I can just imagine a young Foggy, Clegg and Compo on the platform waiting for a parcel for one of their eccentric escapades. The layout looks like it’s coming on well, looking forward to the next stage of construction. Keep up the great work - Alex 🙂
Many modelers fail to put their buildings "into" the scenery and leave unrealistic spaces, where it is apparent they are placed "on" the layout. You hide the bottom edges of your structures so we know they have a foundation. When your dribbled the white glue into your coal bunkers it seemed to bead up until you brushed it into the coal. If I may suggest, a drop of liquid dish detergent into the glue and water mix breaks the surface tension of the water so it flows smoothly. Project is coming along very nicely, wizard!
Thanks Steve, appreciate it! As you say, those little things make a big difference. They were dummy rubber coal loads that come with the kit to save you a bit of coal - I put the real stuff on top of that. But you’re spot on the wishing you liquid works wonders.
Note take, note take, note take. The backdrop scenery you painted just looks amazing a few simple strokes of the brush and bingo sprawling Yorkshire moors.
Wow! So many comments. Don’t know how I missed this video first time round, but very glad I caught up with it. Absolutely brilliant work as always, Lewis. You are inspiring me to get back into the loft to progress my layout. Thanks. Roy.
I like how the stone wall looks planted into the ground. The buildings and scenery draw the eye into a world of imagination envisioned by a creative mind for the enjoyment of all.
Part 4 and it seems to be coming together so quickly now. Brilliant bit of airbrushing, you make it all look far to easy. Great job MR, roll on part 5 👍🚂
Thank you so much for this extremely useful and inspiring mini-series. Part 2 is especially useful as that’s the stage I’m rapidly approaching with my own layout. Thankfully I’ve been hoarding polystyrene and IKEA cardboard packaging over the last two years for this very purpose so it’s great to see how to make best use of them.
Waiting for the Thursday installment...! I tend to mute the sound (even if it’s quite good) and play some rural Delius, Bax, VW or Elgar instead ...Makes perfect match! Thank you for sharing your progress, as always, marvelous. Regards from SP.
A masterpiece every video. Can’t wait to see a loco running into the station on the “finished” product. Definitely should have a named service. Not related but just ordered the golden arrow train last steam run pack and can not wait for it to arrive. All the best Nick
Thanks Nick, always appreciate it. Very nice! I fancy getting a couple of Golden Arrow plates to go on the side of my Bullied pacific. Maybe it can pull the inaugural train!
I have seen yesterday aerial views of the Yorkshire Dales in preparation for my forthcoming mystery novel, and the overall landscape looks really like the ones in your layouts. Brilliant restitution ! By the way, great job with your track weathering, and nice to see from you that you can have convincing plank passages for near to zero penny, and easily too ! Always a great moment to come here to have a look, thanks for the splendid job gentleman !
Thank you Olivier, appreciate it. I always get an awkward look in Starbucks when grabbing a huge handful of stirrers, but it’s worth it as they do the trick!
Thanks for getting back to me about the songs you used, I managed to find them.. its looking amazing, I wish I had the time to be able to do something like this again.. and the space
Hi Lewis. I always thought that this would turn out to be a masterpiece in railway modelling, and you are now well on the way to achieving that. Looking at it now you have achieved a very nice balance between the railway and scenery, a very spacious and uncluttered overall appearance if I may say. Keep up the good work, cheers Chris.
Thank you Chris. I was tempted to add more track at one stage but I’m glad I didn’t in the end, as you say it’s a fine balance. Glad you like it so far 👍🏻
The station name is lovely sounds just right to me. I already posted one reply on Chas Tallis post who beat me to it. The other minor thing I noticed is the speed signs, these are painted yellow on the side facing the driver and black on the back. A few have commented on the tree height I planted a sycamore seed when we moved in here and now it towers above the garden higher than the house as you said people often do not model trees in full scale and I am sure it will look right when the rest are added. Really enjoyed seeing the update
Glad you like the name. Ah that’s a great point about the speed signs, I hadn’t realised that! I did wonder whether it sometimes got confusing, but that makes sense.
