N / OO9 Two scales one gauge

Petermac said

Nobody can call you a dummy at weathering Rick - they look great. 

From “Post #291,605”, 26th February 2025, 9:57 pm

Absolutely!

Cheers,
Claus

Whilst waiting for paint to dry …..

….. I opened and weathered an N-gauge item. Two small town houses side by side no longer have perfectly white walls. 

Black has been wiped across all surfaces. Details of rust and slime are picked out with rusty brown and green powders. 

And it’s small as you can see from the fingers holding it. 

err yeah, that's small 

Nice job Rick. 

A small stream will run down from the hills and disappear into a culvert beneath the railway.

Land formed from foam-board with a channel roughly carved out. Painted with Woodland Scenics “Earth Undercoat”. Various stones placed then fixed with a first pour of Woodland “Realistic Water”. 

Ground cover also being tested to match the backscene with talus, fine green turf and a fine orange flock

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus 

As today is St David’s Day all available passenger stock has been assembled for the trip down the valley. Hill settlements have no pubs so everyone drinks in town. To bring the heavy train back home in the small hours both Baldwins are rostered in tandem. 

“Engine” Evans leads Dafydd “The coal” Williams while Dai “Steam” is relegated to the slate run today with his smaller Hunslet. 

The loco servicing area has gained a post-and-chain fence beside the line. This is an amazingly detailed laser cut card item from Scale Model Scenery and required no small amount of patience and skill to safely cut it from the carrier sheet.  Water-colour black paint and rust weathering powder have been applied. The size - and the detail of the links - can be gauged from the rule alongside. 

It might have been fiddly, but it looks the business.

Agree with Pete, the chain looks great.

It's the type of thing that's unfortunately too fiddly for my fat fingers, so very well done Rick  

That's a novel way of representing chain but it looks good.

The first two attempts at the mountain stream have not been very successful.  

The first saw the water resin drain away as the board was slightly less than perfectly level.  Some of it soaked into the foam-board around it though hasn't done any harm to the scene.  For the second attempt I lined the channel with a plastic bread wrapper to prevent leakage.  It didn't.  Somehow that pesky resin still found its way out.  The channel is now level and there was no seam nor tear in the liner.  Its escape remains a mystery and it hasn't soaked into anything that I can find this time …..

I don't have DAS clay in stock but a pack is now ordered for delivery tomorrow in order to line the water-course and hopefully - once and for all - achieve a level pour which cannot escape.  

In the meantime I have been slowly building a collection of N-gauge items for when I flip the scene and start on the post-industrial rot.  

The DAS clay liner seems to have resolved 90% of the leakage. 

After three coats of Woodland “Earth Undercoat” I poured a trial layer of “Realistic Water” and waited. The level went down a little and I had that déja-vû sense of “oh no, not again”. But it started to cure as well and appeared to stop leaking away. I suspect it may have sealed the clay. 

So I scattered random stones and a few hours later came back and poured another layer of water. Into this I dropped a few spots of Woodland “Moss Green” and more Earth Undercoat which were dragged through the resin with a cotton-wool bud. 

So far - eight hours on - the level has held and the resin is starting to cure right through. At the deepest it is around 5mm.  No big deal. 

An initial image showing a clearly unfinished scene but giving an idea of what, I hope, is to come in the next few days. 

A somewhat more complete scene now as two pours of Realistic Water have stayed within the channel and the stream starts to look as I expected. 

Looks good Rick 

It's looking very watery Rick - I understand pouring scale water is very difficult.  I remember someone on here in the dim and distant past trying very hard to get rid of that small miniscus always present with resins.  It looks like you've almost managed it.

Remember the little houses for the N-gauge theme?  In addition to weathering them they  now have curtains drawn in the upstairs rooms. As do the brick-built terraced houses. Upstairs left on these have had an attempt at texturing added with soft pencil; downstairs right also has the bay windows curtained.  All done with slips of paper glued inside.

Looks great but why all the closed curtains?

Phil.c said

Looks great but why all the closed curtains?

From “Post #291,940”, 2nd April 2025, 10:50 am

Who knows what goes on behind closed curtains?  Just the occupant's choice, I guess.  

If I decide I don't like them that way it's easy to change; they are only bits of paper stuck inside and can easily be removed or swapped for drawn-back curtains.  Maybe even get a glimpse of someone indoors, eh?  I've modelled that before!  

Gwiwer said

Phil.c said

Looks great but why all the closed curtains?

From “Post #291,940”, 2nd April 2025, 10:50 am

Who knows what goes on behind closed curtains?  Just the occupant's choice, I guess.  

If I decide I don't like them that way it's easy to change; they are only bits of paper stuck inside and can easily be removed or swapped for drawn-back curtains.  Maybe even get a glimpse of someone indoors, eh?  I've modelled that before!  

From “Post #291,945”, 2nd April 2025, 7:41 pm

    

Minor but essential details finally added to the cottages are the side gates. 


These are from Scale Model Scenery, both LMS platform and five-bar gate kits. Both have been slightly adapted to fit the spaces by using offcuts from the card to make wider posts / fence pieces.