At 3ft long by 8 inches wide it wont take up much storage space.
Track is PECO bullhead with a couple of buffer stops all ballasted with coarse chippings secured, as usual, with dilute PVA.
Few more bits to add as items are being built for another O gauge layout.
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.
I wasn't happy with the platform lamps on Watershoot Bay. They didn't actually look right and were too small.
These Mike's Models - now long obsolete and unavailable for some time appeared and are almost exactly right.
So, a coat of primer and then Southern olive after they were cleaned up and, once dry, the parts were assembled and the station targets attached.
Pretty satisfied with the resuly although, like most things now, they take me an age to make- really frustrating.
Still, they are done and ready to be fixed in place.
My deadline is approaching fast so need to get the papier mache out and clad the hills and banks!
I have retained some expanded polystyrene from some packaging received ages ago.
It is flat and clean , it also is fairly easy to cut being about 15mm thick.
Roughly cut to shape and secured in place with some PVA I will let it set until tomorrow before the great carve up begins!
The tunnel mouth is a Wills kit .
The Wills woodyard is fairly small compared with it's larger Ratio cousin- and a lot cheaper!
Undercoated with grey primer, the roofs and lean to have been lightly weathered with rust acrylic paint dry brushed on.
The represented wood stacks took an age to fix together and finally coated with wood coloured paint.
The wooden walkway has been produced from wood effect plastic sheet.
Greenwood products made the lazer cut Southern concrete hut and is similarly positioned to one on the Island.
An overall view of the goods yard which has had very fine scatter glued in place as the yard surface.
Cobbles were originally laid for the entrance and crane base but never extended further.
Finally the crossing to the second area of the goods yard.
Black card cut to shape , painted and then covered with flock.
One of the re-imagined 4 wheeler from a GN Hornby model- captures the essence of IOW early coaches.
The Southern Vectis bus makes an appearance, this be repositioned when the roadway is built. Hopefully the 'Southern Vectis' lettering will be more visable.
The coal wagons have had a Sprat and Winkle coupling fixed to each end of the rake of four. The couplings between them are shortened proprietry type.
This post shows the rolling stock that will be used on the layout. Motive power will mostly be 0-6-0 ex LB&SCR Terriers. Most are in Maunsell Olive livery but there are also a couple of others, one in Sunshine Malachite and one, as yet ,devoid of markings.
The Olive coaches are now 4 wheelers- the centre axle having been removed. The teak 4 wheelers are re-branded GNR stock.
The first picture shows the station building sat atop the platform base- this needs some work before it can be glued to rest- hopefully in the right place!
The ballast, cream this time, was gently eased into place avoiding the immediate area around the points.
The sticks were added to keep the blades away from other rails- last thing you need is these stuck together.
Once satisfied with the loose ballast, I give the whole area a gentle mist- from an atomiser (remove smell of fragrance first) which contains water and a spot of washing up liquid. This
I use a cheap polythene pippette to apply the mix to the ballast- others use an eye dropper.
Once the whole area has been saturated with the glue mix it is time to wait for it all to dry thoroughly- don't try and cut corners now or it will all end in tears!
Once dry the missed areas and the points can carefully be ballasted. Small amounts at a time and lots of patience.
I have used the Wills point rod kit and this will be more of a representation than a faithful reproduction. This is due mainly to lack of forward planning and the fact I am not going to dig out the ballast.
First a coat of track dirt and it's ready to position.
Idly sorting through the bits box I came across a bundle of coffee stirrers of various sizes.
Roughly cut with a pair of sidecutters and stuck together with quick stick PVA they have turned out quite well for no outlay.
A coat of acrylic brown paint mixed with dark grey they are all ready for a delivery of coal and a Coal Office.