@@MouldyRaspberry It could be confusing yes. At least it is a simple fix, I also noticed but forgot to mention I see the signal box is now on firm ground That looks a lot more realistic now
I have to say mate, watching your work is genuinely emotional. It’s stunning mate. I love your skill you have and I wish I had this exact scene you have built for myself. I’d even pay you to make it for me. I need to have this level of layout one day. When I have my own place with space to do so it’s going to happen.
Can't tell you how much I'm enjoying watching this coming together. Will there be some Swaledales and a farm dog? And some worn areas in the gate holes? There's always trampled grass and ruts where the sheep move through, a collapsing gate (sadly all being replaced with galvy ones now) with a rusty chain, but with a few polished links. And some collapsed sections of walls, even back then, they needed maintaining. I guess oo scale plovers are out of the question?
Thank you! Good point about the trampled grass, I hadn’t thought of that! A farm dog is a must though, I think I might do a farm scene up on the hill above the tunnel.
Watching again for the 100th time 😂... The details you add are so good mate. I need to whip out the static grass fly swotter and stop putting it off. First I'll need to get the ballast done...just needed a kick up the backside 😂 👍 Scratch building looks really rewarding, i think ill have to scratch build the main station as cant find anything that will fit that doesnt look a bit naff 😮
Great progress Lewis. There seem to be some comments on the tunnel. Maybe you could try the 'mirror trick' so it shows the infinity ? But I'm sure you'll come up with the most convincing and evident solution. Curious though ! Sunny greetings (finally - after all the bad weather) from Le Berry / France. Filip
Thanks Filip. Yes either a mirror or a photo of the underside of the bridge/road tunnel. I’m sure I’ll figure something out but I’ll probably leave that it but and try a few things out. Glad you liked it and have some decent weather!
"Misselthwaite" sounds so profoundly "Yorkshirish" - even to me as a German ;-) Your layout comes along really nicely. Especially the weathering makes it look so realistic. The background merges nicely with the layout. If you permit me a tiny criticism: the tunnel disappearing underneath the railway line close to the signal box does not make sense to me. I wouldn't expect such a probably long tunnel built for a small country road. It would appear more plausible if the road would reappear just behind the station e.g. to allow access to a loading ramp.
Thanks Harald, it’s definitely very Yorkshiresque! That crossed my mind as well, but have a few of those sorts of long road tunnels here: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steventon,_road_tunnel_under_railway__-geograph.org.uk-__1162778.jpg There are a few just down the road from where I live. I imagine it coming out just the other side of the backscene, which saves me modelling it!
Somethingthwaite is very much west of the Pennines and north of Morecambe Bay - as in Satterthwaite, Seathwaite, Haverthwaite, Bassenthwaite, etc. I have to suppose the expanse of water called 'Misselthaite Lake' is behind the camera! Another great saga, Lewis. Keep the videos coming!
Misselthwaite Manor was the location Frances Hodgson Burnett's famous childrens book 'The Secret Garden' set on the Yorkshire Moors. I'm guessing that was Lewis's the inspiration for the name. A sequel written by another author, Susan Moody, is called 'Misselthwaite'.
A nice little layout and its great to see the transformation from bare modroc hills to nice green hills. May I ask 2 questions about the details? Looking at the Signalbox it would appear that there is no internal toilet, so where does our Signalman go for a pee and how does he keep the Signalbox warm during the cold days? I was a Signalman during the 1960’s on the old North Midland route. My Box was a Midland type Box were there was an outside toilet and a brick coal bunker. This bunker was kept topped up on a regular basis. An 08 with a 16T Mineral Wagon and a Brake Van would come along and the coal would be shovelled from the wagon into the bunker. This wee train would travel along the line stopping at every Box.
That’s a great point! I’ve left a space the other side of the signal box for a bunker etc, but didn’t think about a toilet! You’ll see one eventually, I can’t be having my signalman getting caught with his trousers down squatting in a bush as a train comes in...
@@MouldyRaspberry I have been beaten to it. I was also going to suggest you give the bobby some coal. As for a toilet we had a box with no running water or toilet Ironically it was right by the local water treatment works. It was only in the 80's they got a water supply and porterloo when health and safety regulations came in. I knew of 3 boxes like that, two had water brought by train from the next station in canisters so they had to make it last the day, the other the signalman had to walk to the local colliery to fill his water canisters.
I worked in a Box without running water, the lighting was by a paraffin lamp. Fresh water was brought in every other day along with the Special Notices. But it did have an outside toilet, also a detail I find missing on layouts with Signals is a Fog mans Hut and brazier.
