Build of a layout based on Callington

Looks the business to me Gary, well done indeed.

[user=753]Phil.c[/user] wrote:

So what's holding you up with the rest of it :lol:

Nice job ;-)

Phil

Hopefully today I will have the posts on and be able to pick up some paint. I've got Monday off work as well, which will help with the build.

Deciding between SR green and a tan/buff colour ?? :hmm Although green posts with a tan/buff truss wouldn't look too bad. I don't have a lot of coloured pics of the original building, but if I'm right it had chocolate brown on the lower 4'-5' of the posts and buff above, almost GWR colours…. gulp ! Then again, it's my railway. How do you think purple and yellow would look… :shock:… just joking ! Thanks for all the comments chaps !

Cheers, Gary.

Today I decided to glue the posts to the canopy frame. One thing that bugged me was, how am I going to support the posts, whilst gluing the frame on top, one side at a time ?? Considering the posts are only 3.2mm square and not all that rigid….

The answer was Lego and a few rubber bands !



above. Bit of a techni-colour hotch pot, but it works !

below. The overall roof frame in place with a card mock-up station building in place.





above. Now use your imagination… The structure is clad in timber and iron, the glazing is firmly fixed, all painted and fences etc installed, the track and 6' is ballasted… and there is no bottle of glue in the background…

Cheers, Gary.

I doubt I have either the skill or the patience Gary but I may "borrow" some of your ideas ………………:roll::roll:

It really does look excellent. :thumbs

[user=878]Gary[/user] wrote:

Now use your imagination… The structure is clad in timber and iron, the glazing is firmly fixed, all painted and fences etc installed, the track and 6' is ballasted… and there is no bottle of glue in the background…

Cheers, Gary.

Nice work Gary. Who's Lego is it ? Yours ?

Never mind the imagination though. Let's see it happen !! :pedal

Looks good to me, although the colours bricks in the first picture look a little out of scale :lol:

Phil

Looking better every day Gary.I think you're teasing us all a bit now.Can't you take a week off work to finish it.:pathead

G'day all,

Peter, I can tell you at times it felt as if I had to dig deep into that barrel of patience ! :twisted:

Trevor, Lego, what a great medium for kids learning and skill, and yes I enjoy playing Lego with my boys. In a matter of fact, I still have a bag full of it that is over 35 years old ! Now my boys play with it as well as there newer bricks seen above. :mrgreen:

Phil, just a little bit of colour. As they say Southern for Colour, opps Sunshine… :lol:

Alan, I have a few more (5) days off soon ! So hopefully by then a lot more will have been done. :thumbs

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of the rough dimensions for a BR precast concrete goods store ??:hmm

Cheers, Gary.

Not a lot has been done on the overall roof/canopy/train shed. I have been waiting on a delivery of corrugated card from South Oz. Seems to be the usual case of Aust Post being effecient as always !

So, to calm my boredom, I got stuck into the station building itself. As can be seen in one of the above pics, I made up a card mock-up of the building to see how it would sit. This was drawn up to scale from plans and the usual thing happens, the doorways and windows don't line up with the posts on the canopy ! Back to measuring up and re-drawing the plans, I got it right.

As with the goods shed I built, I like to use commercially available windows (Tichy Train Group), but I don't have the exact windows as used on the original building, so a little poetic license can be used. The building was made up of 20 thou, 30 thou and 40 thou styrene sheet. Got to love styrene !

First up, cut out front wall, window & door openings. Also, the lower stone edge has been shaved and added



v A shelf has been added. This acts as a square/corner brace for the side wall. Further on I decided not to go with a full interior as it wont be seen from under the canopy.



v Test fitting within the posts of the canopy.



Making the doors. I decided to make my own as Tichy doors are a little undersize for OO. The back of the door is 30 thou styrene, whilst the raised panels are 20 thou.



v Horizontal panels going in. These are cut oversize and will be trimmed down when the side vertical panels go on.



v Vertical panels fitted. The horizontal panels were shortened to 6mm. Once all glue was dry, a light sanding was needed to smooth the paneling out. The side panels are oversized, but will be hidden behind the door frames. This creates a larger fixing area. A groove has been scored down the centre ?? :shock: This will definately require a little more filing !



Doors test fit. Windows fitted, but not glued in, both held in with masking tape. Starting to look like a building now ! As can be seen, the double window is not accurate as the original does not have the large vertical centre. The smaller windows has had the vertical centre glazing bars removed. Maybe I should do the same with the double window, just to keep continuity.



v Internal walls going in. Some tricky carpentry skills required as this wall need fitting around the store room door and to reach where the skillion roof (above store room) matches the main building.



v Pic of the store room roof former from the rear.



v Fitting all roof formers. These are located where the internal walls would be. The steps have been blackened to hide the bracing styrene, which can be seen above, fixed to the internal wall. This way, once the doors are in, it should look like the doors are raised slightly over the floor boards.



v The back wall and roof piece fitted. The roof formers/walls are extended so that the building sits on the edge of the platform and firmly on the basebaord.  Now, just waiting on the delivery of corrugated card !



