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I asked our postman about the shorts and he said when it rains it is far better to get wet legs than wet trousers.

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Sat Oct 08, 2022 9:34 am I asked our postman about the shorts and he said when it rains it is far better to get wet legs than wet trousers.

Ah!!! Getting blue coloured legs from the wet, blue material. Those were the days.

Glencairn

Trying to catch up with some of the small (and easy) jobs at the moment - and there are quite a few .

Schools Class 30909 St.Pauls is about to become 30901 Winchester.

IMG_1392 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

Simply fabulous. The night scenes are evocative of a rare warm Northern European evening. I shall be plagiarizing your use of retaining walls to capture the borders. I hope I will have half your success.

Your rails appear to have a patina of rust, on the sides. I fear I shall have to forgo that element. That must have been a job and a half to get it just right and not have the "rust" go everywhere it is not wanted.

The ballasting could not be more refined. I've not seen better.

Hi Chops - As I have said before, you are free to plagiarize anything you see . The rust on the rails, in most cases, came from using a Woodland Scenics Track Pen. I recall they come in three tones - easy to use, and the colour does not go everywhere. When in the USA, in Florida, I did visit a model train store that sold a track paint applicator, which was like a very small squeezy bottle to hold the paint, with a metal tube with a foam(?) edged wheel - you squeezed the bottle, paint cam down the tube onto the wheel, which fitted nicely into the side of the track and therefore applying the paint. For some reason I did not buy one The ballast is a mix of various Woodland Scenics 00 gauge ballast - applied in the usual way.
Barry

Great tip, no pun intended, I'd never heard of such a thing. May look into it at some point. Ballasting is a devious art, and I've abandoned all hope or desire to fool with that stuff.

BR 9F 92220 Evening Star now fitted with Fox Transfers etched brass nameplates. They look a little low, compared with the real thing. The top of the nameplate is level with the rivet on the smoke deflector, as per the real thing, and when fitting you have to be able to cover the original transfer (I was not going to rub it off), and there is really no "wiggle" room. They are attached using PVA - so can be removed.

IMG_1404 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

The cottage on the hill now has a dry-stone wall around the garden. The building and walling are all N-gauge, so as to give the impression it is in the distance. It could do with some dim lighting, but sitting on top of the tunnel does create problems with regards a power source. I think it needs a Land Rover behind the gate?

IMG_1407 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

And then the Land Rover will need a muddy track..........etc.

I have not as yet had a go at using the ScaleCast moulds for the possible replacement retaining wall. However, I saw these on ebay (cheap), and thought I would see what they were like. Made of plaster and detailed, and finished with I assume, a quick coat of Halfords Grey Primer. What do you think?

IMG_1408 by Barry
Clayton, on Flickr

IMG_1409 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr