Building a Church

planty · Post by **planty** » Sun Aug 21, 2016 6:43 pm

Jon & Jim, if only I had read your post earlier this week! :D

All the tiles are attached now, I spent a few days in the office this week with blackened fingers!! (thankfully no mishaps around the church, just on my hands). Invested in a box of surgical gloves for next time!

Will put up some posts of the church in situ soon, just got to test a rain shower on it to work out where there needs to be some drainage working into the model.

JCSteam · Post by **JCSteam** » Sun Aug 21, 2016 7:47 pm

By drainage do you mean actual guttering that works? The flat roof parts will be a tough one, as there should be a over shoot to the roof below, then a hopper either end of each apex with a downpipe to the ground, of course on any straight bit of roof striaght guttering with downpipes down the walls will do just fine, have you started ground works on the drains

planty · Post by **planty** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 4:43 pm

Some pictures of the finished build, kind of sad to finish as have enjoyed the build! Need another project now :-)

Just finishing off some drainage through the towers and then it'll have it's permanent place in the garden.

JCSteam · Post by **JCSteam** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 4:59 pm

I'm in awe!!!! That is amazing

TonyW · Post by **TonyW** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 5:01 pm

Superb!

planty · Post by **planty** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 5:32 pm

JCSteam:119603 wrote:By drainage do you mean actual guttering that works? The flat roof parts will be a tough one, as there should be a over shoot to the roof below, then a hopper either end of each apex with a downpipe to the ground, of course on any straight bit of roof striaght guttering with downpipes down the walls will do just fine, have you started ground works on the drains :lol: ;)

As you can see from the finished pictures on the previous page I went for drainage channels on the lower roof to shift as much water from the roofs off the side.

The flat roof I'm not too worried about as there are gaps round the edge and the model if hollow so it shouldn't trap standing water.

The towers have a drainage hole in the centre of the top and then holes at the base.

I thought about putting some drain pipes in (I did on my station built a few years back), but if you look at photos of the real church a lot of the water was just dispersed outwards rather than taken down drain pipes. I thought about doing this for the towers too but decided it would be too fiddly! :D

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 8:37 pm

What an incredible structure that has turned out to be. Loads of detail and closely following the original so as to be easily recognisable.
It must be huge, please show us what it looks like on the railway.

tom_tom_go · Post by **tom_tom_go** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 9:23 pm

Just caught up with this, amazing.

It looks to me like it belongs in a war diorama with a Tiger tank positioned next to it!

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 9:28 pm

Gosh - that will certainly have presence out in the garden!
What an incredible structure!

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 9:41 pm

Wonderful Job and a great memorial to a building now demolished.

LNR · Post by **LNR** » Mon Aug 29, 2016 12:16 am

I can only second what has already been said. That is a building which will certainly have a deserving presence on the railway. A credit to the work you have put in.
Grant.

IrishPeter · Post by **IrishPeter** » Mon Aug 29, 2016 5:56 am

As someone who is professionally over acquainted with churches I can tell thee that tha's done a bang-up job on that one, Planty!

Peter in AZ

Post by **ge_rik** » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:07 am

Wow!!
I can just imagine this on a hill with a railway winding around it - as per Blythburgh on the Southwold.

Rik

Post by **philipy** » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:22 am

Phenominal, well done. Like the others, I can't wait to see a shot of it in situ.

planty · Post by **planty** » Sun Oct 30, 2016 5:35 pm

Took a while, but here it is in situ with some modeltown figures.

Holding up well to the weather, might need a little bit of maintenance to change the roof material on the small flat areas behind the towers but apart from that the foamboard is doing well.

planty · Post by **planty** » Sun Oct 30, 2016 5:37 pm

p.s. the white streaks on the right tower isn't the paint weathering badly. No that's the birds getting rid of all the digested seeds that my wife insists on feeding them!

tom_tom_go · Post by **tom_tom_go** » Sun Oct 30, 2016 5:45 pm

Great work, I like the look of that diesel as well.

Do you have any videos of it running by any chance please?

Post by **philipy** » Sun Oct 30, 2016 6:31 pm

That looks really good, well done.
Is that a clock on the LH tower? If so you need another one of Peter Butler's Chinese watches!

planty · Post by **planty** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 7:45 pm

tom_tom_go:120680 wrote:Great work, I like the look of that diesel as well.

Do you have any videos of it running by any chance please?

You know what I don't think I do, next time I have it running I'll take some footage and post it up here!

planty · Post by **planty** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 7:53 pm

philipy:120682 wrote:Is that a clock on the LH tower? If so you need another one of Peter Butler's Chinese watches!

It is, I must be missing something here though "Chinese watches"??

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