@@Cuderth I never saw a box with paraffin lamps but was told about them. They still used the road works type lamps which had to be lit after dark for emergency use and the signalmen were very pleased to be issued with bardic lamps No more smelly lamps. That's a good point about the fog mans hut They were all over. I remember those in use and one with a lever to place the dets. Another place I went had a miniature bracket signal that worked. It had a attachment on the signal wire so repeated which arm was off showing the fogman which line to remove his dets from. I am not sure if it was preserved in the York rail museum
@@cedarcam As a box lad it was a duty I had to carry out every day, on the Afters Shift, check the paraffin and fill if required, check and trim the wicks if required. I got to be a dab hand at twisting the lamp to show different colours.
This looks more and more amazing. Just need a few figures and vehicles and it's ready to tour in exhibitions. A small remark though : the end cardboard wall in the road tunnel mouth is a dead giveaway that it is not trough. I'd take a picture trougn a bridge somewhere in the local area and glue a print that had colors faded via a program like Gimp to give the illusion it goes trough... hope it's still possible, else you can try painting it black then cut the print using a bridge or tunnel face as a template before gluing the half-circle image into place.
Thanks Eric, appreciate it! I haven’t finished that bit yet and I’ve got a few ideas - but your suggestion of a photo is great! I think I’ll try that. I was thinking of a mirror before that. Thanks again!
There's something very peaceful and calming about your videos that's wonderfully relaxing and leaves me with a sense of serenity. It's like a window into the very best bits of the age of steam. I always watch them whilst enjoying a nice mug of tea (Yorkshire of course) and a biscuit, or slice of home-made cake (carrot today). Bliss! P.S. Any particular reason why you've moved from scratch built kitty litter walls to shop bought? Speed and convenience, just a more generous budget available, or an aesthetic decision?
That’s my favourite tea/cake combo - good choice! Nothing in particular, but as this layout is so much smaller I thought I’d try something different and I do like the look of them, especially close up. I’d never have used them on the other layout, it would have cost a fortune though!
Hi. Such a great video. Very helpful seeing the different stages. Love the music that acompanies this. Could you let me know where I can get it? Many thanks.
When I finally create a fixed railway I'll give you a call!! Don't worry, far too many 'family projects' before that's likely to happen!! That rolling hillside looked like Saddleworth the other year - apologies to anyone affected, just totally barren, prior to being totally transformed - as usual, fantastic job. Thanks for sharing! Was that 94xx a little unsteady initially or was it just me? Al.
Thanks Al. That’s a good point, it absolutely does! Ah well spotted, I noticed that when editing it - it’s a recording of a recording (from a previous video) so it messed up a bit I think.
Hello Lewis It is all starting to come together very nicely now. I am very impressed with the dry stone walling as it looks the dogs kahooners on my screen. Is it easy to mould to how you want it? Love the name of the station, very Yorkshire. Stay safe, keep sharing and model on. Regards Lee@NEAR
Thanks Lee. Its foam so super easy to paint and shape to the scenery. But pricey though, but okay for a smaller layout. Osbourne Models sell it in Devon. Glad you like the name 👍🏻
Simply fantastic. Together with Peaks47, your original layout forms the inspiration for my own new design, an 8 inch by 8 foot "wall shelf" ... is there any way I can send you a PDF of my Anyrail design? I'd really appreciate your comments ...
Another brilliant video mate. Love watching your work. I think it’s absolutely amazing!! Love seeing the progress of your new layout and how quickly it’s coming along. I’d love for my new layout to turn out as good as yours. I do have a question. Where do you get your large trees from? Do you make them yourself?
Thanks Jon, appreciate it. Yep I make them. I’ll try and include that in the next video, but I’m pretty sure there is a ‘how to’ already on the channel somewhere. It’s just twisted wire, covered in DAS modelling clay, then seafoam glued onto the branches. Then I spray them brown, spray the branches with hairspray and sprinkle the scatter on. I’ve got absolutely loads to make so I’ll be adding them for a while...
It really looks the part ! nicely done. Time to get the old flycatcher static grass machine and put new batteries in to do some grassing on my own layout. Do you use any precautions to protect the electrics when using the static grass machine ?
