4mm Life in a Northern Town - back to back(scene)

[Neil]

Against my better judgement I've been cutting and sticking cardboard together for the light railway platform. I worry about damp in the garage but I thought that if I sealed the card with paint it stood a fair chance of surviving; also I hadn't sufficient plasticard for both the platform and the next building I want to make. I've used mount board, scribed to represent the planked edge, stuck together with UHU and then sprayed with Halfords grey primer (upper face) and matt black (everything else). Here it is being test fitted.





It then came inside to be painted and have the brick plinths fitted. The plinths are plastic faced with off cuts from a Triang brick viaduct.



The dark space between the plinths only extends back by about 8mm, these spaces will be filled with weeds and ground cover to mirror the style of the DVLR seen here in this image of York - Layerthorpe station.

 

[Neil]

I've done quite a lot of making over the past few months, am I allowed to do a bit of shopping too? OK, here's what turned up in the post this week.



Well I couldn't resist, a loco so closely identified with York for a layout inspired by my childhood memories of York and supplied by the brilliant Monk Bar Model Shop in York. All I need now is a Yorkie bar to go with an afternoon cup of Yorkshire Tea.

 

[Neil]

Back with making, my latest project which will sit just to the right of Stubbs is another iconic York building, Burley's fruit and veg warehouse.



It won't be an exact copy as I wanted to use the Ratio GWR signal box windows but I'm confident that it will capture the lovely art deco feel of the original.

 

[Neil]

Ok, so after a bit more work yesterday afternoon and this morning the construction phase was done. I took the building out to the layout in the garage so I could see how it was shaping up.



I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out and how it fits into the scene. Though the whole row looks very low relief in this shot I'm reasonably sure that once I've painted the background silhouette they will be far less obviously flat.

 

[Neil]

And here goes with the background silhouette.

First the rough sketch ...




.... transferred to a lining paper cut out .....







.... which was then drawn round in pencil ....




.... and coloured in with the same paint mix used for other areas of the backscene.







The finished item.

 

[simond]

It is very effective.

 

[Neil]

Thank you Simon.

 

[simond]

the approach may well be copied…

(eventually, some water will pass under the bridge beforehand)

 

[Tim Hale]

The grey background is perfect for northern Europe, which is unremittingly dull for 85% of the year. My backscene for the micro is simply three sheets of foamboard, joined on the back with Gorilla Duct tape and held in place by bulldog clips. The entire backscene is instantly removable and folds flat for transit.

I like the use of ‘granite grey’ having used some rather posh emulsion from Fired Earth to both seal the rather porous roadbed surface and introduce the ‘theme’ of industrial misery.

Tim

 

[timbowales]

And here goes with the background silhouette.

First the rough sketch ...

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.... transferred to a lining paper cut out .....

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.... which was then drawn round in pencil ....

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.... and coloured in with the same paint mix used for other areas of the backscene.


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The finished item.

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I wonder if it could be used for welsh valleys.......
Watch this space

 

[Richard Gawler]

I think this approach is marvellous for modelling a location where you know something was there, you know roughly what it was, you have no photographs, and it is since demolished. Thank you so much for sharing.

 

[Alan]

Something I did with my 11year olds years ago when I was a teacher on similar lines.