Colin Peake - Model Making http://colinpeake.fotopic.net/ 4 rows en-gb 60 Past Projects - O9 http://colinpeake.fotopic.net/c1615075.html My earliest models in O9 (7mm scale on 9mm gauge, representing 15" gauge) were coaches built using sides from Keil Kraft Routemaster bus kits, obtained very cheaply years ago. Motive power came in the form of a Bachmann powered conversion of the Dapol railbus and Drewery Shunter (04) kits. All still survive, some rebuilt and others not in everyday use. Other diesels that have passed through the workshops include one donated by well known plasticard modeller Clive Mortimer, which after a second rebuild still operates on Shifting Sands. 'Robin Hood' was sold during a lull in O9 modelling but has visited the layout since, whilst other smaller locos have been built and reached the primer stage before being sold on. 'Beach Halt' was built for a friend who wanted a little slice of my O9 layout 'Shifting Sands'. Similar technique and materials were used to the main layout. Sunday 23 November 2008: My earliest models in O9 (7mm scale on 9mm gauge, representing 15" gauge) were coaches built using sides from Keil Kraft Routemaster bus kits, obtained very cheaply years ago. Motive power came in the form of a Bachmann powered conversion of the Dapol railbus and Drewery Shunter (04) kits. All still survive, some rebuilt and others not in everyday use. Other diesels that have passed through the workshops include one donated by well known plasticard modeller Clive Mortimer, which after a second rebuild still operates on Shifting Sands. 'Robin Hood' was sold during a lull in O9 modelling but has visited the layout since, whilst other smaller locos have been built and reached the primer stage before being sold on. 'Beach Halt' was built for a friend who wanted a little slice of my O9 layout 'Shifting Sands'. Similar technique and materials were used to the main layout.

Motorising a donated shunter using a Roco HOe chassis unit. The completed loco, kown as the 'Yellow Perril'! A big bogie diesel from a Bachmann US loco. Body incorporates bus and loco kit parts plus other oddments. The completed loco was named Robin Hood, painted in two-tone green. My O9 test track, Peco Setrack on a cork notice board. Testing (playing) with my early O9 models. Dapol 04 leftovers were incorporated into this scratchbuilt loco. This loco also ued the Roco chassis, detail parts were mainly A1 models parts. A second loco, built as an older looking machine. This loco used a Farish 08 chassis as it's basis. Cutting up Routemaster bus kits to make coachside panels. Assembling the sides using Plastruct girder and strip. Roof is from more Routemaster parts! An assembled coach body, plus the chassis unit made from pasticard. My first O9 diesel, from Dapol Railbus/04 kit parts. 'Beech Road' was a Diorama built using methods similar to those on Shifting Sands. Another little i/c loco, this time designed for a Kato chassis. This loco used up several oddments during it's build. A Heywood inspired coach based around some station seats.

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]]> Sun Nov 23 2008 Past Projects - 4mm Scale http://colinpeake.fotopic.net/c1604225.html A few photos of past 4mm scale projects: Padgate Lane was a mid-1980s BR Wagon Repair Depot built on two boards, total size 6' 2" by 1'. The layout featured in Model Trains International magazine issue 43 and is now owned by by David Martin of the LYDCC group and can sometimes be seen at exhibitions in the North West. Grimbling is a 4mm scale industrial diesel shunter, mush modified from a Knightwing kit. Westwood Arches was a diorama built for a competition that never happened, but proved a useful photographic prop. It is now in private hands. Saturday 1 November 2008: A few photos of past 4mm scale projects: Padgate Lane was a mid-1980s BR Wagon Repair Depot built on two boards, total size 6' 2" by 1'. The layout featured in Model Trains International magazine issue 43 and is now owned by by David Martin of the LYDCC group and can sometimes be seen at exhibitions in the North West. Grimbling is a 4mm scale industrial diesel shunter, mush modified from a Knightwing kit. Westwood Arches was a diorama built for a competition that never happened, but proved a useful photographic prop. It is now in private hands.

