Ressaldar
Western Thunderer
Having ordered one when they were first announced, I did not have the heart to cancel it after all this time
and having installed a Zimo MS440C sound decoder (speaker already installed) and changed it's number, thoughts turned to how to display it. I decided that rather than change everything yet again, I would just build a diorama for my den 750 x 300 and at that size, it should not upset the management too much.
Having built the Rail Model Helston signal box, I checked on their website and chose the Helston engine shed, studied a few photos in the Oakwood 'Helston Branch' book as well as a few on Flickr, I worked out that the shed, coaling stage (one of them) and the water tower could fit neatly onto the chosen baseboard size. The water tower was ordered from Skytrex and the coaling stage will be scratch built.
So here we are after a week on and off the bench,
not without the usual trials and tribulations but getting there. The main wall overlays had a problem and hopefully, the postman will be delivering the replacements tomorrow, It is of sandwich construction with the glazing trapped between the layers and the window frames spray painted white before installation. The inner walls and the roof trusses were also spray painted white primer before installation and then dirtied with a couple of wash coats of Tamyia 'Smoke' the louvre blades were left unpainted but had the 'Smoke' treatment after installation. The roof panels will be left until the main wall overlays have been affixed.
In the main, the fit of the stone overlay to the brick overlays is quite good but there are instances of slight gaps and I think that I will run diluted Squadron Putty or the like in the joints and then mask off the windows before spraying the walls and then picking out individual stones. I have been given a coloured photograph of the restored Helston Goods Shed which I will use as a guide but ignore the white brick corner detailing as I have another picture taken just after closure showing that the brickwork was in fact red.
More to come next week.
regards
Mike
and having installed a Zimo MS440C sound decoder (speaker already installed) and changed it's number, thoughts turned to how to display it. I decided that rather than change everything yet again, I would just build a diorama for my den 750 x 300 and at that size, it should not upset the management too much.
Having built the Rail Model Helston signal box, I checked on their website and chose the Helston engine shed, studied a few photos in the Oakwood 'Helston Branch' book as well as a few on Flickr, I worked out that the shed, coaling stage (one of them) and the water tower could fit neatly onto the chosen baseboard size. The water tower was ordered from Skytrex and the coaling stage will be scratch built.
So here we are after a week on and off the bench,
not without the usual trials and tribulations but getting there. The main wall overlays had a problem and hopefully, the postman will be delivering the replacements tomorrow, It is of sandwich construction with the glazing trapped between the layers and the window frames spray painted white before installation. The inner walls and the roof trusses were also spray painted white primer before installation and then dirtied with a couple of wash coats of Tamyia 'Smoke' the louvre blades were left unpainted but had the 'Smoke' treatment after installation. The roof panels will be left until the main wall overlays have been affixed.
In the main, the fit of the stone overlay to the brick overlays is quite good but there are instances of slight gaps and I think that I will run diluted Squadron Putty or the like in the joints and then mask off the windows before spraying the walls and then picking out individual stones. I have been given a coloured photograph of the restored Helston Goods Shed which I will use as a guide but ignore the white brick corner detailing as I have another picture taken just after closure showing that the brickwork was in fact red.
More to come next week.
regards
Mike
