Wencombe /Kingsbridge Regis/Louville Lane

[Alan]

Started on some more buildings this last weekend (it would help if I finished the Goods shed and the train shed but hey ho).

A warehouse for the local fish co-operative and a hotel, they are both kit-bashed American and continental kits. The warehouse started life as the Walthers Grocery Distribution centre(you may see more bits later in the layout build), and the hotel started life as a Kibri kit. Both as yet unfinished, but passed the half way mark. The boats in the warehouse shots is roughly where the harbour wall will be when I get to cut the hole in the baseboard. The new water level will be about 3 inches below the present baseboard level.

 

[Alan]

More work on the two buildings today. Represented the inside of the hotel (thank goodness for lots of net curtains being around in the late50's and early60's) and apart from some detailing the fish market is finished.

 

[Alan]

Almost there with the Sea View, just ridge tiles and flashing.

 

[Alan]

now with ridge tiles and flashing.

 

[Alan]

Having discovered some long forgotten Metcalf and Superquick buildings I thought I'd put them on the layout to see what the station square might look like.

 

[oldravendale]

Lovely, except........ you need some great concrete and glass monstrosity somewhere in the middle for which the local council will have received a "consideration".......

Brian

 

[Alan]

I've started the harbour section of Kingsbridge Regis.
The bull was taken by the horns or the jigsaw was taken by the handle after much prevarication and work has begun, the hole has been cut. The side trimmed to the required depth. more photos to follow as work progresses.

 

[Alan]

Today I decided to start the harbour as I have been prevaricating for some weeks. This morning I cut the hole, put first a photo of the bare board.

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This afternoon between the Grand Prix and the Rugby I put in the stretchers for the base of the harbour and the laid the harbour bottom on and then added some boats to see what it might look like. No harbour walls as yet, I feel I deserve a pint!!!!!!!!.

 

[Alan]

I must apologise for the repeat post, I thought the original one had not posted.

 

[Alan]

A little more work on the harbour, sides filled with foam board and are now awaiting the stone work. Also facia re-shaped and screwed back in place.

 

[Alan]

I have for some time been wondering what to do with the two plaster cast cottages seen in the background of the above pictures. I decided that I needed a row of fisherman's cottages so sawed the two in half length wise which gave me a row of four cottages. The photo shows them roughly in position immediately after cutting up.
They will eventually be painted white.

 

[Alan]

Stone sheets arrived today so decided to get on with it. Now just need painting/weathering.

 

[Alan]

As a change from modelling I thought I might run my latest acquisition. Another green Heljan Western, rather too pristine at the moment, renamed Western Sovereign, arriving at Kingsbridge with the down South Devon.

 

[Alan]

More work has been done on the harbour. I'd say it's just over half finished.

 

[JimG]

Alan,

Where did you source the boats?

Jim.

 

[Alan]

The boat in front of the cottages is the Bachmann trawler (comes with full haul with detachable waterline), The 2 in front of the fish shed are Harburn Models, the one in front of the warehouse came as a fully rigged trawler at Pecorama the 2 small dinghies from Langleys and the one next to the slipway I cannot remember. They all need working on, mooring post perhaps a repaint and weathering and for the fishing boats registration numbers on the bows.

 

[Alan]

I've been working on one of the boats, trying to make it a bit more of a model than the a cast lump of Resin.

It started out looking like this: sorry for th quality of the photo it was taken some 10years or so ago on my old layout. It was bought at Pecorama




When that layout was dismantled I gave it to a friend who dis-masted it and made it into a small coaster/barge.





When he decided he didn't need it any more it came back to me. So I decide it was rather small for a coaster (it's a scale 40ft long). I didn't like the over deep planking so I filled them in and rubbed back and painted it black, the I realised how awful the wheel house looked so cut it off and made a new from plasticard. I also removed the rudder.



More work still needs to done to finally make it into a house boat.

 

[Alan]

Back to the harbour and quay side. I worked on the quay side capping today. I used 3mm foamboard from redundant information panels from the Museum I volunteer at. At the moment nothing is stuck down so the setts may alter.

 

[Alan]

Harbour quay capping has been done and had its first coat of weathering and the "water" has had an accidental thin first coat.









And finally a water level pic.



Now I can carry on with the boats.

 

[Alan]

Some more work done on the boats, A bit of repainting, Navigation lights added or painted and Registration Numbers added. Kingsbridge did not have any Reg. numbers, so I used the normal convention of the first and last letters of the port, luckily nobody was using KE, so I did.