A major change in the life of the layout was the renewal of the industrial buildings in the centre of the layout. Another change was to add advertising hoardings to screen off part of the backscene area. The final major change was to add a canopy over the WRD stores building platform, incorporating some Triang Hornby parts. 25213 leaves a scrao wagon outside the gate at the end of the headshunt. Two 08s and an 'Air Piped' brake van in the old factory siding. A glance in the factory yard, where road haulage is now the order of the day. 08884 outside the amenities building, one of the clear plastic uncouplers can be seen lower left. 47341 stables in the old factory siding, an excuse for a larger loco on a small layout. The siding is also used by the engineers department for stabling short trains between jobs. One of the last wagons I built for Padgate Lane was this internal user, ex-Grampus. A conversion of the Knightwing shunter kit into a smaller machine on a Tenshodo Spud power unit. This incorporates the suspension from a Dapol railbus kit in place of the kit originals. Many of the smaller parts were painted seperately before fixing them into place. The completed loco seen on the Westwood Arches diorama, a typical industral scene. Westwood Arches was named after the location of the Hornby factory, who's arches formed the basis of the scene. A view across the completed diorama which was on two levels. The scenes was ideal for staging close-up photography, such as this mid-80s view. As with Padgate Lane, there were plenty of details to be found. At the opposite end of the layout the yard area is empty, it was later filled with clutter. Padgate Lane seen under construction, the amenities building to the left was scratchbuilt. The layout gave plenty of space for small cameos, such as this forklift truck in the WRD yard. 08884 shunts a VEA van modified from the original Parkside 'Vanwide', long before the VEA kit was released. Shunting the yard, buildings in the background from City Classics and Kibri, modified to fit the site. 25213 with a 'Cemflow' wagon, a much modified Triang item with axleguards from an Airfix 'Prestwin'.

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]]> Sat Nov 1 2008 A Little Bit of Gn15 http://colinpeake.fotopic.net/c1401226.html Having decided to set myself the task over the winter (2007) of finishing off some of my half started projects from the past, the first restarted project is a Gn15 diesel loco I started over two years ago. This lost it's original chassis frame and 'Black Beetle' power unit a while ago and I have rebuilt it on a chassis from a Dapol Drewery shunter (04) kit. This is now a static model, ideally suited to a small diorama. Small details are quite easy in a large scale, one of the touches I have applied to this loco is a torn cab seat, this is made using cotton wool stretched out over plasticard, then covered in ordinary tissue. Once set I gave it a coat of plastic slurry and once that had set I used a knife point to slash the seat. I like the 'feel' of working in Gn15 but as yet I haven't actually finished anything in the scale, this is down to a lack of creative thinking on my part. The supply of bits and pieces in store has increased so the day can't be far off! Friday 11 January 2008: Having decided to set myself the task over the winter (2007) of finishing off some of my half started projects from the past, the first restarted project is a Gn15 diesel loco I started over two years ago. This lost it's original chassis frame and 'Black Beetle' power unit a while ago and I have rebuilt it on a chassis from a Dapol Drewery shunter (04) kit. This is now a static model, ideally suited to a small diorama. Small details are quite easy in a large scale, one of the touches I have applied to this loco is a torn cab seat, this is made using cotton wool stretched out over plasticard, then covered in ordinary tissue. Once set I gave it a coat of plastic slurry and once that had set I used a knife point to slash the seat. I like the 'feel' of working in Gn15 but as yet I haven't actually finished anything in the scale, this is down to a lack of creative thinking on my part. The supply of bits and pieces in store has increased so the day can't be far off!

