Meanwhile closer to home I seem to have got the hang of 1:1 scale weathering
Saturday, 26 March 2016
1:1 Scale Low Relief
It took me awhile to spot it when photographing this building in Horncastle
Meanwhile closer to home I seem to have got the hang of 1:1 scale weathering
Meanwhile closer to home I seem to have got the hang of 1:1 scale weathering
Monday, 7 March 2016
Viewpoints
In my last post I mentioned how important viewpoints are to the success of a model of Cadeby. Whilst looking up something completely different on Chris Ford's brilliant blog I came across an excellent example of the type of viewpoint I had in mind. I've edited it slightly to bring it in line with the scenes I'm trying to capture.
So imagine this with a shed on the right hand side and an overgrown fence running down the left, or the loco disappearing between a large tree on either side into a wooded area bounded on one side by a road and on the other a garden.
So imagine this with a shed on the right hand side and an overgrown fence running down the left, or the loco disappearing between a large tree on either side into a wooded area bounded on one side by a road and on the other a garden.
Saturday, 5 March 2016
Cadeby: The Track Plan
Somewhere in the back of one of the sheds I hope there is still some ancient Eggerbahn track from the OO9 layout I built with my brother and father in the seventies. If not I'm going to have a major think. I've considered Shinohara HOn2.5 but I believe that isn't compatible with some chassis. I have built OO9 track in the past but I want to avoid that if I possibly can given that I'm working on a corner of my desk and without access to most of my toolbox. Incidentally a kit for a 7 1/4" gauge point arrived this week, but that is a different story altogether.
In any case I'm still far from certain of how to make best use of the space, or even which axis to choose as the front. Here are a couple of options but I've been doodling others.
What makes this difficult, I've decided, is that what made Cadeby successful despite the small size of the site was that it presented you with a number of set viewpoints, from most of which the rest of the line wasn't visible. There was the view from the churchyard, framed by tombstones, the view looking the other way from the other end of the shed, the view of the sidings, the track disappearing into the woods, and so on.
In theory these should lend themselves to a micro layout, but combining more than a couple of them is quite hard, and because they are well known scenes they need to be relatively recognisable. I'm obviously not going to be able to incorporate all of them.
So much pondering still to be done.
In any case I'm still far from certain of how to make best use of the space, or even which axis to choose as the front. Here are a couple of options but I've been doodling others.
What makes this difficult, I've decided, is that what made Cadeby successful despite the small size of the site was that it presented you with a number of set viewpoints, from most of which the rest of the line wasn't visible. There was the view from the churchyard, framed by tombstones, the view looking the other way from the other end of the shed, the view of the sidings, the track disappearing into the woods, and so on.
In theory these should lend themselves to a micro layout, but combining more than a couple of them is quite hard, and because they are well known scenes they need to be relatively recognisable. I'm obviously not going to be able to incorporate all of them.
So much pondering still to be done.
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
A Smaller Box.
....containing this
As a comparison I ordered it in White Flexible Plastic , but clearly it is going to take a little more work to prepare it for painting
As a comparison I ordered it in White Flexible Plastic , but clearly it is going to take a little more work to prepare it for painting
