7mm SARSDEN. A GWR fictitious terminus diorama layout.

[John TAYLOR]

The track and ballasting look excellent, John. Mind if I ask what paint colour you used on the rails?
Ian

Sorry it`s taken so long to reply Ian.....life got in the way.
Regarding the paint colour I saved a lot of time by using the three enamel track colours from Phoenix/ Precision applied with an airbrush the rails being hand painted.

 

[John TAYLOR]

Over the last few days I have reclaimed electrical track supply by carefully removing the paint from the rail heads.

I have also bedded in the cattle dock .





Today my kit built GWR 1930/31 loco collection was on duty. It has been the very first track test for the railmotor.



A video will follow....

 

[John TAYLOR]

A rather amateur video but never mind as both the track and the Railmotor have achieved a good standard of performance on 32mm track.

 

[jonte]

A nostalgic scene beautifully modelled and which runs as well as it looks. The uncluttered backscene is an excellent decision, John, which adds to the realism, IMHO, and gives it a sense of place. Looks like a photo of the real thing from Stephen Williams’ excellent Branch Line modelling series of books.

Thanks for sharing.

Jonte

 

[GrahameH]

As I have mentioned elsewhere this is a real credit to you and the time you've spent to get it all to this stage, beautiful running on the finished Railmotor.

G

 

[John TAYLOR]

Last evening it was on to 1934.

The Railmotor is no more.... having been converted into an auto-coach.

Due to the financial situation, however, there is rumour of reducing passenger services and the introduction of diesel services.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Due to the financial situation, however, there is rumour of reducing passenger services and the introduction of diesel services.

I don't think you'd have the heart to fast forward, single the track, remove the yard and install lofty lamps together with a battered bus shelter on a weed strewn platform

 

[John TAYLOR]

I don't think you'd have the heart to fast forward, single the track, remove the yard and install lofty lamps together with a battered bus shelter on a weed strewn platform

Oh no ! Not that far forward. Real weeds never grew at Sarsden until the end of the war. The GWR at Sarsden has handsome Diesels.

1936 0nwards a little....................




.................. and then 1942 onwards.

 

[simond]

They’re all lovely, but the railmotor wins hands down.

 

[D602bulldog]

Very nice what are the dimensions of the layout stock is very nice.

 

[John TAYLOR]

Very nice what are the dimensions of the layout stock is very nice.

Thanks

The scenic section is 13 feet long by 2 feet wide and is 18 feet long when the fiddle yard is attached.

 

[John TAYLOR]

I have put all my trains away again to get back to adding static grass.

Having read up on all the best scenic literature available to us RM`s I`v got on with using my Flockit to lay mixtures of 2mm grasses and then carefully overlaying longer 4 to 6mm . I`ve settled on using Heki and Noch products with Mini-natur as further variation in places.

The emphasis at the moment is working from the back of the diorama using colours to try and keep distant perspective if possible.




I`m fairly pleased with, what is, my first attempt with static grass.

At the moment I have not added weeds and shrubs etc as these will need careful thought regarding colour and size so as not to alter the feeling of
distance.

 

[John TAYLOR]

This week end has seen the upgrading of a fiddle yard for Sarsden, so that I can play trains on fair weather days, as this has to be positioned outside the shed.









I`d actually built this back in my 4mm days in 2008 and thanks to Intentio products converting it for use at Sarsden has been fairly simple.





I`ve now got to think about adding power to these units..........

 

[John TAYLOR]

The old codger has been learning new tricks today.

Discovered that by just purchasing an NCE USB interface I could connect my NCE power cab to my Laptop and then use my android phone and ipad as wifi controllers............... so there is life in the old dog yet awhile.

 

[simond]

What software/app on the iPad please, John?

ta
Simon

 

[John TAYLOR]

What software/app on the iPad please, John?

ta
Simon

Hi simon,
My Ipad is Android so it has to be Engine Driver.

John

 

[simond]

Ta,

My iPad is an iPad .

I have Touchcab, which is in principle supported, but the support is not obvious, particularly if you don’t do Facebook. It appears it’s owned by KMS railtech, but the dates on the webpages are years out of date.

cheers
Simon

 

[John TAYLOR]

This weekend I blew the dust off some tree making stuff.

After much experimentation I`ve come up with this ` tree with twigs ` look before I add any foliage.

 

[Pencarrow]

This weekend I blew the dust off some tree making stuff.

After much experimentation I`ve come up with this ` tree with twigs ` look before I add any foliage.


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How have you done that then, looks interesting.

 

[John TAYLOR]

How have you done that then, looks interesting.

Thanks Chris,

I`m on the hunt for that ` light and airy` tree and foliage look.... not quite there yet but using these ingredients I think there is much potential.



The grass fibres on this Heki product are attached to virtually invisible netting which can be prized apart to give various densities.

I fabricated a tree from natural products using superglue (Gorilla Glue) attached the tweaked `grassed netting` and then over sprayed it all with
with Halfords Acrylic brick red rattle can.

Once dry I then airbrushed it all with a very thin application of Revell matt No 89 stone with 25% Revell matt black,

The next move will be selecting foliage products and colours.