Ressaldar
Western Thunderer
Almost two years ago I started a thread - Kender Street, a 4 mm 'straight out of the box' working diorama for my den in the house as a foil to my usual 7mm efforts. Apart from laying a third rail, a vehicle barrier and a portacabin, it has remained untouched.
I fired the Mojo gun in the workshop a couple of months ago and took up the 7mm track in readiness for a new layout to get underway in the spring. A few weeks later, our youngest grandchildren visited and were disappointed when I told them that they could not see the trains in the garage. Knowing that I would not have anything running in the garage by the time of their next visit - the family Christmas gathering on 27th December I decided to re-do the working diorama into a simple three track fuelling facility using the same baseboards and sector plate arrangement.
So this is where we are now
the overall scene
The portacabins are by Mike Green and waiting for me to fabricate a suitable staircase. The window opening in the lower unit are 'boarded up' as it is used as a store. The fuel tanks are by Skytrex and await their pipework to be fitted and the pumphouse is by Bachmann - their lineside hut.
The concrete apron is made of mounting card in the '6 foot' and a 'Das' equivalent in the '4 foot' the base coat awaiting weathering is warm grey acrylic. Pumping unit is by Bachmann. The three pieces of track are C&L. The plywood baseboard will be suitably covered once I decide whether to put an Engineer's platform along the front edge, along from the bridge to include an end loading dock adjacent to the pump house - all to give the cramped 'inner-town' effect.
The backscene arches are Sktyrex while the bridge side is my 'take' on a steel side, using South East Finecast 'wriggly tin' on a foamboard core sitting on a foamboard concrete slab edged with a piece of trimmed 10mm plasticard angle, the coping is by BrushType4 surplus from my new layout in the workshop. The white brick panel will be painted to match the rest of the brickwork - it is on the second board but I feel that it (and its mate on this side) does give a little bit of continuity.
The sector plate is lined up by the Mk 1 eyeball. It is pivoted by a 6mm bolt (just below the red lead) and 'slides' on layers of 6mm acrylic sheet.
Much still to do, but the main thing was to have something running for the 27th - it was - but you guessed it, model railways are no match for Octonaughts - Bah humbug
cheers
Mike
I fired the Mojo gun in the workshop a couple of months ago and took up the 7mm track in readiness for a new layout to get underway in the spring. A few weeks later, our youngest grandchildren visited and were disappointed when I told them that they could not see the trains in the garage. Knowing that I would not have anything running in the garage by the time of their next visit - the family Christmas gathering on 27th December I decided to re-do the working diorama into a simple three track fuelling facility using the same baseboards and sector plate arrangement.
So this is where we are now
the overall scene
The portacabins are by Mike Green and waiting for me to fabricate a suitable staircase. The window opening in the lower unit are 'boarded up' as it is used as a store. The fuel tanks are by Skytrex and await their pipework to be fitted and the pumphouse is by Bachmann - their lineside hut.
The concrete apron is made of mounting card in the '6 foot' and a 'Das' equivalent in the '4 foot' the base coat awaiting weathering is warm grey acrylic. Pumping unit is by Bachmann. The three pieces of track are C&L. The plywood baseboard will be suitably covered once I decide whether to put an Engineer's platform along the front edge, along from the bridge to include an end loading dock adjacent to the pump house - all to give the cramped 'inner-town' effect.
The backscene arches are Sktyrex while the bridge side is my 'take' on a steel side, using South East Finecast 'wriggly tin' on a foamboard core sitting on a foamboard concrete slab edged with a piece of trimmed 10mm plasticard angle, the coping is by BrushType4 surplus from my new layout in the workshop. The white brick panel will be painted to match the rest of the brickwork - it is on the second board but I feel that it (and its mate on this side) does give a little bit of continuity.
The sector plate is lined up by the Mk 1 eyeball. It is pivoted by a 6mm bolt (just below the red lead) and 'slides' on layers of 6mm acrylic sheet.
Much still to do, but the main thing was to have something running for the 27th - it was - but you guessed it, model railways are no match for Octonaughts - Bah humbug
cheers
Mike
