Quick update with pictures of progress; in this case post spak filla, sanding and then undercoating (coat one). Looking at the one photo that turned out sharp and in focus, the undercoat seems to be wrinkling up so will need a light sand before the second coat that was planned regardless. I need to learn to be more careful with phone camera shots or bother to go get the DSLR...
Well it's been too many months between blog posts but it's not that nothing has been happening. Social media are fickle. Anyway, a big project still under construction is a single road engine shed based on the later one at Tiverton Junction. Much material is available that shows the shed as viewed from the front and a bit of one side. The plan I sourced from Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre appears to be a plan for either 1) the older shed or 2) the actual building does not match the original plan or 3) Tiverton (not Junction) had a single road engine shed or 4) other ____ ?
Regardless then of plan, I have had to make changes to fit the location on the layout so this being my railway, this is my shed, with a view to having it look like the Tiverton Junction one as it was in the 1940s until it it was demolished. Many mock ups and trials have now resulted in the setup I have which includes an inspection pit, made with the Peco kit. One of the tricks I am using is to sprinkle exterior polyfilla (a bit concrete in colour and offers texture as well) on wet grey acrylic paint. Recently the pit got glued in with some tricks to have the shed wired in isolation in a visually discreet way. There are some gaps that will now need filling and then the rest of the floor needs to be coloured/textured to match the inspection pit. Anyway, as a work in progress it seems to be going well and I am happy with how it looks:
That busy time of year has come to an end and I have finally gotten around to blogging again. It's not that train stuff has not been happening, I am just not as diligent about blogging things as I could be...
So to keep this short and sweet then, here are some photos of the two layers of envirotex epoxy on the testing diorama.
The next step is to make the surface more water like by applying this like so to try and achieve a look like this while acknowledging that the work on the Coast Line Railroad is in O scale by a far superior modeller to myself.
How did I end up at an On30 layout picture? More on that in future posts :-)
