Glenderg's Projects

[Glenderg]

Cheers Horse! There's another batch of Ballykay buildings coming shortly, so I hope to have photos to show later.

 

There's more a chance of Ennis than Claremorris to be honest, but there's not a whole lot of photos of either of them to attempt to work out the drawings. There should be planning drawings on file in the County Council from the butchery in 2005/6, they haven't scanned anything in online. and it's a pretty straightforward nice building. Claremorris on the other hand is a bit of a mess, with bits stuck on all over the place, and interventions almost once a decade. If it was brought back in model form, it would have to be the original version. 60's modernist brutalism isn't my cup of custard.

 

Richie.

[Horsetan]

.....Claremorris on the other hand is a bit of a mess, with bits stuck on all over the place, and interventions almost once a decade. If it was brought back in model form, it would have to be the original version. .....

 

.....which is what I was after.....

[Guest hidden-agenda]

He wont be appearing with Melinda and Dominic judging by the stuff he has done to date.

[djkonore]

Fantastic work throughout your workbench Richie. Unbelievable patience and attention to detail is very apparent.

[Glenderg]

Cheers Conor! Gareth I had to ask the mrs to explain that one to me

 

I'll do a decent update tomorrow, in a bit of a hurry. I completed the prototype for my first building for my layout, and it's a bit wonky even though it's only an inch high. Layout's based on the North Wall Quay's / LMS anytime between the 1910's and now, so I have an excuse to run whatever I want. It's only an Ikea shelf, but that's enough. The character within has just left a local hostelry, and we're unsure if he's looking for change, or havin' a slash!

 

 

 

More tomorrow. Richie.

[Garfield]

I swear, I can never view this thread without drooling... love the phone box!

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Another master piece Well done

 

 

[Mayner]

Cheers Conor! Gareth I had to ask the mrs to explain that one to me

 

I'll do a decent update tomorrow, in a bit of a hurry. I completed the prototype for my first building for my layout, and it's a bit wonky even though it's only an inch high. Layout's based on the North Wall Quay's / LMS anytime between the 1910's and now, so I have an excuse to run whatever I want. It's only an Ikea shelf, but that's enough. The character within has just left a local hostelry, and we're unsure if he's looking for change, or havin' a slash!

 

 

 

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More tomorrow. Richie.

 

Ah Richie you can almost smell the atmosphere from here;)

 

I worked down that area for a while before it was gentrified, great atmosphere we would go to some of a the early houses for a fry up for breakfast as the regulars were getting into a session.

 

Hope you have a go at the old LNWR station, woolstore and hotel.

[BosKonay]

[scahalane]

'Press button A!' Ah when phones were phones....nice work

[heirflick]

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just beautiful richie....brings back memories! the good old phone box had many uses.......a shelter from the rain, a meeting place, getting the odd snog, baby making for the more adventurous types among us, having a piss , oh and making a phone call!!

[RedRich]

Sweet work Richie all the research pays off when that is the end result. You use the brain Richie and you use it to great effect.

 

Rich,

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

I didn't know what to expect when you told me about this on the phone Richie as usual fantastic well done

[Guest hidden-agenda]

Nice work G.

[Garfield]

Richie... just wondering. I'd imagine a perspex frame could be made up fairly handily for the phonebox and the overlays placed on that?

[Glenderg]

Thanks lads Hilarious as usual seamus!

 

Richie... just wondering. I'd imagine a perspex frame could be made up fairly handily for the phonebox and the overlays placed on that?

 

The footplate of the box is 12mm x 12mm - pretty small. Not sure how thin perspex gets, but it might be a squeeze. I'll be posting up the "kit" of the phonebox later, so you guys can print off and make up them for yerselves. I'll put it in it's own thread so different ways of making it can be teased out. Richie.

[Garfield]

Thanks lads Hilarious as usual seamus!

 

 

 

The footplate of the box is 12mm x 12mm - pretty small. Not sure how thin perspex gets, but it might be a squeeze. I'll be posting up the "kit" of the phonebox later, so you guys can print off and make up them for yerselves. I'll put it in it's own thread so different ways of making it can be teased out. Richie.

