Angst Lesspork

[Hugh Norwood]

Fallen into temptation and decided to introduce my layout, which is a tribute to a certain set of books...

Here are a couple of photos taken at a meeting of LAMPOONS when Darryl kindly let me set it up in his front room. Since then work a=has been sporadic, but I have fixed one building in place, redeisgned Lord Snapcase's cruet set (again), built "The Bounty" as a waterline model, and other things...

I'll try to remember to update here.

[Graeme Dunbar]

Ook!  ;D

[vulcan]

Ook!  ;D

That's a thought, what figure(s) are you going to modify to portray the Librarian????? :D

Ken

[Hugh Norwood]

I commissioned an orang utan from Karen Rush, who does bespoke animals

Dwarfs, of course, come from the war gaming fraternity...

[DeadHorse]

I made a waterline model of the Titanic.
All you need is a sheet of ripple glass. :-)
Just a thought.....................

[Hugh Norwood]

Evolution of a cruet set

Those of you familiar with A-M will know that one of the big tourist attractions is Mad Lord Snapcases's Cruet set.

Designed by BS Johnson with his usual flair for disregarding scale, the pepper pot is used as a grain store and the salt cellar houses four families.

Now, I had to have these on the layout, and a lot of silver cruets are very architectural and one can see how they may well scale up nicely into buildings.

I built a prototype (i.e. a test) salt cellar. Although I liked the shape, it was obviously too small to house four families, and the windows weren't right. (pic 1)



A redesign produced the set with the square bases. I got as far as undercoating these. The domes are a the ball from a roll-on deodorant bottle cut in half. I was happy with these, and was thinking about getting some owls - say 7mm scale? to sit on each corner of the top of the ground floors. The domes have hole in the top - after all, they are for salt and pepper. The holes make "P" on the pepper pot and "S" on the salt cellar. I put chimneys on the dome of the salt cellar, but I was not really satisfied they "worked".
(pic 2)


The situation stayed like that for some time, until I was well on with the baseboards, and I arranged end pieces for the layout that allow the two halves to be secured face to face with a large gap between. This lets me have tall buildings that interleave - the temptation was to make the cruet set even taller - so back to the drawing board.

I have gone back to a round base again. The windows on the salt cellar are from Grandt lines - they are H0 technically. All the doors, by the way, are Chivers. The pillars are bamboo barbecue skewers cut up. There are holes on the domes again, but this time one large hole on the salt cellar - could double up as a chimney, and a pattern of smaller hols on the pepper pot.
(pic3)




(modified 16 Feb 2013 to use external images rev 24 June 2020 to use imgur)

[Hugh Norwood]

A new pic of the layout:

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[JulienW]

B.S. Johnson would be proud!

Very nice Hugh - when do we get to see it in the flesh?

[Hugh Norwood]

It'll be at the next S Yorks group meeting on 18 Oct...
If it doesn't go up in flames(!) I'll need to build a _lot_ more buildings to get it fit for
public viewing - oh and complete the ballasting, and... and...

[JulienW]

It'll be at the next S Yorks group meeting on 18 Oct...
If it doesn't go up in flames(!) I'll need to build a _lot_ more buildings to get it fit for
public viewing - oh and complete the ballasting, and... and...

Don't I know it ;) :D

Though you could take the "never finished layout" solution that it Latham's Brewery! ::)

[Hugh Norwood]

Long time no post, but I have been working on it...

I have cheated for the station and bought a couple of Honrby Skaledale buildings, but otherwise
cereal packets are still in use.

Here's a photo of the (a?) Watch House (with a cereal packet upper floor!) And yes that's a working blue light



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[Graeme Dunbar]

That's "made my day"  ;D

It's a great building.

[Isle of Stoner]

I love the look of your buildings but am ignorant as to the books which you alude to, could you enlighten me?

many thanks and keep it up, you can't have too much strangeness in railway modelling.

Cheer

John

[Hugh Norwood]

Terry Pratchett's Disk World series...

[Isle of Stoner]

Ah ha. Perhaps I will have to dip my toe in the water ontop of the turtle again. Read one years ago and didn't really get on with it but maybe the time is right for a retry several people I know love them.

Thanks

John