Dunluce Castle

Thanks guys, I'll pass your kind comments onto dad.

Hello everyone,

2 months ago saw the start of the extension, this will give the layout a total length of 26ft with 18ft of scenic area.

Holes in the baseboard to save weight

Overall shot

New end fiddle yard

And this is the new bridge, dads been working hard scribbling every single stone,

Many thanks

Nelson

Hello everyone,

I thought I better ought to start a thread here on this forum about our exhibition layout which was built by all 3 of us (dad did most of it) (although you'll usually see me operating her at exhibitions) many of you may have already seen the layout on the exhibition circuit last year and this year so far.

This layout portrays a typical rural station in County Durham, set in both the 1930s London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) period and the 1960s British Railways period. The railways played a vital role throughout the north east of England due to the high number of coal mines and manufacturing centres, resulting in heavy freight traffic. Passenger traffic, although less important than freight, grew with the spread of industry. What we are hoping to achieve is the busy atmosphere of pre-World War Two days, leading to the subsequent decline of traffic through the post-war period, when the railways faced increased competition from the roads.

The latest exhibition which was the NDMRS Bangor exhibition in the grammar school saw the layout win an award for best exhibit.

Here are some pics,

The layout starting out, the layout took roughly 5 weeks from start to finish.

This pic is from our first exhibition which was the first Bangor one.

I didn't managed to get pics of the exhibition on show at carrickfergus but here it is at the first Bangor Christmas show.

And here are some from our latest show,

Thanks for looking

Nelson

Beautiful

I can see them and I'm using google chrome on iPad

Wow, absolutely beautiful, I cannot wait see her in the flesh at Bangor, she's amazing, well done to all involved.

Thank you for your kind words everyone who has commented, I appreciate it.

And thank you for the information provided gentlemen, all very interesting, as I say I'm still learning.

After the Bangor exhibition I am off school for 2 weeks and I'm planning to do a few NCC wagons and maybe another U2 engone, watch this space....

Coming along really well

Thank you Popeye, the LNER open wagons are Cambrian and the paint is railmatch LNER freight grey.

Fantastic weathering, I love the UTA wagons, which wagons did you use? Dapol?

Hello everyone,

Here is the GNRI cattle wagon, all complete apart from the roof and small details that need touched up.

The 2 wagons have been painted and the interiors repainted, although not as good as my first attempt I think it looks okay, tomorrow will hopefully see the wagons weathered, couplings and wheels added.

Many thanks

Nelson

Really looking forward to seeing it Leslie, can't wait.

Thank you Hunslet

Thank you glenderg and weshty,

I was informed on another forum that the Cambrian 6 plank wagon is actually a goods wagon and not a mineral wagon so what I'm hoping to do is try and repaint the interior and try and achieve the wooden affect again.

Thank you Kirley for your comment, the cattle wagon is near enough complete, just need to paint the roof and tidy some areas up.

Great job so far on the 80 class, I wish I had the confidence to have a go, maybe sometime

Hello everyone,

The 2 Cambrian LNER 6 plank wagons have been built and been through the paint shop and are now completely painted, body (may be a tad too bright for LNER grey but weathering should fix that) and underframe. But whilst trying to paint up the interior I messed it up badly and it's going to take a while to remove and start over again, so what I'm thinking is to add a coal load to both of them (similar to the hurst wagon) and this I think would make the wagon look better and save me time my plan is to have them ready for an exhibition on the 12th of April so I seem to be on target.

Thanks

Nelson

Some very nice good looking models there, but I'm afraid I won't be able to help out with how much the collection is worth.

Yes, all of the spoil wagons were built exactly the same, 70 I think we're bought, the unique thing with these wagons is that there is only 1 door and that's on 1 side only.

Evening everyone, more work has been done to the 2 LNER 6 plank wagons and they are now finished ready for the paint shop, I enjoyed this build not too much trouble and nice and easy to put together.

The GNRI cattle wagon is now complete and just needs to have it roof painted.

I've tried a new technique for interior wood and I'll leave you to decide how it looks when the wagon is complete, the interior still needs touching up with paint at the edges and corners.

Thanks

Nelson

I would love to go, but I won't be able to, Easter eggspress for me tho

Hello everyone,

Found this via Facebook, some really great shots like the first one,

Beautiful, great job, I love the curved platform, very nice indeed.

What type of masking tape are you using? Some thick masking tapes don't work very well.

Lovely model