Stabliofarmer

Love the transit Martin, great scene

Looks well Dave, great to see them being built up!

Thank you very much John

Inside the clutter of a farm takes over, the hay loft, redundant for a new bigger concrete building across the yard is a place to hastaly shove stuff, feed bags, roofing sheets and wool bags. The rabbit keeps the horse company in the corner of the barn, the stable door shows the battle scars of many a horse from back when working horses the key to a farms labour. Nowerdays just one working horse lives on the farm and this is only kept as a pet, the other stable makes way for general home detritus, garden tools, lawnmowers, milk crates and even a sledge. Looking down at the stables external door with its broken lintel and battered door top, the drain for the guttering is hidden by the door too. Difficult to get a photo but the hay net can just been seen at the back, the steel work is rusting away from years of scratching and saliva. When the new hay shed was built in the 80's a workshop was built up in the hayloft, peeping through the door the workbench and tool box can be seen along with a number of powertools and hardware.

Tie bars stopping the barn section from bowing outwards, the interior walls mean the cottage doesn't suffer the same issue. The large gritstone slates that make up the roof, I've always been disappointed not to get the bow in the roof common for such weighty roofs after so many decades standing. Inside the shippon, a stone outer with brick lined and plastered interior. The plaster is slowly falling from the wall as the damp eats away at it. There's some better photos of this earlier in the thread. Showing the texture and relief in the stone work, studying local buildings it was clear that the outer stones slant backwards with the top of the stone jutting over the bottom. I think I replicated this nicely. Keeping the thinnest bit of paper on the foamboard has given the scribed stone a lovely rounded edge as well which makes it look nicely weathered and period of its time. The upper haybarn was a later addition and thus so was the steps up to the top. They appear a slightly lighter shade due to the stone coming from a different quarry, but they show they're age with the worn down steps that have seen the weight of fodder from many a years harvest carried down them on hobnail boots. The cottage has a slate topped wall around its garden that many a cat has kipped in the sun on. Once a place to dry clothes it's now the wheelie bin store, a wrought iron gate gives way to terracotta potted flowers.

A more upclose look at the stone work The cottage with its big lintel work and edge Quoins. The old stone drinker sits at the back of the shippon awaiting some compost and bedding plants. The front features wooden doors and window frames while the rear is newer white uPVC. Looking down the track to the moors, the stone work here starts at the ground as rough laid foundation stones to get the base up to height. Then its large cut stones gradually decreasing in size up to the top of the gable. In the sorting yard a new set of dividers has been put in place, the endless rain is yet to get to the galvanised sheets and the wood is still green from its chemical treatments. The gate posts in the sorting yard are all pined to take hinging gates, currently the wooden gates aren't hinged, they sit in place fixed as a tolerance fit. The drinks trough burrowed into the stone walling provides a perfect stop off for any sheep heading back onto the moor, and the tree provides shade to keep the water cooled. I've always been pleased to get this wall sweeping up with the hill side, how it's done is discussed earlier in the thread.

Abit of a photo dump as this part of the forum has felt quiet of late and because I wanted to share some photos that highlight the stone work on the diorama. It took a lot of hours to get right and I don't think I've ever really shown it in detail. Kicking off with a few snaps off the barn overall, it's based on a Laithe house, a really common style of building near home at the foot of the Pennies just above Manchester. This one is a small cottage on a large barn with a shippon extension on the front. Sometimes they are built with a large farm house, or two barns, or large shippons either side or a stable extending from one edge. My plan is to add a larger farm house to the diorama making the cottage a labour's accomodation.

Thank you Dan

Some lovely builds so far John, looking forward to seeing what you do with the Transco's

Love how well the backscene fits in with the diorama Gary, great scenes

Looking great John, like the addition of the steering axle

Thanks Gary, hopefully get a few more sheep breeds and some cattle made this summer for the next part of the diorama

Wish there was a Love react button John, thats awesome, just the sort of thing I wanted to see done with the kits!

That looks nicely put together Dave, like the additions too!

Shearing seasons just round the corner, fabricating up a second shearing trailer for smaller jobs. Sometimes its best not to ask

Home for the weekend and with a dash of sun I decided to get Grouse Knowl out of storage for a few photos. I also wanted to check if any damp had got to it where I'm storing it in my shed, thankfully it hadn't! Set up a scene of clearing away after finishing the indoor lambing.

Bloody hell John, you really don't hang around! Nice to see one built up, I've only seen photos of one other one at that stage

I do yes, although at the moment I'm at uni without any model making stuff with me so have no stock! I've attached a photo for reference.

Very nice John! Not seen one of those visors in a long time

The Hellers finish into a lovely model John, nicely done!

Wonderful stuff Will, some very complex shapes on the go there

The certainly look like a great match Sean

Now that I like ALOT! Are the wheels the ones George Turner supply?

The Land Rover 109 resin body looks interesting Sean, is it a slot car body?

I like that alot Peter