Help - need small piece of paving

[GNRi1959]

Can anyone help with a small piece of Wils paving approx 90mm x 50mm. I've run out completely and don't want to buy a full pack. The photo will show what I need. This is the only piece of platform left in the layout.Please.

 

Edited February 17, 2017 by TonyMcGartland

[GNRi1959]

PS. Does anyone know the internal sizes of the brick arches in Wills SS55 kit?

[popeye]

How about using a piece of plasticard and scribe the paving lines into it,

Then paint it grey.

[jhb171achill]

Often, the very ends of platforms were gravelled, and later tarmacked. This can still be seen at Cobh. Maybe a bit of cardboard with lightish grey grit as gravel? And weather this plus the tiled surface to match?

[GNRi1959]

I'll hold out, if a bit doesn't turn up I may ask Peco if they have any samples.

[Rialto]

You could shorten the platform to suit the material that you do have.

[GNRi1959]

Its worked out fine, I need a pack to deck another small section of platform that I over-looked and this will be fine now. As for 'shortening a section of platform' I just wouldn't.

[The Derry Road]

Tony let me check out my materials box, I "maybe" able to help you out with surplus that I might have. TDR

[GNRi1959]

TDR, I managed to pick up a pack on eBay - less than the normal price. Thanks for your kind offer anyway.There is a small platform section within the good yard shed that needs modelled with platform and I would need it for this anyway.

[Paddy Mac Namara]

Tony, hi there, i like the look of that platform kit, is it OO do you know wills part number?

cheers

paddy mac

[GNRi1959]

Paddy, tyhis platform is part-commercial part scratch built. I used the Peco stone faced platform edging strips (LK -62), faced with Wills course stone SSMP200 (cut into 15mm strips) and glued direct to the Peco platform edging. When I am happy with the clearances and shape of the edging I stuck it down with UHU glue. When dry, I decked it with Will Victorian paving SSMP221, carefully scribed to fit. It works! Don't forget to throw away those awful printed stone stickers that come with the Peco platform edging.

Edited February 21, 2017 by TonyMcGartland

[Paddy Mac Namara]

cheers tony, any photo on forum of the full platform. its 50 mm wide?

[GNRi1959]

Paddy, it can be as wide as you wish,

[jhb171achill]

On the subject of platforms, in my early model days with an oval of Triang track, an 0.4.0 outline, two trucks and a guard's van, I noticed something in my first Triang Hornby catalogue. It was that most, or at least many, model platforms seem to have tapered ends. I'm not sure why - maybe for flexibility given layout curves in general. They regularly crop up on layouts.

 

It is worth pointing out that both here and in Britain, such things were the exception rather than the rule, even when converging tracks were just off the end of the platform. That at the Loop Platform in Downpatrick (the original BCDR one) is one of the few examples I can think of. Generally, platforms are better having ends the same width as the rest of it.....

[Broithe]

On the subject of platforms, in my early model days with an oval of Triang track, an 0.4.0 outline, two trucks and a guard's van, I noticed something in my first Triang Hornby catalogue. It was that most, or at least many, model platforms seem to have tapered ends. I'm not sure why - maybe for flexibility given layout curves in general. They regularly crop up on layouts.

 

It is worth pointing out that both here and in Britain, such things were the exception rather than the rule, even when converging tracks were just off the end of the platform. That at the Loop Platform in Downpatrick (the original BCDR one) is one of the few examples I can think of. Generally, platforms are better having ends the same width as the rest of it.....

 

The loop platform at Ballybrophy has a slight taper on the outside of the ramps at each end, but it's only following the taper of the platform itself.

[jhb171achill]

You do indeed get the odd one, Broithe..... mostly, though, straight.

[Paddy Mac Namara]

I like tapered platforms...they look neat and tidy.

[GNRi1959]

Do you mean the tapered ends? I think it is essential with some rolling stock that simple need a little extra clearance when entering the station or bays. With Omagh, their were no tapers, the platforms just got narrower in general.