7mm Millicent Street

[Rippers]

With the finish of the buildings for this area more or less complete we are now able to see if what we have created (mainly on several scattered workbenches many miles apart) gives us the sort of look we initially had in mind when it is brought together.

 

[Quintus]

That is quite superb.

 

[Jordan]

That is quite superb.

To the point of either providing inspiration to improve one's own efforts - or just giving up entirely!!

 

[Rippers]

 

[Purple-haze]

At last, something to lighten the gloom of the past months! This is my favourite .layout, it just ticks all the boxes for me. Regards Rog

 

[Rippers]

The opportunity to bring the nearly finished structures together at the right hand end of the layout. Also saw the first chance of trialling the more modern factory structure (still partly at mockup stage) that will form the backdrop to the left hand end of the visible scene.

 

[Barnaby]

I have not been following "Millicent Street" for some time but have just visited it again...........wow it is even better than I recall.
I'll have to find where I had previously followed to and then read up on all the intervening progress.

Fabulous modelling Rippers.

 

[Rippers]

With the addition of the now finished canopy over the factory loading bay the structures of this end of the layout are now complete (one day they may even be glued in place!) and we can finally see if they give us the back street industrial look we wanted.

 

[Rippers]

Same view from a more of a model railway perspective....highlighting the unfinished bits.

 

[Alan]

I certainly think they give a back street view.

 

[MartinWales]

Like the nice shiny new Austin Cambridge making an excellent contrast with the urban grot!

 

[Rippers]

A rare chance for a few of us who have been working remotely to meet up to confer on and exchange ongoing projects (which is the nearest we get to actually working on the layout these days). Also had the advantage of us being able to see how the now (almost) completed factory building intended to form the backdrop to the left hand end of the layout will look like in place.

Still, a way to go though.

 

[LarryG]

This is one superb piece of railway modelling. A lot of work went into painting those mineral wagons.

 

[Rippers]

With the massive monolyth of a 1950s factory now finally vacated my workbench things can retun to normal and I can now return to finishing some of the older and smaller structures.
Including adding and then aging some signage.

Not finished yet but starting to look the part.

 

[Osgood]

Fascinating oval toplight (?) detail above the doors - still to be seen in 'ull?

 

[Rippers]

Fascinating oval toplight (?) detail above the doors - still to be seen in 'ull?

Yes, they can still be seen in a few places (old dock offices and the like). Hull has quite an array of window styles in its older architecture (including England's smallest window which is located in the Land of Green Ginger!)

Though inspired by a long gone local structure we had a photo of. This building actually owes a lot to the very similar and still extant 'Tonks' building in Scarborough.

The model itself uses a custom etch one of our group created for both the window and its decorative surround.

 

[Rippers]

A couple of overhead shots showing how the layout is changing now the paint factory buildings which form the backdrop to the entire scene have been finally fixed and bedded into place.

What we were aiming for from the start with this layout was to create a model of a local (to us) urban scene with the railway in it rather than a model of the railway in an urban scene.

Still lots to be completed (not to mention that the layout is still bare baseboards at the left hand end).

 

[Rippers]

Away from the slow progress on the layout progress is also been made on a good selection of period stock. Including this bogie bolster C.

 

[Purple-haze]

Seeing this back again has made my day! Love it.

Regards Rog

 

[Rippers]

Ahead of the Bogie Bolster C in terms of completion we also have this Thompson BZ. Which has completed the initial paint stage.