I can just imagine a young Foggy, Clegg and Compo on the platform waiting for a parcel for one of their eccentric escapades.
The layout looks like it’s coming on well, looking forward to the next stage of construction.
Keep up the great work - Alex 🙂
Thanks Alex, appreciate it!
Many modelers fail to put their buildings "into" the scenery and leave unrealistic spaces, where it is apparent they are placed "on" the layout. You hide the bottom edges of your structures so we know they have a foundation.
When your dribbled the white glue into your coal bunkers it seemed to bead up until you brushed it into the coal. If I may suggest, a drop of liquid dish detergent into the glue and water mix breaks the surface tension of the water so it flows smoothly.
Project is coming along very nicely, wizard!
Thanks Steve, appreciate it! As you say, those little things make a big difference. They were dummy rubber coal loads that come with the kit to save you a bit of coal - I put the real stuff on top of that. But you’re spot on the wishing you liquid works wonders.
I'm really enjoying this little series of the new layout Lewis, it fascinates me how you bring it all together. All the best, Darren
Thanks Darren, glad you’re enjoying it.
Hi Lewis great work,Lovely scenic view of Yorkshire railway.G.🚂🚂🇬🇧
Thanks Big G! 👍🏻
What a wonderful layout. There is something timeless about a little branchline terminus.
Thank you. Agreed!
Very impressive - this is rail modelling as art!
Thanks!
Going all posh with the tailor made walls! Wot, no cat litter!!! ;-) Coming along nicely
They definitely don’t smell as nice as the cat litter walls...
@@MouldyRaspberry Or as absorbant! ;-)
You are basically the Bob Ross of model railways
Now I just need to grow my hair like his!
@@MouldyRaspberry You are now Mouldy *Rossberry*
Note take, note take, note take. The backdrop scenery you painted just looks amazing a few simple strokes of the brush and bingo sprawling Yorkshire moors.
Thank you 😀
Masterful work as always Lewis, well done, it's a pleasure to watch. Kind regards, Greg, NZ.
Thanks Greg!
Wow! So many comments. Don’t know how I missed this video first time round, but very glad I caught up with it. Absolutely brilliant work as always, Lewis. You are inspiring me to get back into the loft to progress my layout. Thanks. Roy.
Thanks Roy, glad you liked it!
I think I have to go with "what everyone else said"! its just so entertaining and informative.
Thanks Frank 👍🏻
It’s fascinating seeing the layout develop with your eye for detail.
Thanks James 👍🏻
Love your work, and the way you have edited the video is really great. Great to watch.
Thanks Andrew 👍🏻
Fantastic, another great video Lewis! With all the progress you've made it's given me a much needed kick up the bum to get on with my own layout 😂
Thanks mate. Ha glad I could be of some use!
Excellent as we come to expect Mr Raspberry. Wonderful to watch this coming alive. Cheers, Bob
Thanks Bob!
I love all the little details you’ve added. It really makes the layout appear so realistic!
Thanks Harry 👍🏻
Your creations are one of the true delights of UA-cam. Thank you for your continuing posts and the nostalgia they bring
Thank you!
I like how the stone wall looks planted into the ground. The buildings and scenery draw the eye into a world of imagination envisioned by a creative mind for the enjoyment of all.
Thank you! 😀
Stunning amazing work' great country scene, thanks for sharing.
Thanks Ralph!
Hi Lewis, the build is coming along nicely and it is the addition of the little items that brings the scene alive...congratulations. Cheers Greg
Thanks Greg!
I can't wait to see some terminus action going on here. Especially goods operations.
Me too!
The transformation is amazing, the music is beautiful. Thank you for a relaxing interlude.
Thank you Alistair 👍🏻
Love this. Great work keep the updates coming.
Thank you 👍🏻
Part 4 and it seems to be coming together so quickly now. Brilliant bit of airbrushing, you make it all look far to easy. Great job MR, roll on part 5 👍🚂
Thanks Ivan 👍🏻
Thank you so much for this extremely useful and inspiring mini-series. Part 2 is especially useful as that’s the stage I’m rapidly approaching with my own layout. Thankfully I’ve been hoarding polystyrene and IKEA cardboard packaging over the last two years for this very purpose so it’s great to see how to make best use of them.
