7mm Layouts and Dioramas by Stephen Fay Weymouth coal stage and St Stephen’s bank

[Compton castle]

Another pass of mid green foliage completes another tree, I’ve added some Ivy growing up the trunk as well.
Just paid a £77 custom fee on my delivery of MBR trees which should be here very soon so instead of ordering in bulk to save on postage I’ll be ordering in smaller batches from now on as my first order came through with no charges!!

 

[Compton castle]

Customs charges or not MBR trees are superb

 

[Compton castle]

Adding some more thick bushes baby trees and the Great Westerns favourite Tree the Scott’s pine on to the scenic boards this evening.

 

[Compton castle]

 

[Compton castle]

Next job is to get the wall covering on using Kirtley models weathered concrete and some coping stones.

 

[john lewsey]

Nice Steve

 

[Compton castle]

Another Dapol MK1 brake has arrived and some additional MBR bushes completes the scenics on the first board.

 

[Compton castle]

A few more spruce trees arrived from GModelscenics and these complete the scenics on board 2, if I can I will start construction on the third board later this week.

 

[LarryG]

Very realistic ground work and trees. Your scenic effects are very impressive. Also the maroon Mk.I behind the 'Castle'. Its windows do not exhibit the lozenge appearance first seen on Kitmaster in the early 1960's. Glad its sorted.

 

[Captain Kernow]

Absolutely wonderful work, Steve!

 

[Compton castle]

Track down on the second baseboard today after my delivery finally arrived from C&L, This batch is now moulded in brown and the mouldings seem a lot crisper than the last box I had which was looking a little worn out.
Peco flat bottom on the mains bull head on the relief, looks like a recent sleeper replacement repair has taken place

 

[Captain Kernow]

Looks like it's been raining as well?

 

[Compton castle]

Yes it has! I brush PVA and then sprinkle over sand and give it a mist from a water bottle to hep bond the sand in place,
Soldered up the track joints and tested it with my Hall This evening. I Need to wait for a delivery of spray paint from Howes before I can progress with the track work.

 

[Compton castle]

Track base sprayed up with Howes sleeper dirt and the ballast laid.

 

[Compton castle]

Whilst the sun was out drying the ballast I thought I would get both castles out for a few pictures, 5099 is due to have a repaint later this year as it sustained some damage to the tender side. Here she is along with 5043.

 

[Alan]

The slight damage looked almost prototypical.

 

[Compton castle]

That’s exactly what my dad Keeps saying but there is quite a crack in the paint work and it will fall of at some point as up close you can see it’s delaminated.
she was painted in Chris Wesson’s BR green which has a more yellow tone similar to GWR green and has bothered me for quite some time as she doesn’t quite match up to my other locos.

 

[Compton castle]

Printed out the Kirtley models rendered concrete last night on decent photographic card and glued in place with spray mount.
It’s a great finish, I’ll add some capping stones along the top next.

 

[cbrailways]

Hi Steve. Which photographic card have you used? I'm looking to print some Scalescenes models and direct printing to card might be better than sticking paper prints to a seperate card base.

 

[Compton castle]

Hi Steve. Which photographic card have you used? I'm looking to print some Scalescenes models and direct printing to card might be better than sticking paper prints to a seperate card base.

This is what I’ve used