4mm Polsarrett: BR(S) N Cornwall Clay, The Final Countdown

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And then outside to action item 1 on the list...



Halfords grey primer on first. Then a waft in places with an off white to represent the clay dust. And finally some contrasting brown for the roof timbers. Nothing too detailed or accurate - I was after an impression only.

In the final 2 photos the front roof is loose and upsidedown to allow the paint to dry.

 

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Now then. Research done on roofs and even back to the 1930s there seems to be a good mix of tiles and corrugated sheet materials used.

On the basis that I can reuse / modify the original KMRC dries roofs, and I can't face separately tiling them, I'm going to go with the sheet option.

Of all the photos I looked at, the one below in the Middleton Press, West Cornwall Mineral Railways book by Maurice Dart (plate 36) caught my eye as worth using as my reference. Dated as 1930s and the location is Carpella siding.

 

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And whilst epoxy is setting on the kilns...

...some Das applied to the road and yard:



I bought the stone variety, on the basis that grey is a good base colour. Will be interesting to see how it dries off.

 

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Talking of which, of no artistic merit whatsoever, but hopefully useful detail, the BWT in the museum at Quainton,

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

 

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Now then, now then.

Chimney stacks.

Part of the reading what I has dun sez that the top 1/3 or so of clay dry chimneys were brick.

Nice.

However, my idea of fun is not trying to make a tapered brick chimney, so...

Kibri to the rescue:


Which is currently in the process of being spliced into the KMRC stone one...

 

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And now, whilst the glue on the chimney sets, some making good of the gable end...

 

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Rock and roll...

 

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The rock in white filler on a white filler background didn't show up very well for some reason, so I've slapped a bit of paint on. Not the finished effort but a good starter for 10...

 

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Shuttering has now gone in for the concrete apron in front of the dries... Das clay, with the level set just below rail level (hopefully).

 

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Just saying........

Any words for this fine mess?:

 

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Bit of an off-board job this afternoon - making up some buffer stops.



Both from Lanarkshire Models & Supplies. The left is kit BS04 for a SR buffer stop with rail replacement buffer beam and the right is an example with the wooden buffer beam BS03.

I've nicked some sleepers of a length of code 75 bullhead flexi to make them up. To keep them electrically dead there's a tissue paper layer between the sides and the buffer beam. I've cut them short to better disguise the join between them and the bog standard Peco code 75.

Just released that the tissue paper was from @LarryG - part of the packaging around a very nice 7mm Lowmac.

 

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A batch of Railtec 3d printed plates and transfers arrived the other day. Must admit, having always previously used etched plates, I was a bit sceptical of what they would look like.

Took the plunge today and renumbered the 8750 as 4666 and the 45xx as 4569.





One of the plates before fitting...


1368 got replacement crests and a Wadebridge shed code.

 

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On a more sensible note, my thoughts have turned to point rodding etc. This is strange because my original thoughts were to have none, as it was to be a quick project.

But...

The signal box front looks a bit empty without any rods and cable runs. And I do like the Modelu stools and cranks. And I needed to know how many levers the box should have (which is something that I should have considered before choosing the size of the box).

So a reasonably quick sketch which was preceded by some refresher reading.



My basic understanding of these matters seems to indicate that about 14 levers is needed.

• 6 for signals (with only the up starter and down home on the board)
• 3 for facing point locks
• 4 for turnouts
• 1 to unlock the gates (not sure if this is needed)

The diagram shows a catch point for the goods siding and this has been installed this afternoon (fake representation). I know there should be another one at the right hand side of the loop road working in tandem with 10 but heavy compression precludes this (unless anyone has a bright idea).

Thoughts welcomed.

 

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To put the diagram in context, here's some photos from a passing plane...



Colour in certain areas is a bit off as there's lots of wet stuff drying. This is all base coat greening which will have patches of static grass applied (when I pluck up the courage to give it a go).

 

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We'll, that's the lighting rig sorted...

 

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Not much time spent in the trainset this week but I have managed to sort the lighting rig out.



Took a reasonable amount of soldering wires on to tiny tags.

The base was made up using 2 layers of foamboard. One sits on top of the layout and the second was shaped to sit inside the front fascia and backscene.



And some colour temp variation...




Although you can't really tell in those photos that one is yellow and the other blue.

And in place on the layout...

 

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Colour blind, me?

 

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So, whilst we wait for learned comment from CK, and update from me.

Greener stuff added to the rear...





















As can be seem from the photos I'm planning on adding a copse of trees in the triangular segment. The woodlands scenics armatures are place holders.

 

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So, the scenics have, in my usual style, proceeded in an organic manner.

I finally decided how to do the significant slope at the coal bin end of the dries.



I'll leave that to dry this week and trim back to suit the interface with the dries building next weekend.

 

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As a note to self (and others if interested), the paints used on the rock are as follows:


First an overall coat of pale umber.



Then varied splodges and washes with mixes of this lot.