Glen Ogle

[gtmspyder]

Here is a comparison of the two landslips I have modelled, I am not sure now which I prefer, what are your thoughts please.

Before.



And after.



BrianT.

[Krizzy]

After!  But with a wider fan and some of the larger boulders at the bottom as their weight would carry them further.

Roger

[petersmith1942]

I too think the latter, large boulders are generally hard to make convincing in model form.
I am most impressed by how the bridge has evolved and when greenery is added the scene will look excellent and short trains will take a while to trundle thro the scene
A lot also depends on whether the land slips are recent or are gradually becoming part of the scene and have greenery in them. Waiting for the waterfall!
Hope its as much fun to do as it is to watch it evolve
Peter Smith

[gtmspyder]

Thank you gentlemen, from yours and a comment from the NGRM, I will slightly modify it.

It is intended to look like an old landslip, so will be decorated with some greenery as work progresses.

Regards,

BrianT.

[gtmspyder]

Right then, a little more work on Glen Ogle's landslip.

I dug out the rockery I had modelled above the track bed and widened the damage section, then I covered the area with the Gunna-nail mastic, spreading it with my digit to make sure it had taken hold of the complete area.



I then pushed into the soft mastic the rock debris I am using.  The lower section of the land-slip below the track-bed, I widened and added small debris and larger rocks towards the bottom.  I also widened the overspill area at the other side of the river.



Then painted all the general area with dilute PVA and scattered some green flock, and made up some small bushes to place in among the scree of the land-slip.  The bushes are still wet with the dilute PVA hence the white look of them.



To clean up the excess green flock, I have made myself a purpose flock collector.



I have in the past, simply stuffed a piece of cloth up the vacuum cleaner hose end, and run the hose end over the flocked area to collect excess greenery, but I now use this paint brush cleaner bath, which I bought from Wickes.  This has two internal container sections for clean and dirty Turps/White Spirits, the lid has two slits in to be able to push a paint brush through and suspend them in the liquid to clean the brushes of oil paint.   I drilled a 12mm hole near the bottom of one of the internal container sections, to accept a piece of garden hose,  and stuck a piece of woman's tights' tops, across the top of the internal partition, to make a flock proff barrier between the two internal sections.




I blocked up one of of the lid holes with masking tape, the other accepts the hose end of the vacuum cleaner.



With the lid in place, the container now has two internal container sections, one open to the green hose, the other accepting the hose end of the vacuum cleaner, divided by material which will allow air to pass through it, but stop any of the greenery and depositi it in it's own contained section.

With the vac turned on, and the end of the green hose held near any loose material, the material quickly goes up the green pipe and is deposited into the internal container, to be recovered for reuse.



Voila, captured greenery, plus anything else that was lying around near the end of the green suction hose.




And that's about it for today.  The flock vac is not yet patented, so feel free to copy. ;D ;D ;D

Regards,

BrianT.

[Krizzy]

Another of my interests is railway poster art and I was looking through my copy of Richard Furness's book 'Poster To Poster, Volume 1 Scotland.
On page 65 is illustrated a poster of Glen Ogle by Terence Cuneo for BR Scottish Region from 1952. Cuneo has painted the viaduct, in the distance, as seen from the loco cab. He has painted the scene with plenty of colour variation in both rocks, shrubbery and ground cover. That is how I have sceniced all of the layouts I have built. Please don't stick one with one flat green get as much variation as you can muster as well as different textures for the shrubbery. A couple of weeks ago in the good weather I had a trip on the TR up the Fathew Valley. I took a series of photos from the train as it progressed of the opposite side of the valley. Looking closely at them reveals just how much colour variation nature provides. When exhibiting the layouts many people ask us how we achieve the scenery. Our answer is nearly always observation of what is all around us especially in the area the layout is supposed to represent.

Roger

[gtmspyder]

Hello Roger, gimmee time. ;D

This colour you have seen was a quick cover with a bag I had in stock just to see how it looked, I have no doubt that I have many hours of work in front of me before I will be satisfied that I have approached anything like a finish.

