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Sylvian Tennant · Post by **Sylvian Tennant** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 5:52 am

Cheers mate

Yeah, it took a couple of paint overs and applications to get how I liked it lol!

jim@NAL · Post by **jim@NAL** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:39 pm

looking very good I do like the office tickets signs keep up the good work

Sylvian Tennant · Post by **Sylvian Tennant** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:00 pm

Thank you jim

I've now began the next phase of Danla Nilsie Station (a midway point between the port terminuses of Elsinore and Whittington - both of which lie just ahead of the Headquarter towns of the railway respectively)

The interior work is nowhere near as detailed as the station building - mainly due to it begin disguised by curtains and netting once it's complete.

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Tue Feb 21, 2017 11:33 pm

That's going to b a very nice looking structure when finished and a substantial size too! From the squares on your cutting board I guess about 50cm long.... quite a beast.

Sylvian Tennant · Post by **Sylvian Tennant** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 9:38 am

With any luck it will!

I took some preliminary photos in the garden to give an indication of the finished article.

Maybe the platform is a little narrow :S

markoteal · Post by **markoteal** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 1:33 pm

Maybe just slip the s/M House back to be flush with the offices and build an extension to the platform at the rear, just where the house overhangs - you won't see it and would keep the front line nice and square?

Sylvian Tennant · Post by **Sylvian Tennant** » Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:30 pm

I think that'll be the best plan. I'm not wanting the station masters house to be completely flush I'll set it back a bit more than what you can here there.

In other news - I managed to get my water tower finished last night.

As ever, I'm not content with just building something out of the box so i added a 'grate' for the 'water' to 'disappear' into when not in use with a concrete surrounding. In fact tit was just a spare bit of wood from an ip engineering kit. Also I thought the original bag, looked a little - plastic so instead I cut up a small carrier back into long lengths, wrapped it round a bit of the tube that came with the kit and painted it Anthracite.

The overall outcome, I hope was to represent the water tower at Goathland.

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:36 pm

Nice colouring to the stonework... very subtle.

Soar Valley Light · Post by **Soar Valley Light** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:51 pm

That's another nice piece of work. It was a great idea to modify the bag with....... a bag! It looks very realistic. The while thing looks absolutely spot on.

Andrew

Sylvian Tennant · Post by **Sylvian Tennant** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 12:21 am

Cheers chaps.

It was a spur of the moment thought which turned out quite nicely.

So far some major progress has been made on the station masters house. Due to funds this may not be finished for a fair few days but overall the major work is now under way. I think the weathering was accidentally heavier than the water tower when I looked at the examples at Goathland station - this seems to be pretty accurate.

As for the model, I'll finish off the painting then put it to one side and begin work on my final kit building. The signal box.

Post by **philipy** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 2:21 pm

I'm no expert on NYM colouring, but I think the station house stone colour looks spot on generally for weathered stone 'oop north'.
Well done.

Sylvian Tennant · Post by **Sylvian Tennant** » Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:23 pm

It looks comparable even with the difference between the station building and water tower is quite parallel between the real inspirations.

Unfortunately I've lost one of my paints (reddish brown) and will have to wait until Friday to be able to pick another one up as well as other finishings for the station masters house. So until then most of my building work has ceased.

However I have made a start on some signals in the mean time. The arms are pretty much made up and the post have been cut.

LNR · Post by **LNR** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:39 am

Those signal arms look nice!
Grant.

Post by **philipy** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:02 pm

LNR:123289 wrote:Those signal arms look nice!
Grant.

Agreed, they do look nice.
Are the arms made of wood or is that an illusion? I'd be concerned about the effects of rain/snow/occasional sunshine?

jim@NAL · Post by **jim@NAL** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:57 pm

they look very good

Soar Valley Light · Post by **Soar Valley Light** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:43 pm

Now, I've been known to be very snippy about matters of a signalling nature, it being my particular passion. In this case I absolutely agree with the forgoing comments - you've made a belting job of those arms chap. The detail of the bolting between the spectacle plate and the blade is really impressive and I love the curve of the spectacles themselves. I'm really looking forward to seeing them develop.

Andrew

James from Devon · Post by **James from Devon** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:33 pm

I agree with the previous comments....love the signal arms!

What are going to use for the lenses?

I have some (loads of) theatre lantern colour gel --- translucent plastic essentially...if you need a bit you can send me a stamped envelope and i'll post you some back!

Keep up the amazing work with your models, I can't wait to see more

markoteal · Post by **markoteal** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 10:24 am

Go to agree - lovely items - I've bought mine in off ebay and they are great but there is something about signals and being able to make your own to fit the exact requirements of the line which standard set ups don't always fit

Will be watching developments on these closely

Sylvian Tennant · Post by **Sylvian Tennant** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:17 pm

Cheers guys

I wish I had seen this earlier, James as I've just added the spectacles today. (are you a theatre man by any chance?)

They're real wood but I'm undecided as to leave them out of bring them in after running sessions.

Well, they been painted up (hand painted so there are some inconstancies).

I'll be putting them to one side until I can get other bits finished.

Sylvian Tennant · Post by **Sylvian Tennant** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:17 am

Well, after a few months of wondering when this could all be wrapped up we re now seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. But it's still in the distances, however.

The station is about 95% complete with the building work in place. Some bits of furniture and maybe peoples will complete the look - oh and also the station lamps which I need to think of a way to make them work.

Overall all that need to be done now is for the signals and signal box to be built - maybe add a plate layers hut and another building (a cheap windmill from BnM or something) reballast and wait for the flowers to grow!

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The down side is we are now talking about possibly moving in the near future to accommodate my degree and my partners work so I would like to see this completed before I tackle the sad task of demolition to rebuild elsewhere.

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