Stoneycombe, this weeks pics

Granitechops said:
The culvert is just a piece of copper pipe connected to the pump with a tight fitting styrene tube super glued in place & a styrene 'washer' cut with a circle cutting compass, solvented to the pipe & a ring of holes drilled & a spare nut & bolt loosely in one of the holes
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Hey, come on, lets have a little less of the JUST! It took thought and imagination, as well as application and a fair amount of skill to produce. I think it's superb, it really looks the part. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
Thanks for the encouraging comments,
well it looks like the artist, he/she has been busy

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The base for the OLD drain to the brook was this steel channel, 3" x 1.25"

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The base for the NEW meandering layout is this, a concrete base/lip tray, with a pond liner
membrane coated with a layer of hypertuffa

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Your line oozes atmosphere. I like the way that without pedantic modelling you create a little world as opposed to a model of one. It has the Peter Jones about it.
 
CoggesRailway said:
Your line oozes atmosphere. I like the way that without pedantic modelling you create a little world as opposed to a model of one. It has the Peter Jones about it.
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Ian,. thank you, I take that as a real compliment.
His work was one of my inspirations, & stayed in my mind for decades before I began my own railway
Back in the 80s, I remember reading many a railway modeler, & reading articles about layouts, and going, "mmh, yes, ok," Then I read his account of how he built his quarry/rock face & the 'fun' he & his friends had in placing the concrete building he cast up on the top of it. I remember thinking, yes a handful of gravel, a few rocks a cliff 6 ins high, may be representive of a landscape, ( and can be effective), but he had gone beyond that
Having worked into a few quarries when a lorry driver, I noticed that you had to turn your head sideways through at least 120 degrees to see the landscape & at least 90 degrees verticaly.
I think subconsciously that is what I have sought to achieve, a vista that you cant take in at a glance, with cameo scenes that you can come on suddenly, but blend in with the surrounding landscape as well, & that keeps you turning your head as you walk on

Well it keeps my interest, And I find that if due to the weather, or my health I cant get out there for months, I dont think, not playing with it, waste of time, rip it up
No, as its actually maturing, weathering naturally, blending in all together without much further input from me.
I noticed yesterday that the hypertuffa showing through the gravel in the river bed is already turning green after only a couple of weeks

Edit;- I hope that doesnt sound pretentious, it was not meant to be.
 
It looks really nice that - the flowing water, the slippery moss covered stones - great:thumbup:
 
The plants have settled in, the bright green clump bottom left is a variety of moss, whilst the bigger plant with all the leaves is "Mind your own business"
or Soleirolia Soleirolii, or babys tears

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But the sword like leaves to the right (cant remember its name) have grown too tall about 10ins, they were only 3ins when planted in a dry spot, but the freely available water which runs through the the gravel its rooted in has accelerated its growth.
So that will be relocated.
Got an idea for something else that will look like water reeds I hope, watch this space, probably be about 2 weeks I recon
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WOW!! Flowing real water just adds so much panache to the railway.....
 
Some lovely photos there Don. I was down your way a few weeks ago and called in at the Garden Railway at the South Devon Railway. Had a lovely chat with the chap doing the woodwork on the line extension.....and the bridge!

Will be trying to twist SWMBO's arm to let me go to the Exeter Show.


Have really missed your photos as along with Mel your a great inspiration to those of us trying to replicate a miniature world.
 
Thanks for all your comments chaps I appreciate it.
What I really revel in, in my state of vegitative health, being now unable to do great energetic things, is to set something going & watch, with no effort on my part, the natural process of creation develop & unfold & enhance the little things that I have started
 
Andy Worsfold said:
Some lovely photos there Don. I was down your way a few weeks ago and called in at the Garden Railway at the South Devon Railway. Had a lovely chat with the chap doing the woodwork on the line extension.....and the bridge!

Will be trying to twist SWMBO's arm to let me go to the Exeter Show.


Have really missed your photos as along with Mel your a great inspiration to those of us trying to replicate a miniature world.
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Hi Andy, I sometimes get to run my trains there, only managed a couple of times this year.
I was there on Sat a couple weeks ago for the Gala weekend.
Any idea who you saw Graham? or maybe Dave?

I hope to be at the Exeter show on the 20th October, but wont be exhibiting.
Look forward to meeting you if you can make it
 
Monday morning, early after the Storm, while there was an occasional ray of sun, now gone
been out with camera
No trains down here recently
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Moss on the flank of the Weir
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other side with small wrecked boat in undergrowth
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Deserted canal Basin
there is a path for the wheelchair behind the viaduct & infront of the cupressus
The cupressus were replanted infront of an ugly fence when they got too big to be part of the lineside trees
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