Lonsdaler wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 6:41 pm
Those books are superlative. You will have fun getting folks to look through the windows, and it will be worth their while
TBH Ge-Rik, you were at least one of the people guilty of inspiring me to do this and many other things (big admirer over here)
haha tell me about it, I stuck the buildings outside to see what they would like like. I'll tell you all something - my knees are starting to not be what they used to.
this is probably going to be a long, picture heavy post as a lot has been done and being a former actor - I'm one to show off.
Also before I start, I'm going to prove Peter right what what he said about interiors. I've made this basic interior for the Station Master's house. The original intention was to have a down stairs and upstair built with some details, however, I simply couldn't be bothered. I did still want to do something but the more I thought about it the less inclined I was to do an upstairs. To have lights on in all rooms at night would leave any dad shaken at the prospective leech bill so I've opted to just light up the downstairs and an exterior lamp. I have made an interior with a hair and a simple fire place as to disguise it father I've added netting. The one problem with netting is- it's opaque, very opaque so now all this work seems to have come to nought. But, when the light is on you can just make out some semblance of life which is the main intention.
The light itself is just a pound shop flickering candle which I won't be instead, like the signal box but this and the station itself, along with all the other lights will be solar powered.
The picture is of my mum and son when we first took him to the beach, which adds some hidden poignancy.
The station interior itself is now fully finished, I've added one of my favourite pictures of Robin and my now currently unnamed Lady Anne along with some posters of the local area and a chalkboard timetable. I'm assuming the Station Master was a former doctor given the handwriting.
After about four years of being packed, unpacked and left in a shed. A fair few of the bits had broken, come loose and just got lost into the vortex of time.
There's a couple of things that will need to be worked on but I've started on the fire buckets. one of the supports went missing, was found again then after an incident in the garden shed disappeared again. This time forever. So I've crafted a new one from some scrap plasticard. I also got rid of the original sand which was just painted salt and didn't have the desired effect and after a repaint is looking fresh and new again.
One issue of my own doing was after a trip to hobby craft yesterday picked up the wrong b****y paint. Under the impression that I was after light blue, I picked up Revell "Light Blue'. It turned dup the shade of light blue I had used 4 years ago, wa sin fact, Light Green. I had wondered why the station lights came out a little too light when I did them but just assumed it was cos I had add a little water to reactivate the paint...hooo hum.
More positively I updated my original buffer stop with an extra plank and made an new one using spares and scraps of wood. This style of frontier modelling is right up my ally - especially as I can barely afford anything after receiving a £75 bill from Virgin possibly as a result of live streaming the Ffestiniog Railway whilst bored at work.
All in all some very productive couple of days which may see the station entering it's last few stages of completion in the next few days/weeks.
Here's the shape of things to come, or at least should show the shape of things to come if it wasn't for the station mouser.
In other news, after a 8 year hiatus I've rejoined the 16mm Association and pretty much at the right time. After receiving the obligatory parcel along some some back issues of 16MT I came across one of Nick Woods superlative builds. A TPO for his line...as if I needed another thing to inspire me.
