After modelling 2 layouts at gn15 scale (maple shack and vulcan iron works) I switch to 7/8 th scale (or 1/12 scale, doll house scale). It's a fictional layout for fisherman located at woolacombe (north devon, uk). The size is 140 cm by 72.5 cm plus a fiddle yard not shows). The base is an hollow core door plus pink foam on it and a little plaster.
I made some progress during september : I rust the rail, put 2 layers of sand and I begin to add few plants.
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Good start. I will be very interested in how you enhance it. For example, the weeds in the background still look a little artificial. Nice concept. Please keep posting. -- Russ
I'm planting the weeds. I just spent 3 hours for the weed I will add some more weed, cut it and shape it. For the moment I agree it's artificial but I will do effort to look like more natural.
That's beautiful!
Don't worry about the weeds, even though they look like hair plugs, they'll grow in ::)
mph
The rusting stuff at Dungeness is a popular subject on Flickr.
Nice start!
Just tell everyone that the weeds are some Boy Scout's Eagle Scout project and he planted them for erosion control. The pattern is a lot like the grass the US Park Service and the North Carolina Department of Conservation plant each summer on the Outer Banks. Just add a sweating Boy Scout with a stick and a bag of plants and go for a cold one. ::)
The plants grow quickly ... and now seem more natural
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Coming along and looking better. The scene is developing a sense of realism I kind of like. -- Russ
Quote from: finescalerr on October 21, 2012, 01:02:09 AM
Coming along and looking better. The scene is developing a sense of realism I kind of like. -- Russ
I agree with Russ but there is something thas has bugged me from the start. Just figured it out. The three braces on the corner of the wooden wall are not holding up much, at lease they don't look like it. I had a very similar wall on some real beach propety I had. To look right to me it should have a horizontal whaler bolted across the corners and then the braces holding them up and against the wall.
I agree with your comment. I was hesitating to do the bracing or not, but you convince me. If you have photos of true wall, you can post it like that it will look more real.
Quote from: franckcombe on October 23, 2012, 11:20:05 AM
I agree with your comment. I was hesitating to do the bracing or not, but you convince me. If you have photos of true wall, you can post it like that it will look more real.
Sorry I was slow in responding but my wife has been in the hospital, she is doing fine now.I hope this helps you or at least gives you an idea. The horizontal (A) wale (whaler) is bolted to the vertical boards every 4-6 feet. About every eight feet should be a brace to the ground (C) with the brace bolted to the wale. In the ground the brace should but against and be bolted to a deadman buried in the ground and running crosswise to the brace. The deadman should be about four to six feet long or even more depending on the soil. The deadman (D) could also b e buried vertical as in the drawing but not as strong. The drawing shown here is for temporary walls but the idea is the same. On a tall wall it is a good idea to have a second wale lower down on the wall.
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Thank-you for the drawing and dimensions. I will try to see what can I do and modify on my layout.
Anxious to see what you come up with.
This is the crab shack for selling the crabs and fish. I will need to do a little weathering on the roof, add the logo, fisherman and accessories
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and the photo of a partialy finished loco
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I just finish today this boat wagon according a true one one narrow gauge. I have to add two ropes in order to avoid unwanted disembarkation.
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The crab shack is also now open !
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I will add also a net fishing in the hands of the fisherman
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I will show this layout at Midland Railex (17th & 18th August 2013).
Now the Woolacombe Bay Railway needs to have a logo
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I worked hard to finish to paint 1 loco and 31 wagons. I resized also my crab shack that was a bit too small. Sorry for the poor quality of the indoor photos. There is no sun in France at the moment but I soon as It will be sunny I will do outdoor photos.
My rolling stocks are from LGB, Bacmhmann and HLW and are largely modified and/or are entirely scratch build.
Free lance loco with 2 V dump car with seaweed
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Side dump car with seaweed
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The woolacombe bay needs to develop with more tracks
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Maintenance of the way and repair facilities like big railway
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Gazole car for boat and locos
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water tanks from HLW
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For the transport of the fish
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Repair facility car
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I have to had something in the hands (a glass ??)
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I like that Plymouth in the last one!
Tell me more
-Mj
The loco has a chassis of hartland (mack), radiator, battery and coupler from simon harris, motor from italieri, spare part from ozark and the rest are scratch built.
Nice work on everything. I like that Plymouth, too. -- Russ
I agree, some nice rolling stock!
Very nice!
Who makes those side dump cars?
Quote from: Ray Dunakin on March 15, 2013, 06:49:38 PM
Very nice!
Who makes those side dump cars?
LGB makes the both.
