Shadowlands and Tellynott

[Mark Dalrymple]

Continuing...

Photo 7 - The first flight of stairs going in.


Photo 8 - A front on view.  The railings in the back were very tricky, especially getting those posts in place!


Photo 9 - The middle tier of decking is going on.  I checked around all the piles at front to give a little overhang.


Photo 10 - Even though I don't enjoy making up sets of stairs, finding it fiddly and frustrating (hence the jig) I opted to do two sets of opposite stairs.  In for a dime, in for a dollar!


Photo 11 - To get the stairs back far enough I snipped a little gap in the longways  railing behind and kind of threaded the railing into the step railing.  This was a very tricky job.  I cut a small 45 degree triangle from polystyrene to help with the stair instillation.  This kept the stairs at the right pitch while the canopy glue set.


Photo 12 - A view showing progress so far.  Still a long way to go and I need some more stringers.


More soon, cheers, Mark.

[cuse]

Really nice work (as always), Mark

John

[PRR Modeler]

Outstanding modeling Mark.

[Ensign]

Mark, everytime I check into see what your doing (I should really do it more often) I am blown away by your amazing work!
Both on your layout design and construction, and also by your superb modeling.
Please keep inspiring us all to become better layout builders & modellers!

Greg

[Mark Dalrymple]

Really nice work (as always), Mark

John

Thanks very much, John.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Outstanding modeling Mark.

Thanks, Curt.

Its always great to hear your encouraging words.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Mark, everytime I check into see what your doing (I should really do it more often) I am blown away by your amazing work!
Both on your layout design and construction, and also by your superb modeling.
Please keep inspiring us all to become better layout builders & modellers!

Greg

Thanks for your very kind words, Greg.

I'll do my best.  Of course, you are one of my great inspirations, too.

Cheers, Mark.

[Rick]

Mark, that technique you used worked very well for getting random colors on the boards.
Looks like the stair jig worked well.

[Jerry]

Mark just getting caught up here again.  This is some impressive work, just love way you did the coloring .

Jerry

[Mark Dalrymple]

Mark, that technique you used worked very well for getting random colors on the boards.
Looks like the stair jig worked well.

Thanks, Rick.

Stairs can be a pain in the backside.  I was struggling away on Saturday, so I grabbed a bit of scrap styrene from home on Saturday night and made this little jig up on Sunday morning.  It did make a big difference.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Mark just getting caught up here again.  This is some impressive work, just love way you did the coloring .

Jerry

Thanks, Jerry.

Fading is the only problem.  Its easy enough to touch up, but hopefully a spray of matt medium will make a difference.  I might ask in the art shop about whether a spray of the pastel, pencil fixative might also work.

Cheers, Mark.

[deemery]

There are some fixatives that help with UV fading, see https://goldenartistcolors.com/products/archival-aerosol-varnish-msa for one example.  Asking at the art store is a good idea.  But that stuff is a lot more expensive than your basic "Dullcote" equivalent.

dave