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How exciting !  Am sure your Midas touch will soon bring this to life. Through station between Comber and Newcastle will allow a nice timetable without having to build loads of commuter carriages ! 

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OH Yes , oh yes, oh yes!😃 Can't wait to see this progress, Alan. I will be watching it like a hawk, so no slacking ha ha. In fairness, you have great headway made already. You will have to begin raiding the Costa again for the stirrers.............. Best of luck with it(layout not stirrers😉)

Derek

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2 hours ago, derek said:

OH Yes , oh yes, oh yes!😃 Can't wait to see this progress, Alan. I will be watching it like a hawk, so no slacking ha ha. In fairness, you have great headway made already. You will have to begin raiding the Costa again for the stirrers.............. Best of luck with it(layout not stirrers😉)

Derek

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1 hour ago, David Holman said:

Very Iain Rice, Alan and none the worse for it either. Great to know all that lovely County Down stock will get its own bespoke setting.

Thanks David. Yes, Iain Rice has been and continues to be a huge influence. 

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First structure, a bridge. As far as I can see, BCDR bridges varied in style and construction but there is a bit of a house style and they do share one quality - they're indestructible. Witness the number which still stand beside realigned roads, in the middle of fields, in people's gardens or on country roads where they're still in use 70+ years after the railway closed. They never fall down.

This one might be a bit less robust being made from foamboard, card, plastic and DAS clay. The Wills rough stone sheets were sanded and filed back to flatten the stonework a bit then coated in filler and wiped with kitchen roll to reduce the depth of the mortar lines. 

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I haven't modelled round the back. This will be buried in the landscape.

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Paint does the rest. The brick lining the inside the arch has been added since the photo was taken.

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The bridge will form the scenic break at the left hand end with a country lane over it.

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Station building is underway. It's been a challenge with a fair bit of back and forward mainly because I struggle with weathering. More pics as soon as it's fit for human consumption.

Alan

 

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Magic! Hadn't thought about sanding down Wills random stone, let alone filling the mortar lines, but works really well. There is a clear (and very effective) artistic hand at work, Alan. Only have to look at your other models to see the connection. Proper job.

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10 hours ago, David Holman said:

Magic! Hadn't thought about sanding down Wills random stone, let alone filling the mortar lines, but works really well. There is a clear (and very effective) artistic hand at work, Alan. Only have to look at your other models to see the connection. Proper job.

Thank you David. I find the Wills random stone very versatile stuff which can be made to look very different depending on what you do to it. It also seems to be equally useful in 4mm and 7mm. I used the filler trick quite a bit on The Stone Yard. It's a pity it comes in such small sheets!

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44 minutes ago, Tullygrainey said:

Thank you David. I find the Wills random stone very versatile stuff which can be made to look very different depending on what you do to it. It also seems to be equally useful in 4mm and 7mm. I used the filler trick quite a bit on The Stone Yard. It's a pity it comes in such small sheets!

The Wills "Coarse" Stone SSMP200 used in Alan's bridge is a completely different and much more useful material than their "Random; Stone SSMP228. 

The Coarse Stone is much more prototypical in appearance laid in courses than the 'Random" stone which is random in nature for the entire height of the panel. In reality a mason building a 'random' stone wall would have built the wall in 'courses' of about 2-3' and the horizontal layers would have been visible.

I have used the Wills Coarse stone for building and structures, but as someone with a background in the building trade haven't been able to "build" a convincing wall in coarsed random stone widely used in Irish railway structures.


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Yes 😁 Apologies for causing confusion by calling it by every name but the right one! John is right. I used Wills SSMP200 'Coarse Stone'. I always thought the 'Random Stone' sheets looked a bit odd. I understand why now.

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The coarse stone is wonderful stuff, I just wish they sold it in bigger sheets, until now I didnt know about the random stone, and googling it, it does look rather odd, I think Ill be sticking with the coarse

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On 6/11/2024 at 7:56 PM, Tullygrainey said:

 

 

 

 


 


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 It's been a challenge with a fair bit of back and forward mainly because I struggle with weathering. 

Alan

 

No Alan, you don't seem to struggle with weathering, or anything  else for that matter😃. Absolutely love the bridge. Excellent👏

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3 hours ago, derek said:

No Alan, you don't seem to struggle with weathering, or anything  else for that matter😃. Absolutely love the bridge. Excellent👏

Thanks Derek. Believe me though, I’m not joking. I never feel in control of weathering. I mostly get there in the end but usually by the scenic route, having been round the houses a fair few times. 😀

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I used Neill’s Hill, just over 2 miles out from Queen’s Quay on the BCDR main line through East Belfast, as the basis for a model of a country station building for this layout. The original building is long since demolished though a number of photographs exist. It had a fairly typical BCDR look but with less of the special brickwork on station buildings like Cultra or Carnalea which make them trickier to model well. It's not a slavish copy of Neill's Hill, more a nod in that direction.

The pics are self-explanatory I hope. Brickwork is Slater’s English Bond plasticard, windows, doors and roof tiles came from York Modelmaking and the chimney pots are 3D prints from ModelU.

Paint was applied, removed and re-applied so many times in the course of trying to get the effect I wanted that I reckon the brickwork genuinely is weathered.

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