This afternoon I have token fews outdoor shoots
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The stars of the layout !
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Nice looking locomotives - especially the yellow one. -- Russ
Those tank cars are interesting. Nice crabs, too.
For those that are interested, the layout will be displayed at the Midland Railex in august and I will be pleased to discuss and meet the forum's members
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During the exhibition, I was very pleased to meet Simon HARRIS. It was a pleasure and an honor for me that he runs his loco and rolling stocks on my layout. He gave me also the excellent idea of the chain shunting, brilliant ! I was also impressed by his battery loco, a system that I ignore all because I'm in DCC.
I had the pleasure to meet also Stephan, Peter and 3 - 4 others 7/8 th scale modellers (I hope the will forgave me to not be able to site them).
I'm already invite for 3 others exhibitions in UK so I hope it will be another occasion to meet others 7/8th scale modellers.
Articles will be written in British railway modelling and in narrow gauge industrial railway modelling review on the Woolacombe Bay so I hope it will contribute a little to the development of this fantastic scale.
Few photos of the layout during the exhibition with loco and rolling stock from Simon Harris
The flat depressed car is a marvellous
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Me with Simon Harris
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Sounds like you had a good time!
The layout looks nice, and I like Simon's little blue loco.
I will do the exhibition in october at à Sedan (France) , then in novembre at Rail Expo (near Paris). I will exhibit also at The London festival of Raiway Modelling in 22 March 2014 - 23 March 2014. I will come with a lister and a ruston that are nearly ready.
It will be another occasion to meet others 7/8 modellers.
You may read an article on my layout in the last issue of British Railway Modelling of November page 52 and more.
I get 2 new recruits to Woolacombe Bay : Bob and Doug Mckenzie, the cousins of Canada of the owner of the railroad !
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I choose them because they are very expressive, a little simple-minded and a bit drunky.
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I would like to have your opinion : Do you pefer Bob and Doug or th fisherman figure ? Thanks for your reply.
The first video done at Sedan during the EURO MOMING
http://youtu.be/mHNRs1lILsQ
Nice video. Where is the guy with the green dunce hat? -- Russ
Quote from: finescalerr on November 03, 2013, 12:56:12 AM
Nice video. Where is the guy with the green dunce hat? -- Russ
I have not at the time I done the video. For my next exhibition, I will show the guy.
I like the Bob and Doug figures because they have a more relaxed, natural pose and more interesting features/clothing. The other guy looks very generic.
I just finish the railexpo exhibition near Paris. I surprisingly won the 1st prize. I have done 2 videos of high quality with the sound and with Bob and Doug :
http://youtu.be/toSx91e_rZc
http://youtu.be/YDjguh_vZmo
Congratulations! -- Russ
Congratulations Franck, fortunately in Europe antlers are not mandatory to earn prizes :P
How absolutely wonderful !!!!
MPH
Congrats!
Great videos, love the sound. Are the engine sounds from an onboard system, or something else?
thanks for the kind remark.
For the sound, I have a decoder on board without sound plus a decoder (esu locksound) in parallel under the layout. The esu is linked to a sub woofer plus 2 satellites in order to have a punchy sound for the exhibition.
I will show the Woolacombe Bay layout at The London Festival of Railway Modelling (22 - 23 March 2014) , address: Alexandra Palace, London, N22 7AY.
I will be pleased to meet others 7/8 th scale modelers and share a drink.
The woolacombe bay at Alexandra Palace.
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It was my first show in this place. The organization was quite good. There was many interesting layout including a marvellous us one at fn3 scale, manies excellent ideas for inspiration and copy !
I enjoyed also to met for the second time the dream team of brm : Andy, Howard Richard and Phill.
I do also shopping but for our scale nearly nothing exist (It's mainly a show for oo and o gauge)
I add a new loco to my layout : a Ruston. It's not completly finish and paint. A Lister and and Ransom and Rapier will follow.
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Cool! Looks very good. Is it scratch, or what?
Quote from: Ray Dunakin on May 31, 2014, 08:17:41 PM
Cool! Looks very good. Is it scratch, or what?
It is a kit from an English craftsman and the motorization is from my friend jean-pierre.
A lovely looking engine from IP Engineering. (no I'm nothing to do with the manufacturer).
Les
Quote from: LesTindall on June 01, 2014, 01:56:04 PM
A lovely looking engine from IP Engineering. (no I'm nothing to do with the manufacturer).
Les
I bought it a second hand kit before Ip engeneering buy the kit and modify it
I just finished the loco. The photos are too exposed but it's my fault.
Here the result :
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Might be your nicest loco to date. -- Russ
Very nice!