 

Nice one! I'll do a bit of Googling to see if there's a suitable thickness of perspex out there, but I've a feeling you might be right on that...

 

Edit: Microscope slides might do the trick... they're usually around 1mm thick.

Edited November 15, 2012 by Garfield

[Broithe]

Microscope slides might do the trick... they're usually around 1mm thick.

 

There's slides and there's 'cover slips', which are very thin.

[Garfield]

There's slides and there's 'cover slips', which are very thin.

 

Indeed... better again!

[David]

You can get perspex down to 0.5mm or maybe less. A lot of architectural models are made from this.

[Glenderg]

Bosko has set up two fora - one for buildings, and one for Glenderg Models. I hope to populate the first with photos of railway buildings going back about 10 years, and the other with free stuff. New job has meant that free time to commercialise this is almost nil, so I'll stick to whoever needs work done in "IRM" house. If anyone remembers the yellow luggage platform trolleys at Limerick Junction, I'll have drawings and photos next week if any of you guys want to have a go. Proper instructions and a bit of "bodging" too - a nice little project to populate your platforms methinks.

 

So on to the update..

 

First up on the workbench is the workbench itself. The mrs dragged me kicking and screaming to Ikea recently, and I found a few bits that were cheap and handy. The skinny little shelves are about 3 ft long and wide enough for two pieces of stock - 6 eu . The herb shelves are 3 eu each and are handy for bits of stock to be worked on or paint pot storage areas. After borrowing 40 notes of the mrs, this is what I ended up with. I may not have a layout, but I have a wife who allows me this. In the kitchen!

 

 

All the balsa, card and other crap is beneath the counter. First off, I have two "cut'n'shut" jobs to do, to convert a maroon coach somehow into a bredin and then into a weedspray coach. This is going better than expected, and I hope to have more photos and drawings early next week if anyone else fancies a crack at this madness.

 

 

One of the mistakes I made was to presume that any filler that smells the same, behaves the same. On the left, the pro stuff, that is brilliant but costs a fortune. On the right, the cheap stuff that would barely stick two hairs together. "Bigi Curamach" - being a cheapskate only goes so far it transpires

 

 

More on this project next week...but in the meantime a few photos of 40 ft containers for 201 Bhoy to make an almost instant container yard. I'm not a big fan of card for rolling stock or its components, but personally I think they pass muster especially if stacked in the background, whilst the plastic version sits in the foreground.

 

 

 

 

A working card/mdf container gantry crane is already in the works to go with this, and I hope to have it up to vincent by christmas.

 

Next up is Anthony's Ballykay - essentially a quintessential irish village, {without Darby O'Gill making an appearance!}

 

Like ttc169, I like to invent stories that match the invented lives of the little plastic people - heres the family in village "with a few bob" - the youngest became a doctor and inherited the home place. After investing in the wrong stocks in 1928, he sold the farm/homestead and built/renovated this house in the village. He rents out the two spaces downstairs, and has done for many a year, though his clientèle mainly avoid him. No one in the village can figure out where he gets his money from, but his door is always open. Tom Ryan the butcher is his wayward nephew, but he holds more stock with the villagers than the good doctor does....

 

 

 

In any irish village there are always a couple of houses that are non-descript, but loads of politics occur in the background. I imagine that two sister-in-laws own a house each, and don't particularly talk to each other - one being house proud and upstanding, the other stuck in the 1970's with the lovely orange glass in the front door side lights. Both think they are better than each other, but are pretty much the same when all is said and done.

 

 

Then there is the ex-pub/tin whistle classes of a saturday mornin room/poitin maker/ lawnmower repair man/motor factor house. Every hamlet in Ireland has one of these that are immaculately cared for, yet show no sign of a woman's touch. There is no sign above the door to indicate a business, but things happen within that only the older "min" in the village speak of. Not a house to be visited when "trick or treating"

 

 

 

This is how this crackpot village is supposed to stack together

 

 

I used photos of doors originally and found they lacked depth. Instead I used a bit of balsa, scored vertically with a sharp pencil -

 

 

The one on the right has a wash of dilute brown acrylic paint on it, and looks pretty deadpan. I made a pile of pencil dust and rubbed it on the door to the left while the wash was drying. I think it gives is a bit more depth, and there's 2 minutes work involved to scribe the doors and weather them. (if short on brown paint, ALDI coffee will do)

 

Next to come is this fella - a staple of most "who do dey tink dey are" villages in Ireland - the Fire Brigade Station - Captured in Kells last week. A low relief kit if I ever seen one!

