I have at last completed the final group of buildings behind the goods yard, except for some minor detailing. It seems to have taken a long time, although this is due at least in part to various pauses and interruptions. My model-making is never intensive or continuous, and so progress is inevitably slow as a result if this.
The first shot is an aerial view to show the buildings in context in the overall scene.
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The Goods Shed was removed in order to get these views.
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The Head Brewer’s House, which is faced with ashlar masonry, has been heavily weathered, using MiG powders.
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I used a photo I had taken of an ashlar-faced house in Abingdon to give me some guidance as to the effect that I should aim to reproduce.
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Photos of the corresponding house at Donnington Brewery did not show me what the door and the canopy over it looked like, so I based this detail on a photo I had taken a few years ago in Chipping Sodbury.
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The Donnington brewhouse is a reasonably accurate mirror image of the original building.
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I was tempted at first to omit from the model the combined rooflight and vent, on this building, but I am glad I included it. I rather like the way you can see daylight through the window on the other side.
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My model of the two cottages (which will be occupied as offices by local coal merchants) differs significantly from the corresponding building at Donnington Brewery, although the general proportions of the original have been retained, and the window layout has been vaguely reproduced.
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The casement windows in this case are etchings from Modelex (originally Churchward Models, produced by Malcolm Mitchell). I have varied the colour of the stonework to suggest that the left-hand cottage was built as a later extension. I have also tried to reproduce the effect of tired and faded paintwork on doors and windows, etc.
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I mentioned in an earlier post in this thread the method I have adopted for reproducing Cotswold limestone roofs. The final photo below shows work in progress on one of the cottage roofs. A piece of hand-made rag paper has been given an overall watercolour wash, and the reducing lines of the slates have been ruled in on the paper. A sharp 4H pencil is then used freehand to indent the individual slates on the roof, using the ruled lines as a guide. It is quicker and easier than this sounds, and infinitely preferable to laying individual stone slates.
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Paving of the goods yard in front of these buildings will have to await completion of the over-line bridge and the Goods Shed.
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