Patrick Davey

Not my area of interest but this looks fantastic, the Deltic too!

After a bit of touching up and pointing, here's where we are - and here's where we'll stay for a while - work gets in the way now for a few weeks....

This is where I am at close of business tonight. Painting largely complete, just some touching up to be done then pointing with filler then an overall wash of dilute black to weather it. Then I have to fill in the two upper storey window openings - been researching and have decided on a corrugated iron louvre effect. Also need to find a way to make the doors openable……

Now I’m getting close….. A bit of dry brushing of grey and white followed by picking out the quoins and lintels etc in a ‘sandstone’ mix of cream & brown:

I'll pretend I understand........

I’m looking at the site now and it’s saying all sold - maybe my wife has hacked the site to stop me buying any more Edit: 38 on the .com site but none on the .co.uk site

So have the final A30s all gone, meaning every one of these world-beating models has now sold????

Base coat of black going on. The building will be finished in a basalt-effect random stone with sandstone quoins & lintels etc, a common architectural style in Co. Antrim.

Progress at last!

So here is my latest attempt to get the quoins looking as neat as I need them to be. I have knocked up a small jig from plasticard and this will act as a guide for scribing into the clay/filler surface. This process will start tomorrow afternoon and hopefully it will work, as I do enjoy scribing, I find it very relaxing! The nearest wall will not be seen on the layout so I haven’t bothered to smooth it off with filler. Lazy!

The low relief mill building progresses: two layers of clay have now hardened and sanding has commenced. Once I am happy with that, the scribing of the quoins and stonework will begin.

Thanks Popeye and David - I have added a second layer of DAS clay today and will sand it tomorrow so I should be OK from here on. The only issue with DAS is that it is much heavier than card which isn't great for a portable layout so some time invested in becoming more familiar with card modelling would be beneficial to me. Thanks everyone for your comments!

My attempts at creating precision quoins using card didn’t quite end successfully…..I have admitted defeat and I’m currently covering the structure with DAS clay and will then scribe the stonework, including the quoins, once dry. It will take a second layer of the clay tomorrow to cover the structure completely then I will leave it for a day or two to dry thoroughly. A combination of impatience plus inexperience combined against me here but at least I should be ok with the clay

Cheers GM - it's about 1mm thick so I think I'll try the primer when I get home.

A question for those who model in card! I’ve always been a plasticard kind of person but for various reasons I have been using card on this build. The quoins are finished in card and will need painted and then masked. Last time I tried this I was too heavy with the paint and didn’t thin it down as I was worried that too much water would soak into the card and disfigure it. But the ‘too thick’ paint looked awful. So the question is: does card take primer, or would a seal of PVA glue do the trick? TIA!

When normal people go on a work trip.....they use the time in the hotel to relax. It would only be an abnormal person who would bring his model railway stuff with him to catch up on a build..... ......

Thanks Mark - afraid not but it won't take long to get a replacement knocked up

Due to bit of impatience on my part.....I have had to abandon the above and start again.......

Been working this week on the final building (or maybe not....) for Brookhall Mill - an 'original' ie pre-GNR(I) stone building. It will have a low relief depth of around 1.5in but will have opening doors giving access inside for covered vans, I will be adding a short extension to the baseboard to facilitate this. Making quoins and window/door surrounds from Scale Model Scenery coping stones: Front of building: With doors: The quoins etc. were painted yellow then masked off, then a layer of DAS clay was added over a spread of PVA glue: Painting of the stonework begins with a base coat of black:

Another coincidence JB: I managed to capture the same vehicle on a date in the late 1960s, might have been the very same working?

1955: A special consignment of linen being made ready for its journey via North Wall in Dublin, to join the Cork goods for eventual delivery to Dugort Harbour.

Love the track level view in the cutting JB! Did I hear a rumour that there's a consignment on the way from Brookhall Mill?

GNR(I) red brick buildings completed. Final block will be in an older architectural style. Although there may be a ‘bonus’ GNR building later……

Working on this corner at the moment. This will be the last block of GNR red brick…..or will it….

Lovely photos Ernie! Continued thanks for sharing these wonderful views.