The second of this months pieces in BRM, and it's an article tied in with the modernised station from a couple of months ago. The build was this time to modify, customise, and personalise some Hornby retaining walls, the resin Ready to Plant ones.
Inspiration... those dark, huge retaining walls around Keighley...
...the sinuous brick around Llangollen Station...
...the overgrown slate walls of the Ffestiniog.
Here's a selection of what I had to work with- quite a lot of the walls, in different sizes. I was wondering what to do with so much ornate brickwork, and decided to turn for inspiration to the Stourbridge Town branch in the West Midlands; hence the choice of the Town station for the modernised steam-era station building article.
Chopping and modifying the walls; I'm quite paranoid about cutting resin, though with the very good reason that the dust will shred your lungs. I was also masked up for this, with the workshop door open.
I did some painting- fairly rough and ready, but these were going to be very heavily weathered.
Limescale deposits and various colour washes; Citadel acrylics, as usual.
Metal security fencing from Ratio platform fences.
Plan for the graffiti; as with the coach graffiti article a few issues back, using my own characters and designs.
This month's Hidden Hallie.
A bit of greenery added to the walls. These are meant to be in use, if neglected, on a barely-surviving branchline.
The diorama; at this stage when this article was shot, the station hadn't been added.
Dumped rubbish from odds and ends in the scrapbox.
A Mystery Door.
...and here it is, the article. I'll admit to not being one hundred percent happy with this one, it turned into a bit of a rush in the end, and there's odd bits I could have re-done, but hey-ho. The eventual plan is to upcycle these walls into a micro layout for the Hornby Collectors Club later in the year, so at least I'll get a second shot at this.
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