A combination of posts...still learning this craft of blogging!!!!!!

Seems I still have a lot to learn about this blogging lark. Have been creating "PAGES" and NOT posts.
Hopefully I have worked it out, so now to the catchup.


Been working on the roadway to the station a bit more. It seems that 47mm does NOT equal 55mm. Absolutely no idea where I got 47mm for the platform width, given that I have it written down on the drawings that it is 55mm.
Ah well, a bit of cut and add....situation sorted.

I have just finished painting the Station building. No grouting colour has been added yet and I hope that when it is it will tone down the orange of the brickwork a bit more, otherwise I will have to repaint the brick quoins.
The colour of the stonework looks better than what I have done on the Goods shed, so the Goods shed will have to be darkened!
Just add it to the list of things to do.

I have missed putting in the pic so will show it later, of the station building painted.
Started the task of cutting individual slates, and have a nice collection, as can be seen below:

I started to put them on....what a pain/eyesore. Not sure how the pros do it but apart from driving me batty, it looked terrible. I can only think that I wasn't allowing enough gap between them. Some were OK but quite a few virtually  joined as one with the Limonene.

Start again.
Did it in strips and has worked very well. Unfortunately I haven't taken a pic as yet of the slates in place on that roof.

Above is the carriage roof upside down. I had marked and grooved the underside of the shed roof a while back. The underside of the roof boards were laid at an angle.

At the moment this is as far as it is going to get until I can resort the  steel, in this case the brass trusses that support the roof. I did use a jig to help locate them but with the movement of the styrenne, it hasn't been as good as it could have been so I have to realign a few of them, so that I can solder in the lengthwise ones and then the cross bearing ones.

Last but not least is a pic of the roof in place on the station building. Never mind the sanding block that is representing the platforn there.  :)

Well that is the combined update, and I shall keep at it.

A Little Update

This is just a basic update to let one and know I am still working on the layout.
At the moment there is more than one thing on the go.
Started to paint the platform faces, the goods siding one can be seen in one of the pics below. Assembled the Station building, so that I could complete some of the platform and road foundations, and have continued on with this foundation work. (Painting plaform faces is a loooong and tedious job)

In this overall shot you can see the station and Goods Shed in place.

Just behind the station is a sheet of card which is the base sheet for the roadway. further layers will help form the fall of the road to the gutter at the front of the station.

I'm using mdf for the main grid work to support the roads and paths. The card at different thicknesses with help form the contours as required.

In this image the painted section (not completed) of the back of the station platform can be seen as well as the formwork for the loading bank and roadway accessing Tuckers Maltsters.

All the formwork, for example the loading bank are seperate pieces at the moment, so that they are easy to handle to work on. The section of roadway with the card on it, is also seperate to the section around the station building which is seperate again to the platform.

Once I am at the final stages it can all be assembled together and glued.

Until the next update!