Taken in May 2005, the starting point for my Gn15 project. Just about everything has changed, cab roof lowered, bonnet extended, new chassis. The coupler pockets are from the Sidelines range, whilst the new chassis is from the Dapol 04 kit. A look at the cab, I removed the old door to show a detailed interior. Most of the accessories are again Sidelines castings. I added bolt heads from slithers of plastic rod in two sizes. The exhaust is a length of brass tube, I need to add a grille after painting. A side view, wheels will be added after painting. 7th November: A coat of paint (or two or three) makes a lot of difference. A view into the cab, detail parts have been painted seperately. 11th November: With the wheels now in place, weathering was next on the agenda. The weathering consists of a wash of light blue to fade the colour, then drybrushing with various shades. The eagle eyed will spot a replacement pin on the rear wheel. I'n not sure where the original went! A view of the diorama, Peco track on a CD base with Green Scene leaf litter. 1st January: Pretty much complete, the loco sits on a micro-diorama. The cab interior components have now all been fitted in place. A close up of the cab seat complete with ripped cover. On the front end I added a coupler bar and retaining pin made from scraps of brass.

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]]> Fri Jan 11 2008 Layout in a Boxfile http://colinpeake.fotopic.net/c1348714.html Having sold my 00 gauge layout earlier in the year I found myself in need of a test track for my 00 locos and somewhere to have a spot of shunting from time to time. Inspired by, amongst other things Neil Rushby's layout featured in Railway Modeller, I decided to have a go. The box file has it's base raised with a combination of balsa wood and foam core, with a trackbed from foamcore with a layer of cork over. The extension board is from foam core with a ply frame to bolt it to the box file. The sector plate is from 60 thou plasticard. Track is Peco code 75. My visual concept is the boundary between a scrap yard and BR in the Sheffield area, with a high fence forming one end of the layout. My reason for choosing scrap as a traffic was that I could have this high fence along the edge of the box, and traffic would also be carried in 16T mineral wagons, which have a slight length advantage! Saturday 3 November 2007: Having sold my 00 gauge layout earlier in the year I found myself in need of a test track for my 00 locos and somewhere to have a spot of shunting from time to time. Inspired by, amongst other things Neil Rushby's layout featured in Railway Modeller, I decided to have a go. The box file has it's base raised with a combination of balsa wood and foam core, with a trackbed from foamcore with a layer of cork over. The extension board is from foam core with a ply frame to bolt it to the box file. The sector plate is from 60 thou plasticard. Track is Peco code 75. My visual concept is the boundary between a scrap yard and BR in the Sheffield area, with a high fence forming one end of the layout. My reason for choosing scrap as a traffic was that I could have this high fence along the edge of the box, and traffic would also be carried in 16T mineral wagons, which have a slight length advantage!

3rd June: Track laid, wired and tested. A view of the sector plate, made from plasticard! One of my 08s on test. Testing the sector plate. Shunting the front siding. 9th June: Track painted. 10th June: Track balasted and inset areas filled. Close up of the track, re-spaced Peco code 75. Close up of the area to be inset. 19th June: Retaining walls in place. The captive nut that holds the bolt. I have cut away the front of the box to allow a clearer view in. Close-up of one of the bolt holding the sector plate in place. 24th June: The retaining walls have been varnished and weathered. A comparison of the weathered (R) and untreated (L) walls 8th July: The original plan for the wall and building. 21st July: The new fencing made to measure and primed for painting. The building turned through 90 degrees and completed. 12th August: Progress! Fence painted and in place. A close up of the gae with photographic image behind. The building in it's new home. This is removeable. Trying out two S-kits sofas for size on the wasteland. An extension to the building from Townscene and Builder Plus parts. 20th August: An assortment of junk, trying out different arrangements. Abandoned domestic appliances from S-Kits 'junk' pack. Gravestones from Hornby's Scaledale range, grass from Silfor. A cut-down Ratio concrete fence marks the end of the graveyard. Spear fencing will seperate the graveyard from the railway. 27th August: The pipe bridge under construction to hide the fiddle yard exit. This is a small scratchbuilding project from girder, pipe and styrene section. The completed and painted pipe bridge in place. 19th September: The clutter eventually got stuck into position. 22nd September: Trying out some photos from magazines as a backscene. 12th October: The pictures cut and stuck to the backscene with some hills painted in the distance. At the end of the layout piles of scrap and distant hills were added behind the fence and existing backscene. An overall view of the layout - almost complete!

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