Kirley

After running my new Tara's it's back to the grindstone again. I finished coating the platform wall with DAS clay and used the Wills Plastic Card to give a rough stone impression. The coping stones on the top of the wall was made of 2 mm plastic card scribed every 5 mm. It's strange how a photograph can show you what the naked eyes does not see - need to file a smoother curve on the coping stones passed the recess. I finished the Yard Walls, again with DAS clay, and am waiting for it to dry before smoothing it off into a rounded top. The grey recess area was the first go at using the Wills Sheet to make an impression and not very successful but for the later ones I coated the plastic sheet with PVA/water 50% mix and it allowed the sheet to come away more cleanly. You may have noticed I have erected a backboard behind the Station area so to block out the other parts of the layout. Next job will be painting the walls and platforms before screwing it to the baseboard and filling in any gaps. Waiting on the Station Building currently under construction by Glenderg

A rabbit warren of tracks leading to the top level where the buildings promises future delights still to come.

You have just reached that point in any build where it just seems to go on and on but as you say the major work is completed and your enthusiasm will return as the time you can run it on the tracks comes neared.

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Thanks for sharing the photographs, looked an interesting Show.

Just realised its being over a month since I have run any Trains on the layout. Getting a rake of Tara Wagons from Hidden-Agenda was the excuse to stop working on Clonmel Station and move something round the tracks. The engineering skills of Gareth are clearly seen in the fine detail he puts in each of his models and is as a true reflection of the real thing as you can get in the modelling world. But see for yourself.

Any chance of photographs for those who could not make it?

Excellent Phil, lots to learn from what your are doing. I'm very interested in your use of DAS clay, I've only started exploring its possibilities but you have taken it to an art form. If this is the standard of your buildings I can't wait to see what your layout will look like.

I did mine in matt black and went for the faded weathered look, see http://irishrailwaymodelling.com/showthread.php/78-Kirley-s-Projects/page18

Was getting worried, so long without any action after being used to 2 or 3 bulletins a day. Seems all your attention has been with establishing Mission Control, hope normal service will resume shortly.

Thanks for the update, I'm getting more and more tempted to have a go at one of these.

I've got the signals but how do you drill a .04 mm hole in the brass rod provided that's my problem at the moment?

Story telling with pictures, looking forward to the next instalment.

When I got back from my holiday my order of more Wills Sheets had arrived so I was able to complete the road bridge at the end of Clonmel Station. Between the Station buildings and the Goods Shed there is a yard enclosed by high stone walls. This is the start of a representation of it. The road bed of the bridge – to infinity and beyond! The Wills cladding was sprayed with Halfords u/c grey. Then I dry brushed the surface with white/black/yellow/red acrylic paints. The capping on top of the walls is made from plastic card, scribed to give a appearance of separate stones. The enclosed yard has still to be finished. I have run out of sheets and will try all the off-cuts to see if I can complete the internal surfaces. I am going to try DAS modelling clay to give a rounded top to the walls.

Welcome Phil, I've no knowledge of Narrow Gauge but am looking forward to seeing your layout develop. Good luck on the build.

Always top class results on this Workbench. Keep them coming please.

Coming on well, enjoying this build.

Well done Patrick, I bought some copper corrugated sheeting a few years back with the intention of making beet wagons but found it was too thin for wagon bodies. Looking forward to seeing the Mk 3 version.

Two pictures of Ballyhaise Junction in 1956 on page 103 of 'The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in Colour'. One picture on page 16 of 'Railways in Ulster's Lakeland'.

Thanks for the kind comments, just back and catching up. The build’s success was mainly down to two things, lots and lots of detailed photographs and guidance from Glenderg. Working out distances, heights, spacing of openings, and construction of roof trusses for me all lead to a better representation of this lovely old building. I ended up with a love/hate relationship with the Wills sheets. While the textured surface is fantastic they only make the sheets in one size 13 x 7.5 mm which means lots of joins and they are difficult to hide. The slate roof was a case in point. However the extras like the quoins, gutters and down pipes were great. Now on with the bridge.

Clonmel Goods Shed, well one that's adapted to my layout, is finished. As my first venture into making a building I am quite pleased the way it turned out. Mistakes were made but I'm not going to point them out. Sorry for the quality of some of the photographs I used Wills drainpipes and guttering. A start made on doing the stone work for the bridge. Need to order some more sheets to continue the work.

I must mention a big Thank You to Hidden Agenda for his Tutorial on this build. It took a lot of work on his part drawing, preparing and photographing this model and must be an inspiration for anyone new to starch building. This is my effort with help and advice from Gareth. I learned a lot from this project.

Wagons have had their pipework etc. added, sprayed and now waiting for decals before final assembly. I must mention a big Thank You to Hidden Agenda for his Tutorial on this build.

Thanks for the alert.

That's the one. Ingenuity was the mother of invention.