Six of us joined the Zoom meeting on November 17th – David, Hugh, John, Mike, Robin and Paul; Will sent his apology. Three of us had card modelling projects to report on.
Mike showed photographs of a small chapel clad in corrugated iron following from an earlier meeting (No 4) where he introduced the project. The discussion in the previous meeting had been helpful with ideas and resources. The model has now been completed and will be added to the model railway layout. The help given on the corrugated cladding was excellent and Slaters service was next day delivery, the roofing with the diamond shape tiles was no problem but very time consuming.
Model 1. With all pitched roofs will be going on the layout.
The model is entirely built of throw away card, only costs were the cladding and the usuals like glue and paint.
Model 2. When building was under way Mike decided to make a second model of the church with flat roofing on the entrance and storage area as someone had informed him that this was correct for the early days of the church, making the model different.
Robin showed us a bridge that was constructed using a scrap piece of recycled corrugated card board 29 years ago.
The sides were reinforced and a card deck was made for strength.
The bridge is covered in red Das mixed with white glue (it's very strong).
Once dry the stone work was painted different shades of grey using cheap water colours. Then he picked out some of the stones in a different shade.
Note the ox-cart on the road side of the bridge.
Paul showed progress on two projects and images of the rear of some half relief buildings.
Following a pause some vacuum pipes (brass and iron wire) had been fitted to the Alphagraphix Swilly coach. Outstanding tasks to complete were listed.
Good progress had been made with the replacement Lispole station hut. Slaters corrugated iron plastic card had been used to clad the cardboard shell. Door frame, the window frames and their sills, notice board and bargeboards were all made from card.
Following a question at the last meeting there were photos of the rear of some half relief structures found on Melton Market (009).
Hugh asked if anyone knew of a source of the Freestone embossed card brickwork (Note it's Howard Scenics embossed card, - I think FMA used to stock it - HN) his own supplies now being near to exhaustion. Seemingly it is not manufactured any more.
Robin noted that Noch had produced an embossed card for random stone – maybe brickwork was available but it'd be 3.5mm scale.
We had a good discussion on matters narrow gauge and forth coming events including John exhibiting his Kurseong layout.
The next meeting is planned for Thursday 19th January, start at 8.00pm (t.b.c.).
~ s.p.t. Nov 022