Small station on the Devan & Summersett

Dirty red - Humbrol #153  Insignia Red -  Matt - dullcoated which helps to hide the paper number, etc joins on plastic ( camera close ups don't hide faults though), then some black & rust weathering powder fingered on.
4 wheelers require a bit of weight & good track - bogie vehicles are more tolerant of iffy track.

Wagons looking good there.  I agree with comments that keeping light 4-wheelers on the road can be a PITA; some of mine prefer to do the "Six-foot dance" at times.

I'm also having some trouble getting weathering powders locally.  Where you you source yours?

Those look nice wagons Sol - what make are they ?

Rick, weathering powders:
one lot from USA
http://www.bragdonent.com/weather.htm

another lot available in Melbourne
http://www.brunelhobbies.com.au/AIM/AIM.htm

or from Perth
http://www.dccconcepts.com/index_files/DCCflocks.htm

 

Petermac- they are Bachmann Conflats



pic courtesy of KMRC

Modified the other flat wagon now to make a pair.

Weight is half a blade sharpening block, gives weight & looks like a concrete block & to hold it in place, I made some steel frames ( .75mm styrene)




glued to shapes



Painted, glued in & dirtied





 

The two of them together now by one of the lead in tracks to the gravel loader







no doubt in time, they will get weathered more.

I like how you have made the load weights different Sol…. and the numbers stand out clearly too.

A useful and interesting addition to an operating session.

Do they live in a siding near the gravel plant or do they travel around with the train?

Thats a pretty smart looking stone load Ron if you make a rake of them you will need a Heljan engine to pull them

Brian

They look very 'real', Ron.
I notice the buffers are gone, is that for operating reasons or have I missed something?

They look pretty heavy, Sol.  Too much for the Terrier. 

Nice work.

Nice loads, Ron. I like the holding frames.

Mike

OK,
first answer for Marty:- they will live where I have spotted them for the photo - part of the gravel loading area. All my wagon numbers are bigger so we can see which ones get dropped off/picked up but in this case, they will stay at Watchit.

second answer for HP - the weight - actually less than I normally use, eg, my vans are 60gm/ 2 oz  whereas Barrier 3904 is 50gm/1.75 oz  & 3905 ( the block) is 45 gm/1.5 oz.   I needed more weight than just a plain conflat as they will be pushing 4 bogie hoppers that will weigh in total over 8 ozs.

third answer for ddolfelin :- buffers removed as my rail empire is going to all air brakes & knuckles couplers, so buffers are redundant ( slowly). It saves about 4-5mm per coupled pair of stock so over a 20 wagon train, saves 40-50 mm. The models stil;l have to have axle box rods installed.  In fact the South Australian Railways did that many many years ago when they changed from chain & hooks to knuckle couplings.  I had mentioned this on my layout thread http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=5948&forum_id=21&page=2

and this photo



 

Plus this http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=5533&forum_id=52

Thanks, Ron.
I knew I'd missed something.

Those two flat look excellent Ron - nice loads. thumbs

Another industry in Watchit will be a Printers building using the Scalescenes warehouse. The vans carrying supplies in will be Private Owner vans & the first one has come off the refurbishment line of an older van.

Started life as a Cooper craft Mink Van of the GWR




Building the kit is relatively easy - the main hiccup is placing the axle box Assembly in as per instructions,  does not really give much slop in the wheels to give free running. I had to angle the axle boxes out wards. ( The next kit, they will be altered slightly). The roof was covered with canvas as per the original vans so I used masking tape. Looks OK I think!

The colour scheme is blue roof, & white/cream sides & ends. This pic shows the roof colour & a base coat on the sides.


As per D&S railway rules- knuckle couplings & no buffers are the flavour of the month.

Sides now coated with white paint- Owner panel added & running number- Dullcoated giving a slightly worn look. I think may need to obtain a new can of white paint.




I have one more to build then the fleet will be extended using white Bachmann vans.

I saw it today when I called in.  It looks even better in the flesh.  :thumbs

certainly cracking on,looking forward to a vid of the running set,

:doublethumb:cool:

Looking good Ron,

Back on post #31, I posted this plan



with a photo showing some of the some of the trackage



Since that was done, there was an additional siding  between the platform & engine shed lines ( photo below has it going to the right next to the Container) but recent Op sessons showed that the loops available mainly on the secondary line was too small so I altered in the last two days by shifting the crossover a further 11" (280mm) closer to the camera.




Bit messy but it shows the extensions to the tracks - not fully sleepered. Point rodding had to be moved as well. What also made it interesting is that the crossover is a complete unit of the two points so both moved at the same time.

Finally got it tidied up. The platform is what I had built for an earlier version of Barnstable - slight modification & it will do for Watchit




 

Coming on Ron, good to see one of us making some progress!