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Back to the FBGR. Here is the latest, with the replaced section of decking backed up by the re-painted factory background and the loco shed replaced (in a slightly revised location / orientation) with track going into same. DSCF4373.jpg Now we can start to fill in the places round the shed and track...

Your original post asked for a chart of available colours.

The table / list as supplied in http://www.paint4models.com/ would appear to cover most of the paints available.

JOhn

I bought the "creosote" from the local real ironmonger - one of very few left. It smells and feels right, even down to having to shake the container to incorporate some sludge in the bottom, although the lable may not have the "creosote" name. I will get a pic of the container ne...

The loco shed area has been re-decked in treated timber as before. DSCF4287 resized.jpg Proper creosote was used, nice and smelly. This area is strong enough to be able to walk on – necessary while attaching the fence buildings/laying track etc. The fence plastic retaining wall and the Post hotel ha...

Dear LNR, We had been aware for a couple of years that some of the early timber-work on the FBGR had been deteriorating, and we had done some patch repairs to keep it looking tidy, but the collapse of one abutment where we have a lift-out bridge meant that we could no longer run trains over the whol...

Another little building was taken down to the FBGR today, and the area of recently renewed decking is gradually becoming more populated. This time something new (for me) was a corrugated iron shed. This was made using aluminium from backing trays, corrugated and formed over a foamboard and plasicard...

There is some good stuff out there, and if you don’t despair at never being able to get any where near the quality of these, you might just get a little inspiration. Here is a couple more: http://www.boredpanda.com/realistic-miniature-rooms-museum-cinema-dan-ohlman-france/ http://www.modvid.com.au/h...

Yes markoteal, I could do that, and it would probably be best as a separate topic – next time I start something mainly foamboard perhaps, although the story of me filling up my scrap-bin until I have enough pieces that happen to fit together, and then slowly spilling paint over it may not suit every...

Yes Rik, and playing around with the different inserts can give you a few different finishes.

Don't start with a whole building, just do a bit of a wall to get the feel of the stuff, as here,
JOhn

Dear Rik

See page one

JOhn

The Goo I use to stick foamboard to foamboard and plasicard to foamboard is Wickes Solvent Cement, made for sticking together plastic RWPs – you have to ask for it as it is kept behind the counter. Its about £4 for 125ml pot – it goes un-runny in the pot quite quickly if you leave the cap off. Here ...

Last week a new building was completed – generally in German style to suit most of the other structures on the FBGR - built in foamboard with plasticard details as usual. DSCF4248.JPG This week we were able to ballast the recently rebuilt area – resin bound 2mm green granite stuck down with SBR. DSC...

Today the bridge abutments were fitted. And this is what it looks like when the bridge is not in place
Next should be the track ballasting of this area, and maybe a little building in the Y.

JOhn

The rebuilt bridge middle bit was fitted yesterday, and it fits nicely. I was able to retain the original stiffened plywood centre support with the tracks on it and just had to make a new arch bit to underneath (which does not support any weight) and some cladding to the parapet – all in foamboard w...

Some of the Fleecy Bunnies Garden Railway's Fence Buildings, all built from Plasticard, have been out there summer and winter since 2010, and there has never been any problems with the solvent glue joints. In those days I tended to use just the Humbrol Precision Poly Cement: nowadays I use the Humbr...

Its been a little time since I reported – but we have not been completely idle. We started the Fleecy Bunnies Garden Railway in 2004 (thirteen years ago!), and we are now finding that some of the construction work under-taken in the first couple of years was not good enough. We were keen to get ever...

I have found a use for the roof left over from the POLA crane (see http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/about7810.html&highlight=&sid=7849995f13d92ba1b56ebda29b8ba0e8). It had to be tidied up round the place where the cables would have come out to turn this area into a notice sign. The kiosk, ...

Things have been progressing steadily on the FBGR this year, nothing spectacular, just onward progress. The paving/covering of the boarded area is continuing, as you will here. DSCF3854.JPG I have been making an hexagonal kiosk to be positioned on the platform extension, but my printer went FUTT, an...

The refurbishment of the section of Fence Buildings and Retaining Wall behind the Station area was completed yesterday with the return and refixing of the last three portions of the latter – just in time for the first running session (Weather permitting) next Weekend. DSCF3727 cropped.jpg One thing ...

The repair and repainting of some of the Fence Buildings has not gone at all that smoothly, partly due to interruptions caused by holidays, weather and a succession of family matters, and what is causing me some head-scratching is the learning about Humbrol Acrylic Paints – its a bit of a long story...