Hiya,
Sorry i havent posted much about this for a long while, I have been working on it between other projects. Anyway here is the new stuff and the improvements!!
The workmen are busy doing water pipe repairs outside the shed,
The shed has taken a long time to design and about three days to build and it still isnt finished - missing a roof, gutters, window and door frames, main doors, interior fittings and lighting................. thats all still to come..... It also still needs to be plastered into the base but i cant do that untill i have finished the overall building................... It is built from Wills brick and South East Finecast Cladding with the H and I beams from Plastruct and the roof joists being hand made from sheets of plasticard. the entire structure so far consists of just short of 1300 parts.
here some locomotives wait outside the shed - probably for it to be finished..................................
Here the 1960s power box nestles just to one side of the road bridge - built into the rear retaining wall...... I have built the entire interior of the powerbox too and the computer and power board are all lit with miniature LEDs - It is scratchbuilt from wills brick plastics and plastikard........... There is a roadway running underneath as i wanted to build something a little bit different. The Retaining walls are also built from scratch using Slaters Brick sheet and an awful lot of foamboard and superglue!
To break up the monotany of the brick walls i built this pump room into the wall complete with working lights and little pumps , operaters stand and desk!!
Here my only steam engine , an N15 is seen to be passing the older buildings in the island area of the layout.................... the larger building s scratchbuilt from will plastics - brick and the other is part ratio kit which has been heavily altered and had its windows boarded up - i then planted ivy up the walls........
some of my trackwork improvements - the point motors and equipment havent been weathered down here yet........................
and i have added a awful lot more detail most of which i will photograph when i have more time and after the full layout is completed........... its going to be a full 20 foot long now with a 4 foot fiddle yard...................!
Hope you all like it ......................................... It will be attending our model show in peacehaven on october 3rd in peacehaven this year ad hopefully will all be complete ( all 20 foot of it ) and running !!!!!
Nikki
