Wood End and Beyond
Modeller, writer, blogger and professional muso.
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Wednesday 25 September 2024
Concrete hut
Yes more crazy old stuff. ref. the post below, a tally hut for the private siding. The cognoscenti will recognise this as not being an expensive etched brass kit, and for me points out exactly what is wrong with the hobby; we're getting so the high cost and the new have become more important than polishing what is already out there. (tap, tap). It is of course, one of these...
The very long in the tooth Hornby, nee Triang, turntable motor covering hut. The window frames aside it is a very crisp detailed moulding and with a bit of gentle alteration and paint comes out quite well. These are ubiquitous in rummage boxes at exhibitions and can be pence to purchase. Play that against the equivalent P*c* kit at about £4 and you're on a winner. In a few short moments this will be installed on Rhiw 2 where no one will see it.
Tuesday 24 September 2024
Fences
After a week in the sun, where I actually got some modelling done, it's back to the workbench. However this is not all moving in a linear fashion and I was minded to move away from the new project for a bit and get a couple of things done on Rhiw 2. This was far from urgent, but the stuff is floating around and I was in the mood to do it.
The private siding area has always been slightly vague and needed the viewer and operator to use a deal of imagination as to where all this stuff was going and why. It needed some sort of essential physical marking to show that stock was leaving the mainline and going somewhere else. Fences and gates are great for this, so here we are. Some Maquett mesh was cut on the diagonal and thin posts added from 20thou strip, with a couple of repairs added in. Posts and gate are Ratio and from Nigel's bottomless pile of bits. The tally hut to do and some light clutter to throw around. Understand that most of this will be hidden behind the bank and is therefore a waste of effort.