Glen Ogle

[gtmspyder]

Thank you Hugh, David, Graham et al for your commiserations and sound advice re my lengthy postings, it's just that I forget ::)

I've been planting the castle and attending to the Sea Loch water, I'm currently awaiting for some Pollyfiller to Dry/set, further pictures on the way soon.

I have taken delivery of a new laptop desk for my Xmas gift of a new laptop, and a load of new trees, all from the land of the Orientals, the desk was

[gtmspyder]

AS promised last night, a few pictures of my new acquisitions and further progress of Glen Ogle.

This is a view of my new purchases, new computer stand and Chinese trees.







And here is the view of the new work undertaken yesterday, the sea loch has had another coat of blue and a pasting over of PVA glue to seal it and hopefully put a few ripples on the water.  The floating greenery is from the new trees as I unpacked them for your delectation.



The girder bridge has had another coat of acrylic blue paint, the supporting piers have had a touch of colour, and a coat of matt varnish to seal it.



The castle has been planted and secured to it's Island with Polyfiller, and given a spray this time of matt varnish'



The castle has had a little more work on it, the courtyard has been paved in large flagstones, and a little more greenery added to the ivy.  More greenery is required in the form of grass growing in the flagstone cracks, I think maybe a self set tree some where, and the Island itself will have a colouring of colour and some growth.



The whole scene has acquired a little background colour to it, but there is lot's more to be done.



That's about it for today.

As this part of the layout makes no pretence at being part of the original Calendar to Oban line, at least at this part of it's original route, I fancy a mini Plocton village somewhere perhaps within the small board area, whitewashed cottages and a church perhaps, who knows how my feeble mind will progress this section of the layout, any thoughts any one?
And I do know that Plocton is on the old North British line to the Kyle of Lochalsh, and not the Caledonian line to Oban, but Plocton is a very pretty village and modellers licence and all that????

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[Jeff Schumaker]

It's all coming together nicely, Brian. I am particularly impressed with the castle ruins.

The trees from the Orientals are the most realistic I've seen in a while. Do you recall the company you purchased them from?

Jeff S.

[gtmspyder]

Here you are Jeff.

https://vod.ebay.co.uk/vod/FetchOrderDetails?transid=857124991022&itemid=351506263843&qu=1&ul_noapp=true

Regards,

BrianT.

[gtmspyder]

Here we go, and seeing it is Sunday, I thought we would go all religious on Glen Ogle.

I'm still toying with the idea of a little village, and every little village has a church of some kind, so here we have the makings of my interpretation of a Scottish village Kirk, I'm looking for a railway saint to call it, so ideas please?

In the after Christmas sales at the garden centres we visit on our outings, ( tea and a sticky bun type gardening is my type of gardening ), I had noticed that a lot of them were selling laser cut plywood models of Christmasy type buildings, especially churches, at very reasonable prices  Now being a very lazy modeller, I looked more closely at there offerings, and decided to purchase one, without it's seemingly obligatory covering of snow, and see what could be done with it.  So here we go.

The model came with a plywood base that included a depiction of a fir tree and santa, so these and the front protruding base board were Stanley knifed off, I like to model doors ajar, and that was very tricky as I had to cut down the laser scribed line down the middle of the double doors, and round the door edges, until the right hand door of the pair could be separated from the model.



I scribed around the laser lines of all the other windows as well, as I was not sure how steady my hand was going to be if I tried painting the frames, and hope the scribing would help later.


     
I temporarily fitted the cut out door in place with a bit of blue tack to try it.



I wanted the building to have a white washed render effect, so set about trying to achieve this.  I coated the wall with varnish and sprinkled on dry Polyfiller powder, but this proved unsuccessful, so a plan

[Jeff Schumaker]

Here you are Jeff.

https://vod.ebay.co.uk/vod/FetchOrderDetails?transid=857124991022&itemid=351506263843&qu=1&ul_noapp=true

Regards,

BrianT.

The link wouldn't work for me, Brian. Do you happen to recall the ID of the seller. I could look it up that way.

Jeff S.

[gtmspyder]

Sorry about that Jeff, try this one, someone on the other forum had difficulty with the first one I posted, but says this second link has worked for him,

 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10Pcs-12cm-Green-Tree-Model-Train-Railway-Layout-Wargame-Architectural-Scenery/291556043183?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D40760%26meid%3Dc8ecc61f9ea44a0982e9563620b964a7%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D351506263843

Regards,

BrianT.

[Scottish Modeller]

Sorry about that Jeff, try this one, someone on the other forum had difficulty with the first one I posted, but says this second link has worked for him,

 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10Pcs-12cm-Green-Tree-Model-Train-Railway-Layout-Wargame-Architectural-Scenery/291556043183?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D40760%26meid%3Dc8ecc61f9ea44a0982e9563620b964a7%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D351506263843

Regards,

BrianT.

Hi Brian,

I think this is the one you mean?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=351506263843

At least - that's one of the sellers ID's that I have been using.

No problems experienced.

I think most of the trees lack height for anything based on 3.5mm or 4mm to the foot and I've only used them for t2mm or N Gauge since buying some.

Thanks

[Jeff Schumaker]

The link worked, but the seller does not post to the US. Oh, well.

Jeff S.

I went searching on US Ebay and found trees that were pretty much the same and ordered two different types. Thanks for the information, Brian.

[gtmspyder]

A further update on Glen Ogle, a little scenery work today, no descriptions because I, am tired, just a series of updated views.



 

 











There you go, looks a little different??

Still the possible village triangle to sort out, waiting for inspiration, and a railway oriented St....... for the church name.

Regards,

BrianT.

[Graeme Dunbar]

Still the possible village triangle to sort out, waiting for inspiration, and a railway oriented St....... for the church name.

It is looking good!

I'm not sure about railway-related saints, but here is a list of saints with connections to Scotland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints_of_Scotland

[gtmspyder]

Good morning Graham and thank you for the list.

I think I'll go with St Fillans, a Village on the line next door to Lochearnhead was called St Fillans, with the line whose builder company evades me at the moment, made a junction at Balquider with the Callendar and Oban line, so that's near enough for my purposes, I was going to make one up, but I'll not bother now, thank you.

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[gtmspyder]

The phantom village chapel alterations, now known as St Fillans.







Regards,

brianT.

[gtmspyder]

In a recent thread I said that the NBR ran through Plockton to Kyle of Lochalsh.

I got this statement wrong, the furthest north the NBR got on the west coast was the Mallaig line. "The Skye line" was a part of the Highland Railway and started from Inverness.

In my defence, I did say modellers licence and all that, LOL.  But thank you Kevan for correcting my mistake, although I should have known better as I have the story of the building of all three west cost lines somewhere.

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[clayliner]

I agree, Brian - those trees are impressive, especially at that price. I am about to start (or at least I'm thinking about) making some pine trees but if they are available 'out of the box' they'd be tempting, though I do like to have a go myself before resorting to buying.

That kirk was a good buy, too. Yes, every church (and that includes kirks!) should have an open door, though these days that can be difficult (security and all that, sadly).

David.
P.S. You've reminded me that it's time I did some actual modelling again!