A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Buffer scene
At the station on Wednesday, I spotted this very modelable scene.
Firstly, you have a buffer stop - the Peco version would probably do the job for this although since all the rails it's made up from are straight I can't see a big problem with scratch building. The paint job is novel - did someone have too much time on their hands ? Notice the red lights and electrical trunking on the face. The siding is unused by multiple units which don't have light-squashing buffers.
Behind is the cleaners store. There is a big plastic bin (Skaledale) and a pile of buckets, jerry cans a other bottles. On the top of the bin is a mop and beside it a hose. You'd need to scratchbuild these but that's easy too.
Behind, notice all the tubular handrails on steps and the edge of the platform. Most of these are down to modern Health & Safety requirements but I some are to restrain badly parked cars to the tarmac and not into the space for trains.
This isn't a big scene and on a large layout you probably wouldn't notice it, but I like this sort of modelling and would be happy to while away a few hours recreating it if I had a suitable layout.
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