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  1. Patrick Davey
    Sadly completely closed Noel
  2. Patrick Davey
    This should be of interest - the chap who took the photos doesn't name the station on his Facebook page for fear of attracting vandals (although it's pretty obvious to us Northerners!) https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=UrbexForgottenUlster&set=a.2083544058510177
  3. Patrick Davey
    Now that's how to do it - simply superb scratchbuilding! Looking forward to further updates.
  4. Patrick Davey
    His 'layout' kills me
  5. Patrick Davey
    And depending on how the wind is blowing, he says 'Remain'........
  6. Patrick Davey
    Well the louvres didn’t work….. they all fell apart! I had made a card frame for them to fit into but I don’t think the glue and the material liked each other I had left it all overnight to cure but when I started adjusting it all this morning, it collapsed This small build really is putting up a big fight
  7. Patrick Davey
    Managed to grab an hour or two today. Wasn’t totally happy with the paint finish so I have darkened it down a bit which has improved that I think, and I’ve also started working on the corrugated iron louvres for the upper windows. I haven’t quite measured these properly so I might have to redo this later. Or maybe the irregular lines are more authentic?
  8. Patrick Davey
    Not my area of interest but this looks fantastic, the Deltic too!
  9. Patrick Davey
    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....
  10. Patrick Davey
    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……
  11. Patrick Davey
    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:
  12. Patrick Davey
    I'll pretend I understand........
  13. Patrick Davey
    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
  14. Patrick Davey
    So have the final A30s all gone, meaning every one of these world-beating models has now sold????
  15. Patrick Davey
    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.
  16. Patrick Davey
    Progress at last!
  17. Patrick Davey
    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!
  18. Patrick Davey
    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.
  19. Patrick Davey
    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!
  20. Patrick Davey
    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
  21. Patrick Davey
    Cheers GM - it's about 1mm thick so I think I'll try the primer when I get home.
  22. Patrick Davey
    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!
  23. Patrick Davey
    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..... ......
  24. Patrick Davey
    Thanks Mark - afraid not but it won't take long to get a replacement knocked up
  25. Patrick Davey
    Due to bit of impatience on my part.....I have had to abandon the above and start again.......
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