[Glenderg]

Change of scene - This building had been commissioned by a Client, and when Bosko saw it, declared that he needed one of his own. I think it began life as a carraige maintenance shed alongside his autoballaster sidings and has now become part of the restoration depot portion of his layout, so it had to change quickly from Connolly Station to Blackrock Road Depot, a nod to Whitehead by reversing the title. One of the original components of the building is its repetitive nature, and refuelling lines attached.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know little about the actual operation of these lines, but I did read the risk assessment report of the real ones implementation. How sad, and still none the wiser!

 

Lastly, and I'm sure ye're glad, is a the platform canopy to complete Kirleys "Kirley Junction" building. I had originally intended to etch the parts in brass, but the cost is beyond belief, and to my mind, can't be justified unless your name begins with Pete and ends with Waterman. I got up Sunday while all was quite, and finished the drawings. I went downstairs, stuck on the coffee, and put an episode of Foyles War on in the background to get me in the mood for 40's thinking. After some serious head scratching, I came to the conclusion that balsa wood, overscale or not, instead of card or styrene, was the best material to progress with. It will last 20 years, the others unlikely. I know now how I "should" have done this, but nonetheless am pretty happy with it, and all that's left is to finish the standing seams for the lead roof and weather it to appear like lead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kind regards lads,

 

Richie.

[Kirley]

Fantastic work as usual Richie, thanks for putting up the canopy pictures, it really looks the part.

[Kirley]

Richie can you clear your mail box please as your stored private messages is over quota and cannot accept further messages until you clear some space.

[WRENNEIRE]

Didnt see any pics of Mala Mala or Hazelwood house?

STORY:mad:

[BosKonay]

:jazz::jazz:

[Glenderg]

Hazelwood house?

 

So it's not called "PuddleView" then? Mala mala is on the WB too, but its just a pile of windows, cills, chimneys. Not assembled.

Inbox sorted Kirley.

Edited November 21, 2012 by Glenderg

[Warbonnet]

Love the workbench lad, how I would like mine.

 

And your output? Superb as always!

[201bhoy]

Superb Richie! Love the stories and of course my containers!

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

I can't tell you guy's on here enough how good this man work is in real life. Get your orders in.

Thanks for the Ballykay pictures Bud its great to see how it all goes together. When I get it all installed on the layout I will get some pictures up for you.

[Weshty]

Firstly, congrats on the new job and the best of luck.

 

Secondly, I can best describe my complements on your fine work in MS Excel terms = (drool)^50. I am DEFINITELY commissioning you to do my station building if and whenever!

 

Question: I though the Dapol pockets could take only 40'ers, how's that MSC fitting in with room to spare, some subtle kitbashing to extend it?

 

I should add, amazing workbench, and in the kitchen as well. No greater love!

Edited November 21, 2012 by Weshty

[scahalane]

Amazing work there Richie. The workshop looks great and in the kitchen!! No wonder you get so much work done, Eat, drink in the same space.....all you need is move the bed in and you'd have a proper sweat shop!!

[Guest hidden-agenda]

Lovely work Rich and very tidy work bench(i tidy and make a mess and tidy and samo samo) the end result of your work is stunning and very educational to watch.

[Glenderg]

Question: I though the Dapol pockets could take only 40'ers, how's that MSC fitting in with room to spare, some subtle kitbashing to extend it?

 

It's scratchbuilt as the 45' container irish version from styrene sheet, evergreen sections, and bits of brass wire/ink cartidges/pencil tops Having the WB in the kitchen is a blessing, I need to sort out some decent lighting though. Thanks all for the kind words, even from Uncle Kranky

[heirflick]

splendid work as usual richie!