RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2013 And to 4mm scale thats 5.28 metres, lots of rail and wires Not to mention Indomitable Carpentry! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Great photo's I am glad it all went well for you. I would of loved to of been able to see it in the flesh. Now all I need to do is work out if I can get a scale 1/4 mile or so of 7mm in or house, garrden, street!!! This layout has been very inspirational not only in quality but in the manner it has been constructed. Keep up the good work. I hope you will be exhibiting it somewhere on our next visit to the UK. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2013 Not to mention Indomitable Carpentry! I see what you did there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Old Gringo Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2013 Can someone post a couple of photographs in this thread of Stu's model of W.E. Millward's Ltd. - in position on the layout, please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2013 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2013 Love that 1st photo !! I was in two minds about posting that one as there isn't much going on! seems I was wrong! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2013 And to 4mm scale thats 5.28 metres, lots of rail and wires And lots and lots of: Bottles of PVA Sheets of polystyene foam Tubs of lightweight filler Rolls of scrim Bags and bags of green stuff and Cans of spray glue (Plus lots of screws to stick through the boards - sorry Geoff) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2013 Here's parts of it from me - thought I'd taken one like Paul's but apparently not: 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2013 That's a sawn off little runt of a water tower. If you want something substantial you need to be looking at Goole Water Tower: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/456235 160 ft high, holds 750,000 gallons and is the biggest in the UK. Its also situated next to a railway yard. Good grief man, that's a little bigger than I had in mind! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2013 Nope, I didn't see one either Stu - must have been too subtle! Well here's a side shot of the tunnel A partial of the canal bridge And a distant view of the canal bridge area Could of sworn I took others but apparently not. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2013 Thought I'd done this last night, but John has just highlighted that I obviously haven't (or didn't press the post button!) He's a few of Jason's building in situ. Over the next few shows we'll be putting in the approach track, filling it with junk and growing some ivy / creepers over the rear. The site will look a whole lot more unloved and representative of the Black Country's forgotten pre-industrial past! Thanks for your help Jason and the two days driving over the weekend at Donny. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mark Forrest Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2013 You're just trying to get me in trouble with the rolling stock experts with all these photos of Falcon! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2013 Good grief man, that's a little bigger than I had in mind! That's what the last girl said! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2013 That's what the last girl said! And then you woke up! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 That's excellent!! Thanks Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Old Gringo Posted February 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2013 Step by Step Project No.2 – THE TUNNEL MOUTH The history behind the model: The Grand Junction Railway arrived in the Black Country in 1837. The Black Country Blues diorama assumes that our section of route was built soon after that date. On the layout, the line emerges from a tunnel, before crossing a river on a five-arch viaduct and then continues on a substantial embankment, running alongside a short flight of locks on a canal branch. The tunnel therefore is the first engineering feature on the left –hand side of the layout and is followed by a deep cutting. We have assumed that the immediate approach to the tunnel required dwarf retaining walls to be built, which would have avoided moving lots more material from the cutting, with picks, shovels and wheelbarrows. A step by step account of constructing this feature follows. Using existing drawings of similar structures built on the London & Birmingham Railway and on site measurements from the top of Summit Tunnel, I produced a drawing for the tunnel portal. (A Photograph of this plan appeared in the November edition of BRM). 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted February 13, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2013 Quite rare to see that kind of ramshackle, un-colour coordinated and very everyday type of structure on a layout. Which is what makes it look real. Thanks for the inspiration. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 I've been looking at a few BC photos in Flikr and have noticed the frequent appearance of the Telephone Box. Would one look out of place between the food van and Stubby's masterpiece? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PaternosterRow Posted February 13, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 13, 2013 Hi Arthur, Stunning work! That last 'head on' photo is just brilliant - it looks so real. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
28XX Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Just an impression, not a criticism, I think the trackwork is too good. My memory of non-passenger lines in the era was of rotted sleepers, dropped joints with clay slurry pumping to the surface, scars from past derailments, missing keys, no doubt all this is already on your to-do list. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted February 13, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) I believe a small passage will appear between Millwards and Flavio's yard & wall, which will replace the current scene of the Chip van, but a phone box (with accompanying ivy-clad telegraph pole) would be a nice addition in the area. Edited February 13, 2013 by Stubby47 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Jason T Posted February 13, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 13, 2013 It was an absolute pleasure to drive BCB over the weekend, as well as staying over and having a few too many beers / Southern comfort ( ). Seeing the layout in the flesh after being (an albeit small) part of it was fantastic; the last time something I modelled that appeared on a layout was on Kendal MRC's Maidenhaste layout nearly 30 years ago, and that was a tiny patch of flock that I glued down with a splodge of lichen in the middle ! Hopefully I'll make Ally Pally and see the shed in it's advanced state. I forgot to mention and it's probably not possible now but when I had finished the holes in the roof and was trying to capture a photo of it using my small lamp to avoid the flash, the rafters cast a fantastic shadow onto the floor of the cart section. I never did manage to catch a photo of it like that though. Out of interest, what's left on the list to build? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted February 13, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2013 "Out of interest, what's left on the list to build?" Good question !!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 13, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 13, 2013 "Out of interest, what's left on the list to build?" Good question !!! Not another toilet! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 13, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2013 Not another toilet! Ah, the well-known French city - Toulouse! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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