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 3 15 hours ago, Gilbert said: Thanks - I assumed it was some sort of hybrid but with etched windows - which I did think might be Churchward - certainly looks the part...and your handrails are very nicely done as well... Chris Thanks Chris. I did do a couple of blog entries on it on RMWeb a few years ago, but the photos have probably disappeared now. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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