RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 27, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2012 Ah! That does look easy to pull apart. As you say its now finding suitable passengers with very short legs that dont cost more than the coach did!! Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Unpainted figures looks like it includes a few that are legless http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/590-79007 or these http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/590-79084 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 a pair of toe-nail clippers can make short work of plastic legs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) So the Paxton bus was taken apart, simple screws from the bottom, it has been weathered and people added. I had a bag of unpainted figures so attacked them with a simple coating of paint, nothing to complicated simple monocolor. Then off came their legs and in they went, happily heading to London, apparently. A light dusting of dirt was applied and then some darker colour around the tyres and the back of the bus. Having looked at pictures these buses seem to stay very white, so i tryed to add just a hint of dirt. sitting on the workbech green, red and yellow seem to be a popular colour then a head on shot showing the driver Stephen Edited June 4, 2012 by Gloucester Road 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Looks great !! nice job on the weathering. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 nice, passengers in buses and carriages are nearly always overlooked. looks so much better when they are included. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 Sir Rowland Hill, 47474, was taken out of service for a while as it went through the paint shop. It has had an application of various Tamiya weathering powders added to it. Pretty pleased with how it turned out. Stephen 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
porkie Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Hi Stephen, The layouts come on really well since my last visit, Love the weathered 47 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Very nice. Are the powders easy to use? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I believe you just rub the powders on with a cotton bud or a brush if your wife can apply make-up 1950's powder style then you might find she takes to it better than yourself! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted April 8, 2012 Author Share Posted April 8, 2012 Very nice. Are the powders easy to use? They are very easy to use. In the container is an application brush/sponge and you put some on and dab it onto the model. I use a paint brush and just apply (brush it) where needed, you can also wet the brush and paint the powder on. It does tend to blow around so make sure your work area is covered. As Black Sheep says it is very much like makeup powder, little powder case and applicator. But you feel manly because you bought it in a hobby shop! Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Cheers guys, may have to give it a try. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 Though there has been no update recently it has not been quite on Gloucester Road. Currently working on several scalescenes kits; small corner shops, small terraced houses, roads and modern industrial building. Pictures will follow soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted April 28, 2012 Author Share Posted April 28, 2012 So I'm in the process of making up the Modern Industrial building T009, the walls are done and under weights for the night. Here is a mock up square with a roof on. At the same time a street scene using roads, corner shops and small terraced houses is being planned out. It is being done in much the same way that my earlier scene was done, mentioned earlier in the thread. Currently the bases and some paving has been clued down, roads and such are just there for planning. Closest to the camera will be a corner butcher and a shop, then the big open area will be an area that will have the station entrance that is on the upper level and some general seating and trees. Then you can see the base area for some houses or more shops. The walls for these structures are also under weights for the night. This is what the guest bed looks like with stacks of paper, arranged for each kit and ease of finding pieces. Hopefully no visiters as i have quite a system going and would not like to pick up the pieces. Off to more cutting and pasting. Stephen 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 28, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 28, 2012 Nice to see the spare rooms put to good use!! Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 (edited) Cold and rainy day here in New Hampshire, kids are both in school Mrs out shopping what would you do. I boiled the pot, made some tea crabbed a box of Digestive Bisquits, put a beer in the fridge for later, turned on Pink Floyd and shut myself in the train room. My main focus was on the Modern Industrial Building kit, with fits of cutting out some more windows on the Small Terreced Houses. So here we are at 830 this morning; piles of walls, roofs and frames. The grey frame is one of four to go inside the industrial building and the blue walls go to this kit too, all of the other pices go to the asembly line that is the terraced housing and shops. Here is a wall and frame holding each other up, ive decided i am going to make the crane so you can seen one of the column front for the crane here (the yellow bit) It was taking me about 30 minutes per frame, so here we are two hours later. One side of the frames have been glued and the back wall is resting in place. I needed to feel like something was being accomplished at this point so had a good look at how this was coming together while sipping tea and eating a snack. After a breather we attacked the front and side wall by installing two doors and a loading dock. Then the lower and upper wall corner pieces were added and the wall capping layer added. A base layer was then added to bring the whole thing up to road level. Once this was done some temporary scenic material in the form of fencing and ground scatter was added to see what it would look like when beded in. This will need to be redone at a later point.; at this point im happy with how its going and am itching to finish. Still need to finish off the office that goes inside, the internal grane and the roof. Now to go and find that beer. Stephen Edited May 2, 2012 by Gloucester Road 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted May 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2012 I like the use of the mobile crane to give you a hand with assembly!! Looking very good. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 Finished off Modern Industrial Building T009. This goes together nicely and with the ability to put the doors anywhere you want can be suited to most locals. The crane inside has been made, but my roof is very snug, ie wont come off easily, so roof MKII is in the works because the crane is cool. Still needs to be bedded in, fencing (on order) and some people added and this will make a nice cameo scene. Very happy with it. Stephen 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Very nice Stephen, it looks a fair size even for N scale. Regards Scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
millerhillboy Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 super work, really like the attention to details with all the signage around the doors etc etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 So its been a month since any real progress has been made on Gloucester Road; I seem to have had a modelling block. It's been mentioned elsewhere that one goes through this and Ive even had it before, but sitting down and doing modelling seems a bit of a chore at the moment. I have plenty of plans and things that need doing just can't get myself to do it. I have been playing er operating (?) the layout and really enjoy it, which is good. Just cant find the desire to make anything. One problem is that the weather for the past month has been brilliant; which means lots of cycling. Close on 200 miles last month. Enough grumbling. Have done some more work on the front of the shops/houses Stephen 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 So its been awhile since any modelling has taken place here in NH, between bike riding and the kids being home for summer holidays days are pretty busy. So today decided to take out the glue, hairspray, static grass and had at it for a few hours. I started to attack the area behind the station. I used my usual method of making grass sheets and then blending them into the area . The area done so far comes up to the front of the last wagon. Then had a mess around with a temporay background, it doesnt look half bad. Very promising when I get around to doing it properly Might do some more tomorrow. Stephen 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted July 31, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2012 I love the backscene - very dramatic! Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 (edited) So thats where we are. So summer holdiday have come to an end and both boys were bundled onto the bus and sent off to school so with that there should be more time to get some modelling in. There has been a flurry of grass planting and messing around with backscenes behind the upper level country station. All the grass has been put down and most off the detailing has been done. Static grass was done with my technique of doing the grass off the layout and making a matt that is then trimmed into postion; it has been covered before but here is a quick recap. Step 1 is to make a template of the area to be covered and transfer this onto some sort of film I use clear sandwhich bags. Here is the area to be covered Step 2 is to apply the glue onto the sandwhich bag in the shape of the area, then apply grass and hairspray as per the usual method of applying static grass Step 3 is to let the glue dry for several hours. Step 4 once glue is dry you can simply peal the grass mats off! So with grass down it was trimmed and out into place and blended in with the grass around it. Once grass was down a path was added for the farmer and to access the mobile phone tower, sheep were added , tress and some other bits and pieces here is an overhead photo looking accross the station The backscene has been changed again as i am still messing around with what i like. This one is just a cloudy sky, not sure how i feel about it. Next on the list is to finish off the mobile phone tower and get that done. Thanks for reading Stephen Edited August 29, 2012 by Gloucester Road 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 So its a US prototype, but the mobile phone tower is complete. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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