WEST ORTON

[Steve M]

I have trained a chicken to apply the glue.

If there are no pictures then it didn’t happen.

I could borrow one from the farm next door to where we are on hols - although the one on the road had definitely been spatchcocked. They won’t miss another one.

[Walkingthedog]

Here it is having a rest with its apprentices after finishing.

[Steve M]

This is an idea I started kicking around in my head before our holiday. I wanted a long footbridge to access the MPD and this is the result.

It started life as a Dapol station footbridge with the centre span replaced by laser cut sides from Scale Model Scenery. They are a little deeper than the original kit but hopefully I’ve disguised this. I added some mesh to the inner sides before giving it a coat of red oxide primer. It obviously needs weathering at some point.

20210930_121820 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

20210930_121836 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

[Walkingthedog]

Nothing wrong with that Steve.

[RogerB]

Agree, very high standard once again. Can I ask Steve, what is the material used in the “wall” around the turntable? R-

[Steve M]

Agree, very high standard once again. Can I ask Steve, what is the material used in the “wall” around the turntable? R-

The walls are sleeper walls cast from resin. They were curved by softening them in very hot water before shaping. As they cool they set in their final shape.
I may yet replace them with a wall of sleepers built from coffee stirrers as the cast sections are slightly out of scale.

[RogerB]

Thanks, thought it might be one of your resin projects. They look very effective and convincing but I see what you mean about being oversized.

I’ll go for coffee stirrers. When I can find which box they are in.

R-

[Steve M]

Roger, you are a bad influence.
I have just spent an hour laminating coffee stirrers (too thin on their own) ready for cutting to length tomorrow.
I think I need ‘professional help’.

[RogerB]

Oh gawd, what do you laminate with? R-

[bulleidboy]

Footbridge looks very good - is that Halfords Red Oxide? Following on from the comments about coffee stirrers, there will probably now be a national shortage as every railway modeller grabs a handful in Starbucks (there are other coffee shops)