Now we have the pipe delivery system in place taking oil from the inside track and delivering it to both fuel tanks.
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Cardboard Modelling On Barchester
Some of you will already have seen some of these models but because I am so keen on using card as a modelling medium and think that it a much under rated material I like to spread the word among as many people as possible. Especially the young who may not have so much cash to spend and who would like to see what can be done with very little effort and cost. If any interest is shown then I will continue with various models but if not then that is perfectly understandable and the subject will just fade away.
Enough of the blurb and here is the start of a diesel locomotive washing facility. I am not a scale modeller of prototype material as I like designing my own models once I get a general idea of what's needed.
This first photograph shows that model is going to have two tracks, a layby outside the facility, for interior cleaning, and the main track inside. Here you can see that the card platforms are installed and work has started on the support girders. The short length of track is just there for measurement purposes.
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Enough of the blurb and here is the start of a diesel locomotive washing facility. I am not a scale modeller of prototype material as I like designing my own models once I get a general idea of what's needed.
This first photograph shows that model is going to have two tracks, a layby outside the facility, for interior cleaning, and the main track inside. Here you can see that the card platforms are installed and work has started on the support girders. The short length of track is just there for measurement purposes.
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Here's an overhead shot of the unit before the extra pipework is fitted so that fuel can be off loaded from both tracks.
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Now you can see in this picture that the unit is now capable of offloading from rail tankers from either track after the addition of further pipework. The monitoring equipment is now in it's correct place and the delivery pumps, complete with hoses, for fuelling locomotives, are also in position.
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Here's a shot of the Class66 having a go and the warning signs have been added. As a unit it is now fully functional but with more detail still to be added.
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I have now added canopies to the oil off loading points. The chap who actually fills the engines up will have to get wet as two more canopies hide too much detail.
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Showing that the biggest of Barchester's locomotives fits snugly into the new unit. It is completed now except for the ballasting, bit of grass edging and some white fencing, just finished 12 yards of that so there's no shortage, oh, and a timber cross track walkway for the staff.
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This is the final product with everything in place that was mentioned in the previous post. After a few hours effort, absolute minimum cost and a lot of satisfaction I have another model that is unique to Barchester. Not to everyones liking of course, and don't even mention being correct to scale but for me it's a question of making it look right for the part it has to play on Barchester and that's the starting point for everything I build.
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The next project was something totally different and much simpler to make with plain card and some off cuts of square timber. Barchester needed a jetty for it's main canal basin and this was the result. Once more totally freelance without pretentions of being anything otherwise.
In this picture you can see the plain top of the jetty which has been scribed for planking and then coloured with wood dye. The 'legs' are short lengths of square timber.
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In this picture you can see the plain top of the jetty which has been scribed for planking and then coloured with wood dye. The 'legs' are short lengths of square timber.
This is the next stage in the construction where most of the bits and pieces to help complete the model are gathered together. Hand rail and supports, ropes, posts for life savers etc.
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Here you can see that the jetty has had all the bits added to it from the previous photograph plus a few drums and crates. There is much more to add once the model has been installed on the layout and a friend has given me a plastic kit of a crane which should be suitable for the jetty. I am not a lover of plastic kits, much preferring to make my own stuff and having looked at the bits and pieces that make up the kit I cannot see a problem with making them from card.
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Here we have the new plastic crane fitted to the jetty so now the whole thing can be positioned in it's permanent home in the larger of the two canal basins on Barchester. Notice how effective the use of simple materials can be, bits of card, nails, string etc.
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Finally here is the jetty installed in the canal basin. It still awaits more bits, people, fisherman etc but other than that this is how it looks. A very simple thing to make, an excellent starting point for anyone wanting to venture into the world of card construction.
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Further to my remarks a couple or three posts back about making cranes from card, as Barchester needed at least two more of them, here is a picture of how I went about it. On the left is a partially constructed crane and on the right the cut out bits for the identical second one. No problems so far. Components are all card, paper and short lengths of kebab sticks.
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