Celbridge

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Thanks MikeO

really appreciate the encouragement

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Latest developments, wanted to do something in this corner, so opted for a tunnel and this will allow me to create more landscape on top and town/village scene

spent a good bit of time just thinking about how i would do the road ramp 

[Paddy Mac Namara]

work on tunnel mouth and landscaping

and this area on station upside needed attention

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Thanks for likes and wows.

[murphaph]

The hedging looks very well. 

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Thanks murph it's NOCH

[Paddy Mac Namara]

In case anyone is interested in how I made the wall along the ramp.

I sieve normal builders sand into 3 grades. Larger pebbles for the wall, next for ballast along track and the finer stuff for general scatter between tracks.

The wall is 15mm high by about 10mm deep. I make a mould with two pieces of wood. I smear a layer of vaseline on the wood and the ceramic base (learn’t this the hard way) to stop the wall sticking to it.

Spoon in the stones and then soak in 50/50 water/pva mix. It takes about a week to dry, but even still I will need a day in the open air to dry properly.

[Paddy Mac Namara]

I added an elevated section to the remaining corner of the layout, so I have a tunnel which gives a scenic break. I used the area on top to create and town and country scene, I have been working on this since just after christmas. Lots of detailing still to do, but the core of the work is complete.

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Thanks for all the wows and likes, any questions feel free.

[jhb171achill]

Your walls are an absolute stroke of genius. I will employ that method when I get round to scenery, and no need to paint it!

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Video tour around the layout.

 

[jhb171achill]

Love the dinosaur!

[Broithe]

A tank in the town square suggests Celbridge can be a bit rough at the weekends?

[Paddy Mac Namara]

yeah the tank is one of those airfix kits you get in lidl every so often, i've a spitfire hanging from the ceiling, i think we all cut our teeth making those kits, saving up the old pocket money.

I used to do dioramas with tanks and the soldiers. So i got a pack of 1/72 scale soldiers and might paint them up next winter and was thinking of doing a battle scene in the village....

not so sure about it now with a real war unfolding in front of us, seems a bit tasteless.

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Quite a long break since my last post. I usually work on the layout during the dark winter evenings.

However, this “season” I had a knee joint replacement in late november, so not too much done, until the past few weeks.

One job that I’d been putting off, became a necessity. I always used to crawl under the lifting flap at the door, the wiring was a mess, see photo, and reconnecting all 10 wires across the gap was not an easy job. But with the knee, my crawling days are over in the medium term, so I had to come up with a solution so that I could run trains.

I got some quick release connectors on amazon and set to work. Number all the wires and even coloured coded them. It works and just takes a couple of minutes to connect up.

More updates to follow.

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Some ground cover done, ballasting and Dapol church added to town scene.

Before and after Videos to illustrate and some photos.

 

 

[Paddy Mac Namara]

And the after video

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 4, 2023 by Paddy Mac Namara
wasn't happy with the quality of the photos

[Flying Snail]

hmmm .... something seems not quite right, but I can't put my finger on it

Which reminds me: 

What do you call someone who put their right hand in the mouth of a T-Rex?
Lefty

Edited April 3, 2023 by Flying Snail

[David Holman]

And the one eyed dinosaur - doyouthinkhesaurus.

[Paddy Mac Namara]

sorry might seem confusing what i'm doing just re did the photos and deleted old ones

[jhb171achill]

LOVE the dinosaur!

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Thanks guys for likes and comments, the T Rex just keeps popping up in my photos!!!!, a bit like the elf on the shelf. What i love about our hobby is we can create a "world" and its our story.

Some of you might get a kick out of this video story i made......not quite the right time of year, but what the hay.