brightspark Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 The Ewer Street buildings were on show on the Bankside display Scaleforum over weekend. They have certainly captured the atmosphere of the area and attracted many favourable comments. Andy 11 2 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted September 30, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 30, 2022 No this isn't a story about the Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe it's about an old chipboard wardrobe door that's being repurposed as a platform and road. It will provide the base level for this and will covered and edged. Some pictures of progress. All the best Adrian. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 30, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 30, 2022 A nice bit of recycling. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Also the best thing to do with a chipboard wardrobe, IMHO. Although if cut into narrow strips you can make decent shelving out of them. Our wardrobes are old solid ones and I'm pretty confident that I would be in trouble if I sawed them up. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted September 30, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Also the best thing to do with a chipboard wardrobe, IMHO. Although if cut into narrow strips you can make decent shelving out of them. Our wardrobes are old solid ones and I'm pretty confident that I would be in trouble if I sawed them up. I would raise your "pretty confident" to a "highly likely". 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 I suspect that all privileges would be revoked for quite some time. Besides, layout boards of 1930s bird's eye maple might be considered somewhat ostentatious. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 I am, however, on the lookout for some old wardrobe panels because that contiboard is very handy for making cassettes and the bases onto which they slide. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted October 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2022 Fantastic use of an old bit of furniture. Can I offer some advice about edging up chip board. Use nothing else other that two coats of contact adhesive on both surfaces and rub the two together with the back of a cabinet hammer or the rounded corner of a section of hard wood. You can file away all the overlap a few hours later. Good luck, Shaun. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted December 13, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 13, 2022 Wishing you all a Happy Christmas.. I have asked Father Christmas if when he is on his rounds around the world, could he please keep a lookout for our missing images, as I am really missing them now. All the best Adrian. 21 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted December 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2022 47 minutes ago, westerhamstation said: Wishing you all a Happy Christmas.. I have asked Father Christmas if when he is on his rounds around the world, could he please keep a lookout for our missing images, as I am really missing them now. All the best Adrian. Adrian, This is so unfair. I have not had time to model, let alone thinl about Christmas messages! 😉 Have a good Christmas and I look forward to seeing more of your excellent modelling next year. All the best to Mrs Westerham and doggie Westerham. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrkirtley800 Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 And best wishes to you, Adrian. I hope we will see plenty of your delightful modelling in 2023. Derek 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Happy Christmas to you too, I'll also be looking forward to seeing more of the Westerham saga in the new year. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nevermakeit Posted December 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 14, 2022 Yes, wishing you a very happy Christmas, and looking forward to seeing more of Westerham in the new year 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 As all of the above, wishing you and your family all the very best for Christmas, Adrian. May Father Christmas bring you everything you ask for.🥳 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you and your's Hopefully followed by a much improved and HAPPY NEW YEAR 😭 😥 😧 😃 🥳 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 A very Merry Christmas Adrian and a Happy New Year o you and your family 😃 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted January 11, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2023 After quite some time from posting about starting the platform build I have made a bit of progress, firstly I have decided to call the new station Weald junction which is situated somewhere south of Maidstone towards the Horsmenden area, for me it will serve two purposes it still connects Westerham to Brasted without it impinging on either station as it is the other side of the partition in the garage and trains from either station can just run through the junction, or stop and do a bit of shunting as required. secondly it gives me a chance to build a few typical Kent structures one being a Oast house which will allow a hop pickers special to be used, and it can be used on its own for a bit of shunting using Westerham as a sort of fiddle yard as required. Some pictures to show progress so far. All the best Adrian. Platform surface is 400 grit wet and dry 32 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 On 19/08/2022 at 18:19, MrWolf said: Congratulations on a particularly neat and convincing bit of model civil engineering. The muted colours in the final picture are very effective. As for the buses, they must be on strike, it's been far too hot for air strikes. Helmut and his chums discovered that what works well in India with trains does not work so well when attempted with a plane. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) It's perfectly suited as a sun lounger though, plus you don't need to get up at 5am to "reserve" it, as it's pretty obvious who owns it! Edited January 11, 2023 by MrWolf Stupid autocorrect 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishplate Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 That is looking great @westerhamstation. When I scrolled down your last pictures, they look so much like Headcorn and the junction there. Screams "this is Kent" to me. Looking forward to seeing more. 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Fishplate said: That is looking great @westerhamstation. When I scrolled down your last pictures, they look so much like Headcorn and the junction there. Screams "this is Kent" to me. Looking forward to seeing more. It does indeed, everything about it gives a real sense of place, the mock ups of the buildings are an excellent aid to visualising the finished results. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted January 13, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2023 (edited) Hi all, and thanks for the feedback it all helps to motivate me and to know that it is recognisable as somewhere in Kent. All the best Adrian. Edited January 13, 2023 by westerhamstation 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2023 Oasts, round or rectangular, need cowls on the top of the roof. These days most cosmetic ones are fibre-glass, I think! Hop-pickers need accommodation. Hoppers' huts were cheap and nasty 'dwellings' in rows, typically in a field near the bines. Obviously occupied but for a handful of weeks per annum, they lacked light, heating, drainage or running water. Most such structures have long been rased. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted January 14, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) A description of oast houses and their construction. https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Oast-Houses https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hop-pickers-kent-old-photos/ A nice little snippet of hop picking All the best and enjoy your beer Adrian 12 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Oasts, round or rectangular, need cowls on the top of the roof. These days most cosmetic ones are fibre-glass, I think! Hop-pickers need accommodation. Hoppers' huts were cheap and nasty 'dwellings' in rows, typically in a field near the bines. Obviously occupied but for a handful of weeks per annum, they lacked light, heating, drainage or running water. Most such structures have long been rased. Edited January 14, 2023 by westerhamstation additional link added 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post westerhamstation Posted January 14, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) For those of you that are unfamiliar with oast houses and hop picking I have some pictures of the Oast houses to show you, these will help me in the construction of them you will notice that they are all different but all serve the same function that is drying the picked hops. If you look at the above post you will find a short youtube video and some other links which explain the whole process far better than I can. All the best Adrian. Horsmonden station with Oast house in background Present day same view Oast house construction Round and square Oasts Edited January 14, 2023 by westerhamstation 17 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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