7mm Corwen Road

LarryG

Western Thunderer
Llew the Lamp told BR's painters his hut was hot enough in summer without slapping tar-black all over it. So it remained in GWR stone and steadily deteriorated...
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I poured BR red oxide in Howes GWR light stone and dark stone and took it from there....
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I cannot make my mind up on whether it will go on the platform....
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....Or trackside...
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paulc

Western Thunderer
If you think about it Larry , that platform seat in front of the smelly old hut would never get used by everyone in their best clobber . It looks better by the track as well . Great job mate .
 

LarryG

Western Thunderer
Illuminating might be used to describe the difference a few gas lamps can make to a station. My platforms are foreshortened and so the lamp posts were spaced 14 inches apart. I think in real life they would work out at around 18 inches in 7mm scale....
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I may put a lamp partway down the path to the Up platform.......
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The path to the Down platform well illuminated...
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I'm afraid this picture displays unfinished scenery, but a least it shows the camber on the headshunt...
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LarryG

Western Thunderer
The SanCheng 4F was tarted up and repainted & weathered on my WB thread, but a couple of photos are posted here on the layout...
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I was dead lucky with this Midland Railway-built 4F, as the real 43981 was a 6G Llandudno Junction engine and appears in Bill Rear's 'Corwen to Rhyl' book (Foxline) shunting on the Ruthin branch at Gwyddelwern just outside Corwen on 14th May 1958. Beaded splashers were dispensed with on LMS-built 4F's.....
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Andy P

Western Thunderer
I had the Bachmann Brassworks one Larry, and that ran and looked a treat, but a lot heavier weathered than your masterpiece.

BTW, is a bit of your front coupling missing?
 

LarryG

Western Thunderer
This was to have been a blow-by-blow account, but without instructions I was immersed in hopefully putting the right things in the right places. Seen below awaiting roofing slates. Rafters are supposed to peg into those holes in the roof, but I ran into trouble here and so the roof was glued to the rafters after removing the pegs. Other alterations included a new door step....

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The window sill was chamfered as I had done on other buildings. I made ridge tiles from plasticard....
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