Thanks Will. Good idea, that’s what I did as well!
a very nice job done with car and patience , thank you for this video
Thank you!
You are so bloody clever, you make everything look so easy
Ha thanks Barry!
Waiting for the Thursday installment...! I tend to mute the sound (even if it’s quite good) and play some rural Delius, Bax, VW or Elgar instead ...Makes perfect match!
Thank you for sharing your progress, as always, marvelous. Regards from SP.
Thank you, always appreciate it. I don’t blame you, i can imagine that goes very well!
SO impressed! Stunning!
Thanks Joe 👍🏻
Excellent progress and a great name!
Thank you!
Hiya Lewis, another great piece of work. It really is coming together now, cheers, Chris
Thanks Chris 👍🏻
you have made fantastic progress with the scenery
Thanks David 👍🏻
Einfach nur genial, du hast wirklich ein Händchen! 👍👌
Danke 😀
It's progressing beautifully. Thank you for sharing this. I love the music, too. Nice one.
Thanks Brian 👍🏻
What a lovely treat it is watching you create such a wonderful layout 😁
Thank you 😀
A beautiful diorama!
Thanks!
What fascinates us again and again, how you designed your background, really great!
Thank you 😀
Great progress it's looking top drawer -love watching you develop this project 😎😎😎
Thanks Mike 👍🏻
Brilliant mate, totally brilliant. By the way love the backing music to your videos as well.
Thank you Dave 👍🏻
A masterpiece every video. Can’t wait to see a loco running into the station on the “finished” product. Definitely should have a named service. Not related but just ordered the golden arrow train last steam run pack and can not wait for it to arrive. All the best
Nick
Thanks Nick, always appreciate it. Very nice! I fancy getting a couple of Golden Arrow plates to go on the side of my Bullied pacific. Maybe it can pull the inaugural train!
@@MouldyRaspberry Fox has some brilliant ones. I bought spares for my second Pacific
Dear Mouldy, thank you for episode four, super to see the development of this extension with the finer details. ‘Andsome’ as we say in Devon...
Thanks Martin!
I didn't want that to end. Amazing..right down to the well by the cottage. All the best.
Thanks Tim!
I have seen yesterday aerial views of the Yorkshire Dales in preparation for my forthcoming mystery novel, and the overall landscape looks really like the ones in your layouts. Brilliant restitution ! By the way, great job with your track weathering, and nice to see from you that you can have convincing plank passages for near to zero penny, and easily too ! Always a great moment to come here to have a look, thanks for the splendid job gentleman !
Thank you Olivier, appreciate it. I always get an awkward look in Starbucks when grabbing a huge handful of stirrers, but it’s worth it as they do the trick!
Thanks for sharing your usual great work 😁
Thanks greg!
Thanks for getting back to me about the songs you used, I managed to find them.. its looking amazing, I wish I had the time to be able to do something like this again.. and the space
Thanks Richie, glad you managed to find them!
Congratulations on your great talent.
You've made a great diorama 👌
Thank you!
fantastic video layout is looking awesome 👍
Thanks!
You've some really nifty kit there, will have to look into it. Cheers
Thanks Paul 👍🏻
Beautiful Lewis!! Just beautiful! Great job. Cheers Onno
Thanks Onno 👍🏻
Hi Lewis. I always thought that this would turn out to be a masterpiece in railway modelling, and you are now well on the way to achieving that. Looking at it now you have achieved a very nice balance between the railway and scenery, a very spacious and uncluttered overall appearance if I may say. Keep up the good work, cheers Chris.
Thank you Chris. I was tempted to add more track at one stage but I’m glad I didn’t in the end, as you say it’s a fine balance. Glad you like it so far 👍🏻
Misselthwaite! Coming along very nicely.
Thanks Jeff!
The station name is lovely sounds just right to me. I already posted one reply on Chas Tallis post who beat me to it. The other minor thing I noticed is the speed signs, these are painted yellow on the side facing the driver and black on the back. A few have commented on the tree height I planted a sycamore seed when we moved in here and now it towers above the garden higher than the house as you said people often do not model trees in full scale and I am sure it will look right when the rest are added. Really enjoyed seeing the update
Glad you like the name. Ah that’s a great point about the speed signs, I hadn’t realised that! I did wonder whether it sometimes got confusing, but that makes sense.
