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 .

 

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.

 

00 Gauge Mikes Models Spiral Fluted Platform Lamps.

Every so often the ideal item is found on e-bay.

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!

00 Gauge Watershoot Bay tunnel mouth.

Now comes  the messy part of the job- carving the chalk hill leading to the fiddle yard tunnel.

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 .

 

PECO LK-85 FlexibleField Fencing kit.

I have decided to use the Peco LK-85 flexible fencing kit for boundary fences on  Watershoot Bay.

I know that this fencing isn't correct for Southern Railways but I don't have the time-or inclination- to produce the correct wire variety by hand.

It is a surprise that the kit has been modified from the original. The tedium of fitting the centre spacer with the four lugs is no more. Only two now and to join sections together there are also only two lugs which are on half a post .

 

It is so much easierto assemble and there is a codecil on the instructions that Enamel paint should be used-this I have yet to try.

So a whole packet was assembled in an hour.

More to follow.

Watershoot Bay goods yard progressing.

In view of the time frame left, several kits will have to be used together with some modified parts.

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 level crossing is, again, a Wills offering. This has had a panel removed and is sited adjacent to the signal box.

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.

 

00 Gauge Watershoot Bay update.

Basic ground cover- paint- applied. It already makes an improvement.

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.

 

00 Gauge Watershoot Bay- now electrified.

 

With Watershoot Bay now up and running- thanks mainly to my good friend Nigel-work can now progress on the scenic side.

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 wagons are a fair mixture. One of each Hornby and a Smallbrook Studios Brake vans together with a Smallbrook van converted from a redundant brake are the correct replicas whilst the others , both vans and opens, are modified and repainted Hornby with a solitary Oxford ex-GN van.

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!