Time to use the layout's correct name. The village is growing as 3 semi detached cottages are being repaired. Most of the houses and industry on the Harbour Road are completed. Starting on the fish factory and its siding soon.(https://scontent.ffab1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-0/p75x225/186558223_5382817285126843_9190290803627557698_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=b9115d&_nc_ohc=LQLRugFK2rsAX_1G9Bd&_nc_ht=scontent.ffab1-2.fna&tp=6&oh=8b022e5d11d2717473c96cc46d58ce6c&oe=60C4F774)
Construction continues but very slowly. This is the Smokery which is to be situated on the quayside. It is rail connected via a wagon turntable with the use of the quayside tractor for moving wagons. I am finding that the cottage industries that have sprung up laser cutting ply and MDF are an excellent starting point. The larger building processes the fish and shellfish. The fish is moved to one of the two smoke chambers. Surplus fish is packed in ice, as is the shellfish, and shipped off via tractor and train to various destinations. The main processing building was a small bungalow which when built was coated with ceiling patching plaster. Once dry (overnight) it was lightly sanded and sprayed with Halfords white primer. The finish is typical of some of the Cornish rendered buildings. The smokehouse was a simple small farm building with the roof covered in Noch card. The building was engraved with bricks that have been sprayed with Halfords bauxite primer, individual bricks picked out in different colours and flooded with a thin wash of mortar colour (add 1 drop of washing up liquid to the wash to encourage the colour to settle. Finally the chimney is scratch built using a piece of 1" waste pipe covered in some preprinted enbossed old red brick and its base is plasticard covered in grey stone embossed card. Careful looking will reveal the chassis and tender of the George England loco and another chassis (Kato 11-110) that I imported from Japan and saved almost £10.
Quote from: Ken Davidge on July 10, 2021, 14:12Once dry (overnight) it was lightly sanded and sprayed with Halfords white primer...
I confess that I wasn't reading this as closely as I might have and thought you were still talking about the fish. :)
Coming on nicely, anyway - keep us updated.
David.
Most of the buildings for Halsferran Cove are now complete and a test fitting shows a need to move a siding, next job. A good amount of the track will be inset into road surfaces and the templates need making. This is transfered onto foam board and glued down after cutting out the recess for the sleepers. The photos below shows the arches, fishermans cottages and cider works, all low relief at the back. The fish plant and smokery look good together and 2 more modern cottages back on to the siding that needs moving. In the corner is another modern cottage and The Tinner's Arms.
Little bit more building making. Not quite finished yet but nearly there. Small shed for the diesel shunter that spends it time at Halsferran Cove and an engine house in the course of demolition, scaffolding not yet finished.
Surely the engine house should be under restoration as a historic building. :)
I'd agree with you Peter if I was modelling the scene as now but I am working in the 1940s/50s when many were demolished as unsafe.
Quote from: Ken Davidge on August 27, 2021, 15:32
I'd agree with you Peter if I was modelling the scene as now but I am working in the 1940s/50s when many were demolished as unsafe.
A lot of old dwellings were destroyed or at least made uninhabitable so the the owners could avoid paying rates on them.
Bit more work on the scaffold and thinking maybe the firm are restoring the old pump house. I really like this and it will cause some traffic hold ups which will impact on the railway.