Plate girder bridge in position
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 Posted in Construction | 5 Comments »It has been a busy few months with Scalescenes and family commitments and I have only just had a chance to finally wire up the underpass lighting and install the weathered plate girder bridges that I completed earlier in the ...
Hairspray weathering
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Construction | 4 Comments »Now to weather the plate girder bridge... As shown in the previous post the starting point was grey primer with a coat of Tamiya Gunship Grey aerosol spray (TS48). I was aiming for something similar to the image below. For ...
A dark underpass
Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in Construction | 19 Comments »One of the things I love about urban railways are the cavernous spaces beneath bridges. Is there anything better than walking under one of these on a cold rainy day and hearing the dripping water and low rumble as a ...
Adding the backscene
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 Posted in Construction | 1 Comment »The backscene seems to be the downfall of many an otherwise superb layout. How many times have you seen high quality modelling spoilt by a poorly painted sky in the background? Even as a professional illustrator, I have never been ...
Returning to the source
Monday, August 4th, 2008 Posted in Construction | 1 Comment »It certainly hasn't been the most productive couple of months for South Oak Road, between house renovations, an overseas trip and an always heavy Scalescenes and freelance illustration workload, the layout has regrettably taken a backseat. Though I must confess ...
Platform construction
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Construction | 6 Comments »I was really looking forward to this part of the construction and have especially wanted to build a bay platform for sometime. Bay platforms have always appealed to me, a great spot to display my collection of parcel related rolling ...
Retaining wall and tunnel construction
Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted in Construction | 1 Comment »I used Scalescenes.com’s R013 Retaining wall and a kit bashed version of the R014 Tunnel kit. Both kits are quite straightforward with clearly illustrated instructions, so I won’t go into too much actual construction detail here. The Retaining wall kit ...
Retaining wall and tunnel foundations
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 Posted in Construction | No Comments »Having completed the main track work (excluding finer details that will be added later such as cable troughing, relay cabinets and point motors) it was into the scenery. Referring back to my original scale plan and 1/10 prototype model I ...
Building the baseboard
Monday, October 8th, 2007 Posted in Construction | 1 Comment »The baseboard structure is basically a three sided box fabricated from 7mm plywood, glued and pinned. Additional rigidity is supplied by a central I-beam also created from the same ply. The whole structure is about half the weight ...
Baseboard construction 1
Friday, August 24th, 2007 Posted in Construction | No Comments »With most of the key features of the layout pinned down I was keen to begin construction. I have to confess that my first attempt at building the baseboards for South Oak Road ended in complete failure! Mark I was ...