[user=567]gastwo[/user] wrote:

[user=19]Marty[/user] wrote

Marty(Llechryd looks nice, I like the bridge and the gently sloping main street down to the river. Hope you've got somewhere comfortable. What happened to your old barn?)

Really like Llechryd, Marty. We now have a fairly modern house that doesn't need too much maintaining, a spare room big enough for 'railwaying' and close to all the village facilities. Do miss the barn though!
Our house is towards the top left corner in this 'Google' shot:



ATB

Shaun.

That's a lovely looking spot Shaun. Quite homesick! Always amazed by how green and lush it is.
Marty

Glad you like the clouds Bob, they were the result of a very enjoyable painting blitz a few Christmas's ago following the process as outlined by MikeC in his painting tutorial that can be found on this forum.

All rail traffic has halted I afraid, time to make messes….




This time, and it's unusual for me, I've attempted to protect the track with masking tape… we shall see, I'm assuming that removing masking tape adhesive from the railhead is easier than removing blobs of PVA and scatter? :shock:

I was tired of the brown hillside, it's been like this for years…





Time to move on, preliminary ground cover and hedges have been added, lots more to do but at least it's less brown…





Colonel Frobisher (Ret.) is descending the farm track after using the hillside to assess the Henllan Station layout. Who left that blasted tractor in the way?





cheers
Marty

Great hillside Marty!

looks like you are cooking again Marty,excelent
:thumbs;-):cool:
Owen

Thanks Shaun and Owen,

Mojo well and truly returned…

After seeing Shaun's (and many others) good use of static grass I've looked at the various YouTube videos for the construction of a home made applicator and had a go myself. A mate donated an electronic bug swatter to the cause (he had two, don't ask me why but he did) and everything else I had on hand. At least… The domestic authorities were kind enough to accept the promise of a "brand shiny new tea strainer" as a replacement for the old tatty one I was about to do unspeakable things to!

An old plastic vegemite jar provides the grass storage chamber and I'm going to use the hole saw drill attachment to cut the mounting hole for the wire mesh in the yellow plastic lid. The mesh was epoxied to the lid.








Now just to put all of this together…






Not the prettiest of beasts but it's solid enough and there's a good spark when the nail touches the mesh…






…and it works…. Woo hoo…






Now…. Google street view … What is grassed and what isn't!

Marty

Looks great Marty and congratulations on picture of the week :thumbs


Ed

:oops::shock::lol:

How about that… Thanks Big Al. Glad you liked it.

Thanks Ed. enjoying the journey.

Marty

Well deserved.  :thumbs

"Colonel Frobisher (Ret.) "     I couldn't see his faithful Dog !!

good modelling Marty  :thumbs

Very convincing.

Allan

[user=606]Sol[/user] wrote:

"Colonel Frobisher (Ret.) "     I couldn't see his faithful Dog !!

good modelling Marty  :thumbs

Well, Bisto will just have to stand in for him, taken today on his ninth birthday…..

Oh! And wot Sol 'sed!

Doug

[user=1338]Ed[/user] wrote:

Looking forward to a Narrow Gauge loco on a T or ZZ chassis


Ed

….more like looking DOWN…[a microscope } Go on do it! You know you want to….

D

Thank you gentlemen…

It means a lot.

Marty

[user=312]Chubber[/user] wrote:

[user=1338]Ed[/user] wrote:

Looking forward to a Narrow Gauge loco on a T or ZZ chassis


Ed

….more like looking DOWN…[a microscope } Go on do it! You know you want to….

D

Touchè Sir :lol:  

Added to the list.

Hugs to the old charmer, he's one of our favourite dogs and Colonel Frobisher would be delighted to have his assistance.

Many thanks

Marty

Working on the road today…





and the rear lane access to the station yard… (which I hasten to add is, as far as I am aware, entirely fictitious)…






These are ingredients so far…






… and this is what, eventually, I'm aiming for… the walls on either side of the road are the original rail bridge walls… 'struth… what have I got myself into…. lets get the tarmac colour close for a start…








Marty

Good to see you with a Pic of the Week, Marty, and lots of interesting and good stuff going on here as well.  

Let me know what you choose for the road surface as it's a bugbear of mine - the real thing looks so different in sunlight to shade as your picture shows.

Many thanks Rick!

I'm using a technique demonstrated by MikeC that I'm pretty sure is on this forum too. The water putty is a great medium for road surfaces and hard stands. I've tinted mine with just a dash of black oxide to try and get the grey in the photo. 

At the moment it looks like this, it's still wet but once dry I'll brush some pastel colours over it to get the variations in road surface from weathering and wear and tear.






You are right about how the colour will vary depending on the level of ambient light, I think that the tinted water putty will react in a similar way. This next photo shows a macro view of the road surface which shows a variation in colour just from camera angle, zoom and aperture change. It also shows some more static grass added to the bank as part of the ongoing experimentation with my home made applicator…. did I mention how chuffed I am with it!






Marty

That looks pretty good as a close up Marty so you should have no problems with a distant view and let's not forget this is N ;-)

Phil

While I'm waiting for the road to dry…

The road to nowhere needs to go somewhere and the hillside needs to be covered in a wood.






So, firstly the backscene, it's been a while, let's see if I can still do this…





Marty

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

That looks pretty good as a close up Marty so you should have no problems with a distant view and let's not forget this is N ;-)

Phil

Thanks Phil…

( secretly quaking in my boots as another modeller living in Wales appears to be watching over my shoulder :shock: :lol: Ulp… too late to model a South African prototype now ;-) ) 
Marty