Lineside Delights small station

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Post by Merddin Emrys » Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:47 pm

Well I've been busy doing the first modelling for years and my first ever 16mm model building :shock: My wife bought this for me at the Llanfair show in 2009 and only now have I made a start!

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I've used car filler on the corner joints, but I found the roof panels to be too small as I wanted a good overhang

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so I glued on the roof with a gap at the top and used carboard as a mould for more car filler
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top of roof filled
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slates carved on top of roof and chimney fitted
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Icut the ridge tile section into 20mm pieces as I did not want them to look too straight
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It's taken many hours to build this (I'm very fussy :roll: :lol: ) but I've loved doing it! :D

More to come later!
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Post by MoelygestLR » Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:22 pm

looks great! My S/B engine shed roof is a bit of a patchwork quilt and I'm using car body filler too, I just hope it turns out as well as yours has!
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Post by Narrow Minded » Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:42 pm

Looking great, I especially like the idea of seperating the ridge tiles :D
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Post by Merddin Emrys » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:17 pm

More progress!

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Post by taliesin001 » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:41 pm

Wow, ats looking great. Love the canopy, looking very welsh indeed. :D
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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:40 pm

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That really is impressive! :D Well done! :D
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:57 pm

I love the colour and detail of the stonework and the landscape behind it looks really realistic...
A marvellous little halt building bravo!
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Post by Merddin Emrys » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:08 pm

Thanks :D The painting was easy really, I just sprayed it with grey car primer, then I was very lucky in finding some acrylic paints for £1 each in a craft shop in Llandudno I just mixed up different shades of grey and painted it in front of the telly. The canopy had brass and whitemetal parts so I used an etch primer on it (some car stuff I bought years ago and it stinks :lol: ) which I brushed on. I've never used these acrylic paints before but they are a delight to use :D

I need to protect it with a matt acrylic varnish, where can I get that from?

I still have to make a permenent notice board, this one is just thick paper held on with bluetac. The posters are genuine FR by the way!
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Post by LMS-Jools » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:21 pm

Very Nice, well done. 8)
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Post by laalratty » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:49 pm

Brilliant :D How did you get Ffestiniog posters so small?
"What the hell is that?"
"It's a model icebreaker sir."
"It's a bit big isn't it?"
"It's a full scale model sir....."
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Post by SLRmidge » Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:12 pm

Lovely, a work of art :D
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Post by Merddin Emrys » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:33 pm

laalratty wrote:Brilliant :D  How did you get Ffestiniog posters so small?


I was asked last year if I would put some of the FR posters up and with the posters I get a sheet showing where they go, by sheer good fortune they are about the right size for 16mm :D 8) :lol:
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Post by laalratty » Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:01 pm

Curses! I would like some for the ANLR (I used to put reduced Ravenglass and Eskdale ones in one building but they were still too big)
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Post by mhlr » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:11 am

Thas is von nice stayshun bilding mein friend.

Really nicely done, has a very realistic brick effect! I assume these buildings wont be left outside then?!
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