And a special thanks to you Phil for the cheque which paid for a new set of tyres for the car, a new sofa for SWIMBO  and a new engine for me !

Allan

You forgot to mention the 1959 Strat Allan

Silly ol' me.

That would be a competition winner Phil. Very nice work!
Cheers 

Marty 

Thanks Marty!

Here's a quick shot with the Station building plonked down on site…a tight fit…and I forgot to line up the pillars  :roll:Also, Allan Downes cracking signal box in the distance, yet to be positioned properly and weathered etc.

Modelling at its best, Phil.   :thumbs

Looking good, Phil (well the signal box anyway  ;-))

What would really be of interest is how you coloured the station stone work and what colours you used then I could tell everyone that I invented it !


Really inspiring stuff mate.


Allan

Looking great. Is that some used loo roll on the tracks between the platforms?

I know it's an authentic detail of railways, but… ewwwwww! ;)

Thanks Max ;-)

Daniel, I believe that white item belonged to a courting couple…it was a windy night…can't say any more  


[user=1427]allan downes[/user] wrote:

Looking good, Phil (well the signal box anyway  ;-))

What would really be of interest is how you coloured the station stone work and what colours you used then I could tell everyone that I invented it !


Really inspiring stuff mate.


Allan

Mmmm!…you can't really see the signal box Allan, I made sure it was far enough away

Re the paintwork, I covered the stonework with a chocolate type colour, then added MODEL COLOR German Cam. Med.Brown/  Green Grey/   Fieldgrey WW11 and Humbrol 72, all matt of course, I might still give everything a dirty black/green/brown wash though as that's the colour in my area,  © © © © and Naa!…My invention!   © © © ©  :chicken

Thanks, Phil.

Your invention ? Prove it :mrgreen:


Allan

It will take me a while to go through all my documentation, and Patents etc and I forgot a trip to Italy is coming up...later maybe :mrgreen:

Seen buildings that colour, looks brilliant  :thumbs


Signal box, what signal box, didn't notice one  




Ed

Thanks Ed.

Not to worry, Allans box will get good coverage when it's weathered and bedded in :mrgreen:

There is a little matter of the track ballast being out of scale, this was done before I knew better about twenty six years ago, there's a lot of it and difficult to reach :roll:

There's three possibilities, leave as it is, (not really), dig it all up and re-lay finer ballast or add finer ballast to it which would fill in the areas between the big stuff?

Re the ballast, Phil.

Try a section first by 'blinding' it with a very fine dust powder, not N gauge ballast as I think it will be too heavy.


Anyway, just a thought and the ballast as it is looks just fine to me. Check out a close up of real track work and you'll see  just how heavy looking real ballast was/is.


Allan

Ballast looks alright to me as well.


Ed

Actually each stone would be around 6" in  diameter, I have some very fine stuff which should should fill in and balance things out a tad.

Been doing other stuff lately but here's a new picture of Pen y bryn Colliery.

I don't know if there's a way of making the attached picture bigger?

Click on what looks like a white exclamation mark in a red circle top right just under the exit cross, Phil, and you can expand the picture almost as large as you like.

Cheers mate, and welcome back.


Allan

"Click on what looks like a white exclamation mark in a red circle top right just under the exit cross"

You're looking at something different than me Allan?