15 - Building a Wills / Peco Viaduct at Donnington Castle Model Railway (SS80/SS81)
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- In this episode I am building a Wills / Peco viaduct kit (SS80/SS81) at Donnington Castle Model Railway. I take inspiration from videos of building the same kit by @ChadwickModelRailway and @HorsehayRailwayModeller
The main focus is on the painting process involving the airbrush, hand finishing and the use of various washes and weathering powders. The result is a grand looking structure for the Southern Mainline.
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Looking really good.
Brick arch liners! I don’t know anyone who hasn’t had an issue with fitting them.
I made a jig from from chipboard and timber strips to the same width as the arch span. Another piece of batten to go over the brick sheet, held down with long screws to keep the arch compressed. The viaduct section was then offered up to the end of the brick sheet, another piece of wood across the back with two strong rubber bands, one each side, looped round the screws holding everything in place, then glued with DCC Concepts MEK.
Preforming the arch liners by curving them round a coffee mug, securing with rubber bands and leaving them in my (at this time of year) rather warm conservatory for a day or two helped getting them into the shape.
One thing to be aware of if you’re going to build a multi span viaduct is that the top of the stone arch is half a millimetre wider than the bottom. In my case, seven arches had a considerable curvature which I found before assembling. After removing any moulding flash, try aligning the top edges along a spirit level and see the gap at the base where the piers attach.
Rather than use the provided track bed, I used Plastruct 2mm sheet, 91106, cut to depth, spanning the joins between arches. It makes for a much stronger construction. The only downside is having to custom fit the inner walls of the parapet as the supplied track bed is only 1.5mm thick. If you did want to use the supplied track bed, offsetting it’s position to go half and half over each arch with a half section at the ends to fill in would achieve a good increase in overall strength.
I have to say, my construction method differs somewhat from the supplied instruction sheet. The result is a much stronger finished article with extra bracing for rigidity.
That's a really nice way of overcoming some of the issues with the kit, thanks for sharing in such detail! I did offset my stone capping to increase strength, but doing the track bed as well is a good call. One thing I forgot to mention in the video is that I filed the arches down at the top to help them sit together squarer. That's why you can see paint marks of different designs appeared on the track bed after construction. These were to indicate which pieces were to be glued to which after I'd done the filing and got them sitting nicely.
Looking good mate!
Thanks! Your video was a massive help. I’d never have had the confidence to go down this route if I hadn’t seen it. Love watching your videos and look forward to seeing your layout continue to develop.
What a remarkably realistic outcome!
The completed result really is an excellent representation of an historic stone landmark, very well done with your artistic skills.👏👍
Thank you!!! I've never seen myself as having any artistic skill at all, so it was really rewarding to read your comment. I'm definitely learning as I go, and I'm hoping that once the scene around it is finished it will look even better in the landscape.
Looks really good, when I was building my viaduct one of the brick sheets shattered like yours, I bought some extra sheets and they were much more flexible and fitted in much easier and I had 9 to do.
Wow, 9 arches sounds really impressive! Thanks for the comment, it’s good to hear there are some solutions if other people have the same issue.
Nice little project, the paint work came up really nice, shame about the brittle plastic! Out of interest would the plasticard brick sheeting be a good substitute to replace the damaged sections. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! I suspect the brick sheeting would work if there is enough flex in it. The only thing I'd be mindful of is the edges that slot into the arches. In the kit those are slightly thinner with no brick pattern to help them slide inside all the lugs. Thinking about it now ... I could probably have laser engraved bricks onto the thick card I used and just inserted that instead. Nice when there are multiple ways to solve a problem!
Good job
Thanks. There were a few moments where I thought things had gone really wrong, but got there in the end.
Nice work. It will be good to see that section of the layout once you've got it fully built. Tim
Thanks Tim. I suspect I’ll be spending this afternoon working on it as a track laying avoidance technique.