Vale of Fairway
I love that island platform and its building. Looks really good.bazzer42:109457 wrote: I've just re read the post and thought it looked a mess! I do envy some of scenics of others but don't want to add anything too permanent beyond platforms. Would love a tarmac road but I'll have to make believe!
Like you, I don't really have anything beyond the platforms - I just rely on vegetation. A lot can be done with a few strategically placed plants. Have you thought of ground cover such as thyme, Corsican Mint, mind your own business or even a small -leaved ivy? The photos on my railway are carefully staged to avoid, where possible, the background. Swivel the camera a couple of degrees and all I get is brick wall, back door or conservatory.
Rik
The problem we have is the copper beech at the end of the garden that creates quite a bit of shade. We have chopped a willow down so plants may fare a little better this year. Plenty of baby's tears by the riverside harbour station. Rather black at the moment but hopeful it will return.
I think some posters and fire buckets will break the building up a bit.
I think a photography course would help! Can't even find the zoom on my tablet....
I think some posters and fire buckets will break the building up a bit.
I think a photography course would help! Can't even find the zoom on my tablet....
Philip, the nissen hut is the old style modeltown kit. I always liked the kit and bought it when they were selling it off A pig to fit the curved iron and doesn't warrant close inspection!
I like modeltown kits and figures and treated myself to a little brick gents for this station at the Exeter show only to find when I got home it was stone.....will be converted to a hut and the workings into a scratch built wc. I have drawings of a severn and wye kharzi so there is a precedent in the style of buildings I'm using.
If I use the same style buildings throughout will the layout be bland or consistent
I like modeltown kits and figures and treated myself to a little brick gents for this station at the Exeter show only to find when I got home it was stone.....will be converted to a hut and the workings into a scratch built wc. I have drawings of a severn and wye kharzi so there is a precedent in the style of buildings I'm using.
If I use the same style buildings throughout will the layout be bland or consistent
Struggling to post pictures tonight, keeps telling me I'm a guest.... bizarre! The day has been spent shuffling blocks to create room for nice fir that was in the corner at the local nursery. Hopefully station road will come around the tree to the station. By placing the goods shed in various places I have decide to add steps up the side of the shed. I will do as Rik suggested and add some greenery to break up the blocks.
Good news from Roundhouse, Cricceth is ready and no charge for fitting the flywheel. What a company. Wonder what is coming Saturday??
I see where you're coming from Philip, the only snag may be that the concrete footings for the post may stop me getting fencing in. Although as I type this I realise I could sink posts at each end of the fence and dummy the rest.
I also wonder about a pub/hotel next to the station. There will be a level crossing at the end of the road so people can drive into a stone wall....
I also wonder about a pub/hotel next to the station. There will be a level crossing at the end of the road so people can drive into a stone wall....
Baz,
Are you thinking of your pub in front of that raised bed somewhere, with the road going off to the right?
You could be clever and do a semi-low relief building. Put a flat front on the face of the raised bed wall and utilise the depth of the bricks to give it volume at roof level ( if that makes sense?). I used a simple flat fronted pub/hotel to disguise a timber shed wall behind my station.
Are you thinking of your pub in front of that raised bed somewhere, with the road going off to the right?
You could be clever and do a semi-low relief building. Put a flat front on the face of the raised bed wall and utilise the depth of the bricks to give it volume at roof level ( if that makes sense?). I used a simple flat fronted pub/hotel to disguise a timber shed wall behind my station.
Philip
Anything Jim can do I can do with a little help from a ladder. A bungalow has some benefits and climbing on the roof isn't a worry.
An unstaged photo of a deadfrog point. I've buried six of the poor little blighters in a week. This ones dead buddy was sleeping on my engine shed base area. If it's any consolation their offspring are thriving in the pond.
There was a discussion on another thread about the ebay £7.50 vwmonkey wagon. I've put one together in under an hour this afternoon. It seems quite small compared to the Jurassic one plank wagon (which is a lovely kit as well). I might have to use it for quarry traffic along with my Binnies. It has a small weight from an artificial slate underneath and ran flawlessly.
Long time, no post. I have to confess to having a hankering for 7/8th. As an experiment I have tried grafting a baguley bonnet to a lgb schoema chassis. It is rather uncanny how it fitted. Still plenty to do and waiting for modelearth multi height couplers to come back in stock. Still unsure whether I'm red buffer beams or red and white chevrons. Body definitely green, exhaust up the front, on the side or mid way along the bonnet?
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