Project 26 - Hewish Gates #7

The display case was made from 1200 x 600 x 2mm Wickes Acrylic Sheet, cut with a Dremel and the panels glued together with Superglue. It is not fully dust proof as there is no rear acrylic panel or seals between it and the diorama.  At least it protects the model from finger poking damage.

I have in mind to make two improvements to the model, if I ever get around to doing so. 

The backscene should be professionally printed as one piece instead of the three I printed on A4 sheets. This will eliminate the joins and colour imbalance of the three sheets.

One of the level crossing gates takes on an angle when closed to the road. These gates were fabricated from two Airfix/Dapol level crossing sets (nothing wrong with that) long before I acquired a 3D resin printer. The resin printer now gives opportunity for a redesign to improve detail of the gates and their posts to represent the prototype more accurately and I'll take greater care in setting the gates uniformly.

One last posting in this series next.

To Part 1.

Card Kit of the Week

 A different model displayed here every week.

Loco Yard Sludge Filter (not the crane) click for details.

Project 26 - Hewish Gates #6

A photo of the prototype, taken from the other side of the level crossing, shows a glimpse of a small building next to the signal box. Not possible to see what it is for. It could be a lamp store or a privy. I opted for the later.

Telegraph poles in my photograph (right) look leaning more than they do.

On this side of the level crossing the landscape both sides of the railway line is embankment. The grass here is long and dry. This is achieved  by sticking old fashioned hairy carpet underlay down and when dry ripping it off. This leaves very high strands of material that is cut down using scissors. A layer of brown/green static glass is overlaid to fill any gaps and tone down the straw colour of the carpet underlay.

The white flowers were taken from an artificial plastic flower and the red poppies are proprietary scatter.

To Part 7.

To Part 1.