b_emmons Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Have finally taken the plunge to start a Layout, and after a visit to the local Hobby Craft store I brought 3 3foot x 2foot basic artist canvas boards. They have a nice wooded frame and I will be cutting and mounting 5 mm foam board to fill in the back for strength, and using woodland scenic vinyl grass mat and road kit for ease of construction. Large concrete areas will be made from suitable card stock, and gravel roads will be made using grit and white glue as it will stick nicely to the canvas. I have ordered a few Masons attic's secords (seconds I think) barns from Ebay to use for sizing, and if lucky should make into presentable buildings with a little work, and with some box playing they look a good size to me, and I hope to make each board a separate diorama that can be joined together to make a large layout for displaying at shows All help and advice will be appreciated as I have no idea what a farm yard should look like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 will be following this Brian,good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 46 minutes ago, Paul Palmer said: will be following this Brian,good luck Thanks Paul. Just trying to make a light weight and portable base that can hopefully withstand a few knocks, and is easily expandable to future proof it and allow it to attend different sized shows, so can show a full layout or just odd parts showing various vehicles off. will be 3x2, 4x3, 6x3, 8x3 etc depending on how many I add. have enough boards for up to a 6x3 layout at moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted February 12, 2018 Author Share Posted February 12, 2018 My Mason attic barns and a silage clamp are now here so I will have to get on with the build Have a feeling I will be trimming some of the bays off the silage clamp as it looks a bit to long for my boards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 Progress on the first board has been made, and it has shown me area's I will have to work on for the two farm yard boards to get a fairly level yard surface have added the reinforcing from behind and field has a nicely undulating surface for the grass base layer Little green tractor was helping, and enjoyed tearing around the 36x24 inch grass field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
844john Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 coming along nicely Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Good to see you've bitten the bullet and decided to have a go Brian, Just keep plodding on and remember Rome wasn't built in a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 Have had to have a rethink on making the boards and now using 3.8mm ply that works fine but still keeps the boards fairly light, as I found the foam board will not work Now have 4 frames and have started to make the main farmyard boards, that still require the grass verge and road added at the front, but the general size looks good for the two three bay barns I have. The road bends at the entrance to the farm and fields in a similar way to some farms around my area (boards/photo's 1 and 2) The silage clamp will have one or two bays removed from its length to make it the same as the barns and might also be made one bay narrower so it still looks large but will not dominate its board it will have a concrete base to match up with the farm yard and the rest will be Grass field (board/photo 3) The glue I used for the grass field has not worked correctly (the glue made by same people as the grass mat) so I will have to eventually run the Gregoire Besson over it, followed by the Horsch 8 metre seeder to relay it (Board/photo 4) A bit of a learning curve as first time I have used the mat, so glad it was not on the to be built new model railway layout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Looking good Brian. I found it to be very difficult to stop the green matting from warping like that. I remember I had a little hand roller trying to smooth it, but 5 mins later there would be bubbling somewhere else on the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 11 minutes ago, SPN said: Looking good Brian. I found it to be very difficult to stop the green matting from warping like that. I remember I had a little hand roller trying to smooth it, but 5 mins later there would be bubbling somewhere else on the board. I am finding some areas are just lifting off where I used the mat adhesives, yet areas I used normal white craft glue have stayed down so will try white glue on the road/verge area and see what happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I use wallpaper paste,no lifting or warping using that stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Looking good so far Brian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
844john Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Looks a good start Brian, I especially like your choice of tractor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 trying to make my 2nd grass board, so hope this one works out have 2 months to get my layout going as entered it into Wincanton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret90 Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Nice one, I use strong double sided sticky tape like duck tape but double sided Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted August 5, 2018 Author Share Posted August 5, 2018 might finally be making some progress basic farm yard boards made and being painted and two fields are now made and seem to holding up Changed back to using paper backed flock grass sheet's by Peco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted September 9, 2018 Author Share Posted September 9, 2018 some more progress I have a feeling I will still be adding detail whilst it is on display at Wincanton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 as it was displayed at Toytrac 2018 did manage to buy some more detail parts to make it better and I hope I manged to match tractors to the equipment correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret90 Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Looking good Brian, some lovely machinery you have there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 5 minutes ago, T.H Conversions said: Looking good Brian, some lovely machinery you have there Thank you I was also selling off some of my collection as I had changed some items for better detailed models and also now keeping to a Claas, Valtra and Chellenger main collection but keeping my collection of classic machines and some other equipment and plenty of work still to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret90 Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 8 minutes ago, b_emmons said: Thank you I was also selling off some of my collection as I had changed some items for better detailed models and also now keeping to a Claas, Valtra and Chellenger main collection but keeping my collection of classic machines and some other equipment and plenty of work still to do Good to focus on collecting certain things and selling stuff that you don't really need, I find it hard to sell things though hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 3 minutes ago, T.H Conversions said: Good to focus on collecting certain things and selling stuff that you don't really need, I find it hard to sell things though hahaha I had run out of storage space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Great display Brian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 1 minute ago, mb86 said: Great display Brian. Thank you Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret90 Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 I don't have a lot of space and I reached that point quite a while ago so tractors appear and are hidden In various places hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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