@@MouldyRaspberry It could be confusing yes. At least it is a simple fix, I also noticed but forgot to mention I see the signal box is now on firm ground That looks a lot more realistic now
Nice I enjoyed that. Quite relaxing to watch :) for as change I've done scenery before wiring up underneath.
Thank you 😀 Good to change it up every now and then.
Great work 👍
Thanks ✌️
@@MouldyRaspberry You're welcome
Superb work
Thanks 👍🏻
you do amazing work it's just outstanding
Thanks!
Coming along very well Mr Mouldy. Track looks very realistic. Make sure you send an inspection coach over before opening it to traffic! Good job. John
Thanks John. Good shout!
looks kinda wonderful, love to see the trains running on it ...
Thank you! I’m looking forward to filming some trains running on it.
looking good good job your layout is nice keep up the good work on it stay safe lee
Thanks Lee 👍🏻
Great layout and great scenery
Thanks Dennis 👍🏻
Mate this layout has had more happen to it than mine has in over a year! Keep up the good work! :D
Ha thanks Matthew!
Hello Missel Thwaite. Nice to meet you.
Hope you like the name Norman!
Lovely, amazing job! Greetings from Brazil(England was our school)!
Thank you very much!
Love the station name, great choice.
Thanks David 👍🏻
@@MouldyRaspberry Is it inspired by Misselthwaite Manor from 'The Secret Garden' which was set on the Yorkshire moors?
Yep thats exactly where it came from!
I have to say mate, watching your work is genuinely emotional. It’s stunning mate. I love your skill you have and I wish I had this exact scene you have built for myself. I’d even pay you to make it for me. I need to have this level of layout one day. When I have my own place with space to do so it’s going to happen.
Thanks very much matey, appreciate it. 👍🏻
This must be the more affluent railway with shop bought stone walling rather than the kitty litter style
Looks a bit nicer, but not as good at absorbing sheep poo.
Can't tell you how much I'm enjoying watching this coming together. Will there be some Swaledales and a farm dog? And some worn areas in the gate holes? There's always trampled grass and ruts where the sheep move through, a collapsing gate (sadly all being replaced with galvy ones now) with a rusty chain, but with a few polished links. And some collapsed sections of walls, even back then, they needed maintaining. I guess oo scale plovers are out of the question?
Thank you! Good point about the trampled grass, I hadn’t thought of that! A farm dog is a must though, I think I might do a farm scene up on the hill above the tunnel.
You make amazing sets bro 😉🙂
Cheers Ryan 👍🏻
...Wielki szacunek i podziękowania dla twórców... 👏👌👍 (h).
Excellent 👍👍
Thanks 👍🏻
Quite fancy the idea of being the stationmaster at Misselthwaite
Me too!
Beautiful
Thank you!
Watching again for the 100th time 😂... The details you add are so good mate. I need to whip out the static grass fly swotter and stop putting it off. First I'll need to get the ballast done...just needed a kick up the backside 😂 👍
Scratch building looks really rewarding, i think ill have to scratch build the main station as cant find anything that will fit that doesnt look a bit naff 😮
I'm always envious of those of you that can use an airbrush without the lid on the cup without spilling it all over.
I have to admit, I did spill some! Adds a nice effect though, like a oil stain.
Wow this is stunning. Maybe you were planning too but you could maybe add a light coat of black was to the station or some repaired concrete patches.
I hadn’t thought of that, and it’s a great idea! Thank you.
Watching listening learning
Glad you found it useful!
Great progress Lewis. There seem to be some comments on the tunnel. Maybe you could try the 'mirror trick' so it shows the infinity ? But I'm sure you'll come up with the most convincing and evident solution. Curious though ! Sunny greetings (finally - after all the bad weather) from Le Berry / France. Filip
Thanks Filip. Yes either a mirror or a photo of the underside of the bridge/road tunnel. I’m sure I’ll figure something out but I’ll probably leave that it but and try a few things out. Glad you liked it and have some decent weather!
Hello!
Very nice videoooooooooooo!
Greetings from Spain!!
Thank you 👍🏻
"Misselthwaite" sounds so profoundly "Yorkshirish" - even to me as a German ;-)
Your layout comes along really nicely. Especially the weathering makes it look so realistic. The background merges nicely with the layout.