I'm testing new sound for loco with zimo dcc sound.
For those who want to see the layout in flesh, For the end of 2014 and until mid 2015 I will do some exhibitions in Europa :
13 14 september 2014 à Gennevilliers in France
8 9 november 2014 at Expo-Trains at Luxembourg
2015
10th & 11th January 2015 St Albans model railway exhibition (London)
20-21 mars 2015 Linter (Belgium)
19/20/21 june Great Central Railway (Leceister UK)
Then I will sale my layout and I will run on exhibitions my new layout from Norway theme.
I add two clients for the crab shack
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Nice figure painting. -- Russ
I will exhibit the 10th & 11th January 2015 at St Albans model railway exhibition (London). Si I need to have more typical british locomotive to show. I have to paint my lister.
I have also a new project. On Rumanian narrow gauge there are plenty rail trucks or rail cars like that
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It's plenty of atmosphere. The germans done it also with combi VW. So I decided that I need also to have mine. I doodle between combi, austin mini, ...
But there is always prototype that exists so I did some reaserch and I found this
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In fact Canadian national did 5 cars like that for inspection car. So if Canadians did that, I could do it for my narrow gauge.
This is my unfinished version with HLW motor, esu decoder. I need to paint it, weather it a little, add sticker on it, a surfbord because it will be the rail car of the local surf club (Woolacombe bay is famous for surfing)
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Cool!
Here my two last locos for my next exhibition :
The lister motorized by my friend with a dcc decoder
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The mini for the woolacombe bay surf scool :
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Both turned out very well. -- Russ
This always makes 7/8 so attractive! :o :o :o
MPH
living in a 3/8" world
Great stuff! The red car is a beauty.
Hello Franck,
Beautiful car !
Here the details of the motorization.
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Nice red car. What is and where did you get the drive link chain?
Quote from: 5thwheel on January 05, 2015, 04:23:48 PM
Nice red car. What is and where did you get the drive link chain?
The chain comes from a friend, I don't know the supplier.
Try Serv-O-Link. -- Russ
Hi Frank, the chain can be found at Hettler.
http://www.spurnull.de/hettler/download/hettler-miniaturketten.pdf (http://www.spurnull.de/hettler/download/hettler-miniaturketten.pdf)
I went at Saint Alban exhibition. It was a super exhibtion. I meet few english friends like Gordon and Maggy Gravett, Christopher Payne, ... I learn a lot about to do building, forced perspective, ... I learn also how to do herbs with Maggy Gravett herself in french !
I had the opportunity to met also 7/8th scaler.
I come with Jean-Pierre Duval, my french friend that design and built the mack 2 tons.
I meet two teenagers at the exhibitions : Jamie and Josh. They was very pleased with the layout, so I left them the throttle during the 2 days. They were very efficient and studious. For my part I love to design and built a layout but not to run it.
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Sounds like a successful visit. Your models look quite satisfactory. -- Russ
It's great to see younger ones involved in train operations! They are the ones responsible to keep the hobby alive.
I just come back from an exhibition in Belgium at Linter. It was a small exhibition but with an high level of layouts.
It's a rural village and one of the speciality is the beer, a drink highly appreciate by my driver. So my driver decide to promote this excellent beverage.
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For the fun my friend add a pelican that stolen the fishes
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There is also a fight between the seagul and the pelican
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There are also 2 beautifull animals that took place in the boat
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I add also during the exhibition a seagull on the top of the house and droppings
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Like you can see I'm not a serious modellers and in Belgium they have a special sense of humour.
Frank, It's good to see that you enjoy your module and it sounds like the Belgian exhibition was just right for your humor.
Two articles on this layout is published this month :
on Schmale Spuren 1 / 2015 in German
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on Train Miniature magazine N° 146 in French and Netherlander
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Congrats!
Now it's time to retire this layout. I have plan to go at 19/20/21 june Great Central Railway (Leicester UK) but for personal reason I can't.
So I will offer this layout to my friend Jean-Pierre that help me and share with me 5 exhibitions in France and Europe.
I want to thank all the persons that participate to this topic and help me to improve the layout by their critics and supports during 2 years. It was also a great pleasure to meet them also in flesh during the various exhibitions.
Now it's also time to finish my other layout "vestvagoy" quickly because my club will be closed at the end of June.
So i will continue model railroading but at home in my apartment. With such lack of space, I have to downsizing my next project, so I will start my new project at 009 scale with a layout located in Morocco in 1917.
Too bad about your club shutting down. Good luck with your next layout, whatever it may be.
Please post photos as you build your next layout ... and the models for it. -- Russ