Modelling activities have slowed to a crawl recently, but tonight I mocked-up the #Cadburys warehouse. This was fun - slicing up, folding and stapling a cereal packet!
All structures for this layout will be mundane, single story warehouses and industrial units.
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And they're done. NCB 16t Steel & Wooden bodied Hoppers complete. Handrails all made with supports. Steps added as these had one at each corner, rather than the usual non brake lever end.
The new D6300 looks right at home on the layout. Just trying it out to check it actually runs. Needs some fettling of the CVs, but that will have to wait.
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I got the backdrop done yesterday for my UK micro layout. Threatening clouds have appeared - no “Mr Blue Sky” for this layout!
Mounting it was a right sod. I chose a more expensive self-adhesive plastic film product, which is quite robust and forgiving. But once you have started sticking it to the layout there’s no turning back. There are some horrible mis-alignments, but most of them I can disguise in some way with scenery and some selective camera angles 😃
This arrived today for my UK OO scale micro-layout - an Oxford Diecast Mk 1 Ford Transit. It’s quite a nice model and the D reg. plates make it a 1966 build.
I understand Transits were quite something when they were first introduced - and allegedly a favourite of criminals, as they handed better than many cars of their day!
I didn’t expect to find this in TK MAXX - £2.99 for a 500g bar of DAS modelling clay. I’ll be using this for my UK micro-layout. 👍
Steel bodied NCB 16t Hopper lettered up.
Wooden bodied NCB 16t Hopper lettered up.
Wooden and Steel bodied NCB 16t Hoppers complete and bodies mated to chassis. Just handrails and transfers to complete.
Tonight I’ve moved on from mulled wine to something a bit stronger! 😃
Ballasting has started - I haven’t done this for ages and the “fun” hasn’t diminished 😞
But on the +ve side I can now declare that work on the scenery has started 👍
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Label EVERYTHING! 🙂
I may replace these with something snazzier in the future, but for now, I know what the switches do (and so will others if they try to operate the layout).
This particular switch is to select where the track feed comes from - either remotely (when this layout is rigged-up to my other one), or locally, when my Digitrax base unit is actually mounted on the layout.
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The first siding glued-down. The other two will have to wait until the backdrop is in place.
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Rail painting is now finished, so I took the 08 for a spin to see if it still worked. After some scrubbing and scraping I got nice smooth running. Next step is to glue the track down.
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More rusty rail painting today.
Coffee, tasty treats and some Fat Boy Slim tunes helped ease things along. I even managed to keep the paint off the new Christmas jumper!
I’m getting there - mostly touching-up to do and then on to ballasting.
3D printed nuts and bolts being fitted to the hopper body. These come in sheet form 0.8 to 1.4 mm heads on one side, nuts and thread on the other. Available from Meng, sheet SPS-007
Scalpel off and dip in expoxy/superglue and place. Just like that.
NCB 16t wooden hopper body complete bar lower section and doors. All steel angle plating and capping represented by 0.25mm strip and L angle profiles. Awaiting 3d printed nut heads to finish the exterior detail.
That's the all steel 16t NCB Hopper complete and primed. This is a great wagon to build from sheet plasticard, these wagons had various self contained buffers, so a mix can be modelled.
Today I got stuck right in to painting the rails with Rail Match Dark Rust.
It’s slow-going but makes for a big improvement.
Looking at the photos I’ll need to do some touching-up. It’s very difficult to tell the areas I’ve missed, from the areas of paint that catch the light!
This will take a while but worth the effort I think.
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Experimenting with OO scale ballast today. This is Woodland Scenics' light grey fine ballast.
The colour is what I want and in terms of size, all the trackage is for sidings, so I think this is about right. But i'll sleep on it before committing to laying the stuff down!
A bit of "lash it together improv" to make the air brush easier to use!