If you permit me a tiny criticism: the tunnel disappearing underneath the railway line close to the signal box does not make sense to me. I wouldn't expect such a probably long tunnel built for a small country road. It would appear more plausible if the road would reappear just behind the station e.g. to allow access to a loading ramp.
Thanks Harald, it’s definitely very Yorkshiresque! That crossed my mind as well, but have a few of those sorts of long road tunnels here:
commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steventon,_road_tunnel_under_railway__-geograph.org.uk-__1162778.jpg
There are a few just down the road from where I live. I imagine it coming out just the other side of the backscene, which saves me modelling it!
Somethingthwaite is very much west of the Pennines and north of Morecambe Bay - as in Satterthwaite, Seathwaite, Haverthwaite, Bassenthwaite, etc. I have to suppose the expanse of water called 'Misselthaite Lake' is behind the camera! Another great saga, Lewis. Keep the videos coming!
Misselthwaite Manor was the location Frances Hodgson Burnett's famous childrens book 'The Secret Garden' set on the Yorkshire Moors. I'm guessing that was Lewis's the inspiration for the name.
A sequel written by another author, Susan Moody, is called 'Misselthwaite'.
Oh my jolly Goodness!!!
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A nice little layout and its great to see the transformation from bare modroc hills to nice green hills. May I ask 2 questions about the details? Looking at the Signalbox it would appear that there is no internal toilet, so where does our Signalman go for a pee and how does he keep the Signalbox warm during the cold days?
I was a Signalman during the 1960’s on the old North Midland route. My Box was a Midland type Box were there was an outside toilet and a brick coal bunker. This bunker was kept topped up on a regular basis. An 08 with a 16T Mineral Wagon and a Brake Van would come along and the coal would be shovelled from the wagon into the bunker. This wee train would travel along the line stopping at every Box.
That’s a great point! I’ve left a space the other side of the signal box for a bunker etc, but didn’t think about a toilet! You’ll see one eventually, I can’t be having my signalman getting caught with his trousers down squatting in a bush as a train comes in...
@@MouldyRaspberry I have been beaten to it. I was also going to suggest you give the bobby some coal. As for a toilet we had a box with no running water or toilet Ironically it was right by the local water treatment works. It was only in the 80's they got a water supply and porterloo when health and safety regulations came in. I knew of 3 boxes like that, two had water brought by train from the next station in canisters so they had to make it last the day, the other the signalman had to walk to the local colliery to fill his water canisters.
I worked in a Box without running water, the lighting was by a paraffin lamp. Fresh water was brought in every other day along with the Special Notices. But it did have an outside toilet, also a detail I find missing on layouts with Signals is a Fog mans Hut and brazier.
@@Cuderth I never saw a box with paraffin lamps but was told about them. They still used the road works type lamps which had to be lit after dark for emergency use and the signalmen were very pleased to be issued with bardic lamps No more smelly lamps. That's a good point about the fog mans hut They were all over. I remember those in use and one with a lever to place the dets. Another place I went had a miniature bracket signal that worked. It had a attachment on the signal wire so repeated which arm was off showing the fogman which line to remove his dets from. I am not sure if it was preserved in the York rail museum
@@cedarcam As a box lad it was a duty I had to carry out every day, on the Afters Shift, check the paraffin and fill if required, check and trim the wicks if required. I got to be a dab hand at twisting the lamp to show different colours.
Very Nice. martin. (Thailand)
Thanks Martin 👍🏻
This looks more and more amazing. Just need a few figures and vehicles and it's ready to tour in exhibitions. A small remark though : the end cardboard wall in the road tunnel mouth is a dead giveaway that it is not trough. I'd take a picture trougn a bridge somewhere in the local area and glue a print that had colors faded via a program like Gimp to give the illusion it goes trough... hope it's still possible, else you can try painting it black then cut the print using a bridge or tunnel face as a template before gluing the half-circle image into place.
Thanks Eric, appreciate it! I haven’t finished that bit yet and I’ve got a few ideas - but your suggestion of a photo is great! I think I’ll try that. I was thinking of a mirror before that. Thanks again!
There's something very peaceful and calming about your videos that's wonderfully relaxing and leaves me with a sense of serenity. It's like a window into the very best bits of the age of steam. I always watch them whilst enjoying a nice mug of tea (Yorkshire of course) and a biscuit, or slice of home-made cake (carrot today). Bliss!