The building will be covered in corrugated card, painted, windows and doors installed. Then, it will be fitted to the canopy.

As I said earlier, you gotta love styrene !

Cheers, Gary.





 

… You certainly do… Nice doors and a nice little project.

Cheers

Marty

Well, Murphy's Law has struck ! Back to work tomorrow after 5 days off and at 4.15pm today, the corrugated card turns up in the mail… Atleast it will keep me busy for the next few (quite a few) evenings, covering the canopy and station building !



Although through the plastic it doesn't look corrugated, I can assure you it is. This is the same corrugated card I used on the Goods Shed in a previous post, http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=11066&forum_id=14

Cheers, Gary.

That's always the case Gary - I suspect they had someone watching you to make sure it arrived just after your leave !!!!

As Marty said, the station building is a great looking project.  :thumbs

Throughout the last week, work was almost at a stand still regarding the station building/canopy. I really wanted to clad both the canopy and station roof with the corrugated card, but I'd rather spend a few solid hours on it rather than a couple of hours here and there throughout the week nights.

I decided I wasn't happy with the double doors I made as there were too many joins in the styrene between the panels, so I decided to make some more. This time I used even thinner styrene sheet (10 thou) and cut out the 2 rectangles panels for the four individual doors.

Below is a comparison and yes, they do look a little grotty as the glue needs a little cleaning up around the panel edges with a hobby knife. The new doors are the top two. Once cleaned up and painted they should look better than the bootom two. 



Another little project I undertook during the week nights was to construct one of the two Signal Boxes for Kelly Bray. I obtained some diagrams from a member of another forum, that he had used on his own layout. Yes I had quite a few pics, but unfortunately nothing as much as a close-up of the signal boxes !

The box was constructed with styrene (Evergreen sheet and clapboard), Tichy Train Group & Ratio windows, door from TTG as well, Broad Gauge Bodies corrugated card and Scalescenes brick paper.

The front window is two Ratio signal box windows (139), with one outside frame filed thin on each, so that they could be joined together. This way they look like one 16 pane window, rather than two 8 pane windows. The side windows are not 100% correct, but near enough. The clapboard (weatherboard) is scale 6", so that is as correct to the prototype. Corrugated iron (card) is actually HO scale, but it looks alright. The piers are styrene wrapped in Scalescenes brown brick. The name on the board was printed on the PC and glued to a framed and blackened styrene backboard. The windows still need glazing and I'll use Testors Clear Cement and Window Maker to fill the panes in.

Altogether, I'm happy with the final outcome, although close-up pics can be cruel as the paint doesn't look that bad from normal viewing distance !






Cheers, Gary.

That's a real little gem Gary. :thumbs:thumbs:thumbs:thumbs

You must be proud of it.

Is the panelling styrene as well Gary?.

Hi Peter and Alan,

Thanks Peter, I do like the little building. As you know the smaller the building, the more difficult it gets. I don't know how the N gauge fraternity here does it !

Alan, if you mean the panelling on the doors yes, it is styrene. If you mean the signal box, the clapboard panelling is Evergreen styrene. What I didn't say previously, was that the vents below the roof line are actually HO scale window shutters, cut and shut, to represent vents. Near enough I say ! The external framing on the building corners and around the windows, apart from the lower sills are all North Eastern Lumber (wood).  Majority of North Eastern products are made for the US HO scale market, but do just as well on OO. I have many packets of this great modelling medium as well as Evergreen styrene sheet, strips, angle, I beams, H beams etc and I don't mind mixing them up a bit either.

Cheers, Gary.

Do you stick the wood to the styrene with superglue Gary ?  I've always found it difficult to glue the two together but I must admit, I don't use much superglue.  Whenever I open superglue, most of it ends up going hard in the tube and it costs a fortune ………:roll::roll:

I actually use 'Revell Contacta Professional'. The modelling glue in the blue and yellow bottle, with needle tip. Over the years I have found that if you give the wood a wipe with the glue and allow it to dry, a second coat will adhere it to plastic. Although I guess I was lucky this time as I didn't give the wood a pre-coating.

Cheers, Gary.

That's a tip worth trying Gary. :thumbs

Apparently some people use plain PVA to glue all kinds of material including Resin to Resin. The technique is to coat both pieces with a thin layer of PVA and allow to dry then one thin layer to one piece and stick them together.






I haven't tried it myself yet though.






Simon