00 Scale Woodlands making debut at Salisbury & South Wilts Exhibition 20th/21st May 2023

 

Woodlands has its debut this weekend at the SSWRS exhibition at Wilton.

Set in the era of British Railways (Southern Region) in the mid 50's to mid 60's. Mostly operated with Small tanks and tender engines.

The layout is 8ft long and was inspired by Martin Brents Arcadia published in the March 1981 Model Railways magazine.

Slightly elongated scenic area but virtually identical track layout.

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00 Gauge St. Mewan for sale. NOW SOLD.

My 00 gauge- code 75 rail, is for sale due to lack of space and rationalization of stock. It is 8ft 1 inch long by 8inches wide with fiddle yard extension- left. The chimney is placed next to the dries. The layout fold in half for transport and is 3ft 6inches long for transport. Will need to be collected from Bournemouth. Comes with custom St Mewan Brake Van and Shunters truck. Wired for DC and points motor operated needs controller- wired for Gaugemaster Walkabout, and transformer with 2x 16V AC outputs.

 

00 Gauge Watershoot Bay ready to exhibit.- NOW SOLD

The work on Watershoot Bay is almost complete for the present. All that I intend to do is a lighting gantry which will be illuminated by LED strips.

Watershoot Bays first outing is at the Minehead exhibition on the 6th August. 

A new venue this year at the West Somerset College, Bircham Road, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 6AY.

Open 10am to 4.30 .

 

S&DJR Trust 0 and 00 scale wagons.

         The latest special commissions from Dapol in 0 and 00 gauge have been released by the S&D     Railway Trust and can be obtained from their website.

 

00 gauge water tower and station porter for Watershoot Bay.

 

Another offering from Anyscale Models is the water tank cast in resin. The detail is just right and, after painting has had some supporting legs fitted.

Not yet completed due to inaccessability of Watershoot Bay whilst readying my 009 Woody Lane.

More strengthening needs to be added before fitting but final measurement isn't possible at the moment.

Below is a porter asleep on a packing crate with the station cat from Monty's Models.

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00 gauge coal staithes and delivery lorry for Watershoot Bay.

The coal yard has it's staithes and a lorry to deliver the loaded sacks.

The staithes are from Anyscale Models-https://www.anyscalemodels.com/

I have used their products previously and the casting is excellent with little flash to clean up.

The delivery lorry is a Base Toys Albion CX3 which was produced from around 1935. A driver has been fitted together with sacks of coal, empty sacks and  coal scales.I must say that pre-WW2 trucks are virtually non-existant

 

Once painted the moulded coal had a sprinkling of real coal. A set of Springside coal merchant workers, which comes complete with weighing scales has also been added.

Not possible to add to the layout atthe moment as Woody Lane is being prepared for the S&DJR Trust exhibition at Edington this weekend 22/23rd July 2022.

Watershoot Bay 00 gauge - layout progress.

 

Mostly pictures of the progress made on Watershoot Bay.

The pasted newspaper has been applied to the cutting and tunnel mouth. Just have to wait for it to dry- not long in this heat I hope!

Once this part and the back scene boards are fitted it will be very basically ready to show at the Minehead Exhibition on August 6th.

The goods yard entrance- above- is mostly complete. Just some more detailing bits and figures to make it look busier.

A Smallbrook Studios kit of a converted Road Van is one of the first visitors. The tedious part is working out where to place the uncoupling magnets for stock distribution. The passenger stock is easy as two rakes are used and are fixed length. The goods stock- also to be in rakes is another matter as there are several differing lengths to take into account.