HO Eine Sekundärbahn

[Tim Hale]

Testing the homemade scenic mat, the basket liner was cut into strips and dusted with MatteMedium before the static grass was drizzled on. It will be used where the static gun was ineffective and left bare patches on sloping ground and up against the backscne, a thinner base of industrial paper towel has also worked well. An added bonus is to gently apply glue to the grass and dust with fine flock, it makes excellent weeds.

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Tim

 

[Tim Hale]

This tiny (just 11mm long) pump and cistern for the allotment was challenging, the mouldings were excellent once the excess was removed but the water was rather tiresome.

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Rather than anything simple, the appearance of green, murky water was achieved by painting the inside of the tank a rather fetching cockpit green and then copius blobs of Kristal Klear were added which took five days in the sun-baked conservatory to set hard but it has the appearance of both depth and being liquid.


Tim

 

[Tim Hale]

Though still unfinished, the farmhouse is finally beginning to come to life as it is surrounded by greenery. There is a fine display of flowering hydrangeas at the base of the front wall but the slight 'untidiness' is utterly intentional for a working farm. In recent years, farmhouses in Oberfranken have become desireable homes for incomers, they are invariably very tidy.

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[Tim Hale]

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I couldn't resist just plonking the old tractor down beside the stable with some wild flowers, it still needs bedding-in but we just returned from a bimble around the lanes and felt it appropriate.

The stable (and farmhouse) are to be found within 25kms of Ebermannstadt as are almost* all the features on Pottendorf, well worth the effort rather than a generic layout.

Tim

*The cottage is the exception but it bears a remarkable likeness to a tiny fachwerkhaus (below) in the Bad Windsheim museum, also in Franken, Faller offer the building but so far it has eluded me.

 

[Tim Hale]

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Just a trial placing in order to see how it all the various buildings fit with each other, the idea was taken from an image on DSO of a farm near Berching-Plankstetten.

Please note, nothing is finished, there is a great deal of work to be done, if there are mistakes, it is best to find them now. For example, I do not like the silo, it is ugly maybe a tree would be a more 'natural' feature.

Tim