P.S. Any particular reason why you've moved from scratch built kitty litter walls to shop bought? Speed and convenience, just a more generous budget available, or an aesthetic decision?
That’s my favourite tea/cake combo - good choice!
Nothing in particular, but as this layout is so much smaller I thought I’d try something different and I do like the look of them, especially close up. I’d never have used them on the other layout, it would have cost a fortune though!
Hi. Such a great video. Very helpful seeing the different stages. Love the music that acompanies this. Could you let me know where I can get it? Many thanks.
Thanks, glad you liked it! I think the song is Falls by Keith Kennif.
Still further great work! Will we see Mary or Colin or Dickon on the platform?
And the hunchbacked Mr Craven. Perhaps Lewis will be adding a manor house with a secret garden next?
Great ideas for some cameos... I have left a space free up on the hill above the tunnel so a big farm of manor house could go there!
@@MouldyRaspberry Seems a good spot for it!
I would love to know the music you've used during this, it's so peaceful and beautiful.
Thanks Jack 👍🏻
@@MouldyRaspberry Please could you tell me who the music is by, would be great to listen to whilst modelling. Great Layout btw
verry interessting Video I like
Thanks!
When I finally create a fixed railway I'll give you a call!!
Don't worry, far too many 'family projects' before that's likely to happen!!
That rolling hillside looked like Saddleworth the other year - apologies to anyone affected, just totally barren, prior to being totally transformed - as usual, fantastic job.
Thanks for sharing!
Was that 94xx a little unsteady initially or was it just me?
Al.
Thanks Al. That’s a good point, it absolutely does! Ah well spotted, I noticed that when editing it - it’s a recording of a recording (from a previous video) so it messed up a bit I think.
Hello Lewis
It is all starting to come together very nicely now. I am very impressed with the dry stone walling as it looks the dogs kahooners on my screen. Is it easy to mould to how you want it?
Love the name of the station, very Yorkshire.
Stay safe, keep sharing and model on.
Regards
Lee@NEAR
Thanks Lee. Its foam so super easy to paint and shape to the scenery. But pricey though, but okay for a smaller layout. Osbourne Models sell it in Devon. Glad you like the name 👍🏻
Simply fantastic. Together with Peaks47, your original layout forms the inspiration for my own new design, an 8 inch by 8 foot "wall shelf" ... is there any way I can send you a PDF of my Anyrail design? I'd really appreciate your comments ...
Thanks Roger, appreciate it - Sure, email address is mouldyraspberry@gmail.com
Looking great now, all coming together!
What make were the dry stone walls? They looked good!
Thank you. They are sold by Osbourne Models 👍🏻
Looking great. What happen too the other layout.
Thanks Ian. Nothing, I still have it!
Klasse video...🎥👍👍👍👍👍 Fim🚂👮✋
Danke!
New layouy new life
Yes! 👍🏻
Lewis, what is the size of this? Following this, like a cliff hanger of Coronation Street! 🤣
The scenic section is 16 feet. Glad your liking it!
Another brilliant video mate. Love watching your work. I think it’s absolutely amazing!! Love seeing the progress of your new layout and how quickly it’s coming along. I’d love for my new layout to turn out as good as yours.
I do have a question. Where do you get your large trees from? Do you make them yourself?
Thanks Jon, appreciate it. Yep I make them. I’ll try and include that in the next video, but I’m pretty sure there is a ‘how to’ already on the channel somewhere. It’s just twisted wire, covered in DAS modelling clay, then seafoam glued onto the branches. Then I spray them brown, spray the branches with hairspray and sprinkle the scatter on. I’ve got absolutely loads to make so I’ll be adding them for a while...
@@MouldyRaspberry awesome. Thank you. I’ll have a route around your channel. I thought I’d seen all your videos, but I guess I must’ve missed one 😂.
Most impressive. What kind of airbrush do you use?
Thanks Mark. I use a Iwata Revolution CR.
It really looks the part ! nicely done. Time to get the old flycatcher static grass machine and put new batteries in to do some grassing on my own layout.
Do you use any precautions to protect the electrics when using the static grass machine ?
Thanks Ron. No I’ve never had any issues 👍🏻