Build of a layout based on Callington

Just an update on the station overall roof or is it a train shed or just a station canopy…?

Been not so busy lately but have been getting back into it again over the last few days. Some back wall framing, end wall and frame and door ways to access the small loading dock and station entrance has been created. The main structure has also been primed and a top coat or two has been applied, prior to fixing the corrugated iron sheeting (which isn't done just yet !).



^ The overall roof painted. Painting had to be completed on the frame before installing the glazing and corrugated iron on the roof and corrugated iron on the back wall. It would have been a nightmare trying to airbrush only from the bottom up.




^ Close up of some of the visible framing on the back wall and the end wall. Again, windows are from the Tichy Train Group box. The frames are made of 1.5 x 1.0mm and 1.0 x 0.75mm styrene. The end wall is a piece of weatherboard (clapboard) as used on the signal box mentioned previously.

Photos can be cruel ! I just noticed the crooked framing bar above the window, which can be re-glued when I attach the corrugated iron. But how big does that hair look ? This will be plucked out in good time !




^ The framing around the loading/small goods dock and station entrance. Looks like a little cleaning up needs to be done in the corners of the frame. I must admit it is quite fiddly. The frames are made with 2.5 x 0.75, 1.5 x 1.0mm and 1.0 x 0.75mm styrene.

Cheers, Gary.

The station over-roof has now gained a back wall, roofing iron, gutters and down pipes (front), clear skylights etc. I wasn't exactly happy with my second attempt at making doors, so I went for the third attempt. How practise pays off. 3 times lucky I guess !







The guttering, down pipes, flashing, ridge capping still needs doing, as does the area below the building needs filling in (also the gap in the back wall just above the lean-to.

I have been working on assembling the smoke ducts for the roof top. This actually puzzled me for some time on how to build the vents, seen in pic below. This scan of a pic was courtesy of a chap in the UK and is only 1/8th of the pic. Sorry about the fuzziness.

 

The idea is to recreate these vents in styrene. After reading an article on RMweb, I built myself a simple jig out of card with the same pitch angle as the roof on Kelly Bray (30*).



This was built double ended so that I can put two vents together at once. Below shows a louvre being made up. The sides are scribed styrene. The lower sections of the scribed styrene have been cut at 30* and 16mm long, scale 4'. A small scrap piece of 30thou styrene (spacer) sits at the base, followed by a piece of 10thou styrene. The 30thou is set back atleast 2mm from the front edge, whereas the 10thou louvre piece is pushed right up against the flat verticle backing plate. Repeat this process, of 4 x spacers and 4 x louvres.





Two semi complete vents just about ready to be positioned on the roof. Each lourve is 17mm long with an overall length (outside to outside) of 20mm, a scale 5'. A small portion of the top will need filing down from front to back (about 10*), for the roof top (run-off).  I'm having second thoughts as there needs to be some outside framing for the roofing iron, which will hide the flat top of the scribed walls. More work to do now, another 14 vents in fact !

Cheers, Gary.

Now it's coming together, I like the trusses especially the shot looking up at them, but are they meant to be white? as it's going to be difficult to paint them if the roof is fixed in place.

 

Great idea with the jig ;-)

 

Phil

Hi Phil,

Although thety don't look painted, the trusses are actually cream in colour, the same as the rest of the building. I had to paint (airbrush) all the framing prior to sheeting and fixing skylights. It must just be our glorius spring sunshine down under, bleaching out the colour !

I have now completed all 16 smoke vents. They are now awaiting the roofing iron and paint, before fixing in place. Once these are fixed in place, the ridge capping/flashing will be completed. Then I shall begin on the guttering/downpipes on the rear of the building.

Cheers, Gary.

Understood ;-)

 

Don't forget the hairbrushed soot on them :)

 

Phil

Your right there Phil. All the weathering will take place once complete. Hopefully not long now… Then I should decide which to build next, the engine shed or the goods store…? Hmmm, decisions, decisions !

Cheers, Gary.

Really like this Picture Gary :doublethumb , The Shadows really bring it to life, If it wasn't for the lack of ballast I would say that your cheating by trying to pass off Pictures of really places as your models 

Excellent stuff Gary.

Looking forward tossing it bedded into the layout and also the engine shed and goods shed that you've mentioned.

Cheers

Toto

Thanks Aaron and Tom,

I'm not going to ballast until I have all buildings made up so that I can sit them in place and work out whether I need to make any ground/surface changes. Nothing worse than ripping up ballasted track just to move it a few milimeters left or right, let alone trying to change the surface levels or textured surfaces.

Cheers, Gary.

[user=1297]new04db[/user] wrote:

Really like this Picture Gary :doublethumb , The Shadows really bring it to life, If it wasn't for the lack of ballast I would say that your cheating by trying to pass off Pictures of really places as your models 

My thoughts exactly,i'm almost expecting someone to walk along the platform at any time.Excellent work Gary.

Fantastic modelling Gary.  I really like the jig idea.

Terry

Looks excellent - nice job! :)

Thankyou Allan, Michael and Terry. Like I said previously, the jig idea was 'stolen' from a member on RMweb. Although my jig is a little smaller, I'll still take any credit !! I have been looking at people to populate the railway and I keep returning to the Dapol figures. They do look quite good, probably too good for my painting skills…

When I complete the build, I'll post a pic of the original station as a comparison.

Cheers, Gary.

Some excellent building work there Gary.
It really looks the part.
Also I like your rail rust colour!

regards,

Derek

Coming along really nice Gary. Are you still looking for pics of the branch?

Thankyou Derek and Mick.

Derek, the rust colour I used was either Humbrol no.62 Leather matt.  Mick, any pics of the branchline are a bonus.

Latest update on the trainshed (?) is that the roof top vents I made were not upto scratch. Ofcourse I didn't really notice how bad they were until after I had glued them to roofing iron. Looking at the individual vents they looked ok, but grouped together they looked as if Stevie Wonder had made them. So off with the old vents and roofing iron and on with the making of new vents.

Cheers, Gary. 

Gary, don't know if you have seen this site before but there are some interesting pics of Callington during demolition

http://freepages.nostalgia.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cyberheritage/saltoldie1.htm

Thanks for the link, much appreciated. Sad to see stations in this sort of state. Atleast my layout won't look this way, although it would be easier to model !

Cheers, Gary.

Hi Gary

As a beginner, I am in awe of your modelling skills. I would love to think that one day I may be capable of creating something like this, I am just practicing building the freebies from Scalescenes as a start and hope to gradually progress to scratchbuilding eventually.

Keep up the great work..

Paul

Thanks Paul,

Scratchbuilding can be quite adventurous at times, but with a lot of modelling materials readily available, it does make building such models a lot easier. It is basically knowing what is available to you when you plan to build the model. Luckily for me, I have had a little experience in scratchbuilding and have done so, for about 20 years. I'm no expert and if you wish to see some excellent scratchbuilding, check out Allan Downes thread ;

http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=11535&forum_id=13 …and Dooferdogs Bears End layout thread ;

 http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=3303&forum_id=21&highlight=bears+end 

Both men are 'FANTASTIC' modellers.

Cheers, Gary.