I do not have Cuneo's skills however, and in any case, the changing seasons and lighting will make it impossible for me to truly re-create the scene at any time in Glen Ogle, but I will do my best.

Thank you for your interest.

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[Krizzy]

Brian

I am not trying to rush you at all. I will be taking a layout to the Convention and over the last couple of days I have spruced it up a little here and there in readiness. What follows applies to all who are building a layout. The layout in question was first exhibited twenty years ago so there has been plenty of wear and tear. In that time span the scenics have evolved with all those colour variations added on to the basic ground cover when the layout was first begun. Trees have been replaced with better specimens with some more added only yesterday. Time does not stand still and neither should a layout. To keep it fresh work needs to be done on a layout maybe once a year, a sort of annual inspection if you get my drift. Over the years you may come across certain items that catch your attention with the thought, 'that would look good on the layout'. Over the years I have collected various scenic materials from different sources. Most are Woodland Scenics, Green Scene who also produce excellent textured paints, Anita D

[gtmspyder]

Thank you Roger, I understood your sentiments, no offence was taken, and I do appreciate the feedback I get from the forums.

just as a matter of interest, no actual damage was done to the track bed or the track at the time, and it could have been quickly cleared away.

The track bed, now clear of rails, is actually an official walk and cycleway, and nothing has been done to secure it from further landslips.. The only concession to health and safety, is to install handrails to the capping stones across the viaduct.

My conjecture for the model is that before the path and cycleway were officially mooted, a group of well to do business people decided to use the track bed to lay a two foot gauge railway up the glen as a tourist attraction, and that is where we are now. ;D

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[gtmspyder]

A little more modelling updates.

I split the layout to check that all the work I had previously done had not stuck the two halves together, and that the waterfall did part as intended.
It seems to have worked, the rebate formed by the piece of plastic overlapping the joint parted cleanly, and when back together does successfully hide the baseboard joint behind it.





Here are a few random photo's of the layout back together in it's present state.








The next photo shows another of my ways to hide the baseboard joints.
From the road, down towards the river, I have routed out the edge of the baseboard to a depth of 10mm or so and 10mm wide, when the boards are butted together, this forms a trench from road to river. I intend to put a JCB at this point with the shovel down into the trench, I have all ready modelled the waste from the trench down the side of the trench.  I will make some clay drain pipes and hope it will look as though the local highways dept. are laying a land drain from a road grate on the bend of the road where the water collects, and channelling it down into the river, thus instead of trying to hide the crack in the baseboards, I am drawing attention to it and using it as a cameo feature.
















Regards,

BrianT.

[petersmith1942]

those views along the layout are really good and I hope will remain available to viewers. Coming along really well
Peter Smith

[gtmspyder]

Can we call this progress do you think? :D



Regards,

BrianT.

[gtmspyder]

Or perhaps this one might be more to your taste? ::)



You will have to click on the picture to get any results, don't know if I have done this right :-\

Sorry about the noises off, I think it could be the autofocus motor hunting.

BrianT.

[gtmspyder]

 Hello again, I have not been completely idle during my absence from the forum.

You may recall this scene:-



This shows the trench excavated from the A85 road across the valley to the river Ogle below, ready to lay drain pipes from a surface water road grate on the A85 and divert it into the adjacent river.

Well this trench was excavated by one of the wonders of Mr J C Bamford, and Dapol/Airfix just happen to have a kit of a Mk3 JCB available, and for the princely sum of

[gtmspyder]

A little more progress.

The JCB is in it's digging position, although not finalised.



The drain pipes have been offloaded at the roadside.



A view up the baseboard.



In the back ground,  just before the tunnel, you can see the wayside halt under construction, and I really could do with some input from the members please with regard to this feature.



This is the proposed position for the wayside halt, where passengers can alight to view the scene, back down the Glen towards Loch Earn, and the village of Lochearnhead where they supposedly joined the train.



A small platform has been built by the volunteers, and a derelict signal box acquired, rebuilt and refurbished on site.



They have also acquired an old waiting room which could be sited on the platform?



Or as an alternative, a conservatory type building would be a cheap alternative as a waiting room?



Or even both as a caf