Almost another year has gone by since the last post on the control panel and a lot has been achieved. The station is just about finished - just a few little bits to add. But I thought I would continue the saga of the roof. It really is a complicated shape made up of many individual parts.
The main part of the roof was completed in the first part of this section of the blog, so this will be the second storey, tiling and finishing.
I made the second storey as a completely separate unit as it was easier to work on like that.
Here is the second storey basic "box".
Adding the LED light (Woodland Scenics - JustPlug system. Excellent). East side. Also showing the hanging slates that were produced to the correct size, especially for me, by York Modelmaking.
Here's the West side
The underneath showing the LED light for the north part of the internals room.
A more detailed look at the hanging tiles on the east (road) side. Getting the roof to sit correctly took a lot of fettling later.
Now let's look on the underside of the roof - Oh no, not more detail Mike!! Can't help it! It is very individual and differs from both Woody Bay and Blackmoor in the way the ends of the rafters appear. I needed photos of how they look and every one I had were in shadow and impossible to get the detail of their shape. I even looked on Goodle Earth where the road side of the building is well shown - except this detail! Tony Nicholson (L&BR TRUST) came to my rescue and very kindly took some shots that I was able to lighten the shadows and see what I needed - thank you so much Tony! 4,200 odd miles (from the middle of America) is a long way to go to get a photo.
Starting adding the rafter ends. They had 2 different radii shapes each, made with a conical router in my cordless Dremel micro drill. You can also see the planking - similar to how the main roof was made.
Here is the complete underside of the second storey roof. 48 individual rafter ends!
Showing a corner detail, This was quite difficult to work out.
Now I was ready to start "tiling".
And this is the final result. Tiles are York Modelmaking N scale terracotta, which are the correct size for 4mm! Finials are from Narrow Planet - they are tiny and easily mislaid but really add that authentic touch! I bought the strip of 10 and I can only find 4!
The rest of the roof:
York Modelmaking's N scale tiles in their sheet before cutting each strip and the first few rows on the main roof.
More rows and ensuring the second storey fitted correctly after trimming the ends of the tiling.
As far as I could go up the roof before completing the second storey as I wasn't sure at this stage how the apex of the main roof would match with the second storey's roof. Each end before trimming. There are the correct number of rows of tiles!
Another view with the second storey added for checking. Checking mating fits before proceeding with each stage is critical and must be done in correct sequence.
I didn't take any photos of how I joined the edges, but this is the description: I held a 6 inch metal ruler along the edge of the sloping tiles such that the edge of the ruler was exactly vertical with the edge of the plastic part of the roof joints. The ruler was then carefully clamped with a micro "QuickGrip" clamp and then, with a new blade in my Exacto No 11 knife, I cut vertically to the slope of the roof. It is actually an "undercut" so that the butting edge of the adjoining row would mate "exactly". That was the plan and in the main it worked. See the next picture - not actually the best edge. At normal viewing distance it looks OK.
And here is the east side before finally adding the gutter downpipes and stench pipe.
A view looking along the east side (platform). You can just see the weigh control box between the 2nd and 3rd windows. The Electrical box further along is also modelled.
Lighting was added at the correct stage of construction.
North end door light.
The Woodland Scenics H0 scale goose neck lamp which is just perfect for the north door.
West side lights including the internal and external (under eaves) ones. Some light "creep" at some edges which have been corrected using Woodland Scenics light excluding black putty. Also the intensity has been reduced with the control boxes, one dimmer for each light.
East side and again the light "creep" has been corrected. All the JustPlug connecting boxes are underneath the station. I have now made a 2 plug and socket arrangement under the station building so that it could be removed if necessary from the layout.
And now: on to the Goods shed. See the next post. Thanks for following.
