Adding Detail to the Coal Merchants Yard
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- Continuing on with the coal merchants yard, detail and weathering have been added to the coal yard area, all amidst wedding bells at Station Road.
0:00 Introduction
0:30 A recap
1:10 Coal yard weathering
1:50 Coal yard detailing
9:04 Detailing items
15:39 The coal yard in situ
20:40 Conclusion - Jak na to + styl
I'm so sorry I could not supply you with the bit's to make your yard. They are prototyped and production ready but we have kept a heavy lid on it’s release. Everything in our set is to fine-scale including the coal-staithes, the coal and even the coal sacks that are textured. If you have 6x magnifier you can read the makers name and install date on the weigh bridge. Yes our stuff is that fine. Eric sit’s outside his Anderson hut with a half eaten butty and half a mug of tea (the mug is actually half empty). I love your work, so I will make sure you get one of our Albian Duo coal lorries and figures. Again fine-scale and one of the most detailed pieces I have produced to date, it also has a guy sat in the cab. Oh and congrats...
Congratulations on your wedding and coal yard looking forwards to your forthcoming goods yard.
Congratulations Julian🎉and great work with the coal yard 👏
Congratulations on the coal yard and your wedding, may you have many happy years together.
Thanks Jim. I probably should have picked a better modelling subject to pair with the wedding announcement, a coal yard is a bit lacklustre😯
Hi Jules!
Well I think you have created a masterpiece mate. It is so wonderfully grubby already and the haphazard asymmetry of the site gives it a feel of organic development, thus providing a realism that grid towns often miss 🤔 I can picture some time in the 1800s the line being built and the site being nothing but scrub or heath, then as the station expands and creates a new goods yard, the footprint takes shape. The roads transform from tracks to asphalt while the second line installed for shunting is served by the larger goods platform which is installed to house the new crane. Upon seeing this new triangular site, an innovative blacksmith sees the site as a potential gold mine with a new workshop premises that offer him a new trade: domestic coal distribution. Finally, the old workshop is torn down and replaced with newer premises and we are left with this scene where the old fashioned wooden structures of the blacksmith’s workshop has been replaced with their contemporary equivalent 🤓
I like a good storyline, me! 😉
I am pleased to see Tony’s technique being put to good use! So simple and so effective. I think he gets through so many pots of superglue he’s probably on the local watchdog radar for potential solvent abuse 😅 As an aside though, there were a couple of things I would suggest might enhance the area: one would be to install a secondary fencing of some sort that looks distinctly different from the ordered, strong walls so as to show they were clearly an afterthought so to speak after a spate of unresolved coal thefts just after the war when poverty and continued rationing saw otherwise honest people turn to petty theft. Maybe a somewhat unrefined wooden structure incorporating a company sign at the entrance? Maybe even a small corrugated iron sheet roof section at the apex to offer further protection? And a few broken and replaced planks where the more desperate were not to be deterred? 😜
Another thing it definitely needs is a large German Shepherd with a kennel on a long rope (along with comedic skull and bones in a bowl, surely? 😆) and a small hut (possibly created by the fence and roof bits in the apex) where the equipment to weigh and move the coal is kept…and where Old Bob the ‘security’ guard sleeps away most of his night shift 🤔
Cheers Jules, and major congratulations! She seems to be a lovely lady and with us coming up to out 10th anniversary too, I can assure you that 1) there is nothing better than having a good partner that is your best friend and 2) HAIL KING GARAGISTA! (It’s a good way of convincing yourself that you are still in charge of your own stuff when in fact we both know where the real brains of the operation lie…and it’s about 3 inches away from the smile that reminds us how lucky we are 😎
Mind you, we’ve still got to do the marry bit but we’ll get there 👍🍀🥂🍾 🎉 😍
Gosh, talk about a very belated response from me, that's terrible! Some excellent ideas as always, and certainly some to adopt. Love the idea of a guard dog on site. The story you tell of how things came to be is spot on, a brilliant synopsis. Take care, Julian
Hi Julian congratulations to yourself and your wife on your marriage great video 🥂🥂🥂🥂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Again you show some incredible work. Seen is really looking great
Hi Julian. A match made in heaven, congratulations . . . long may that last for the two of you. Living in a part of the old industrial heartland of Sheffield, England in the '60s, I can honestly say you have captured the essence of the mood within the area of the coal yard brilliantly. Takes me back in time, I can smell and taste the environment you have captured. A stunning piece of work Julian. All the very best.
Thanks Gary, it's wonderful to hear when a scene I've modelled evokes memories and nostalgia from years gone by. It might not be prototypically accurate but if a mood is successfully portrayed then my job is done.
A Great Video. Thank You. I have just turned on my computer after 8 days in bed with V/bad Covid so your video cheered me up no end Best Regards Bill fro W/Australia Stay Safe.
Thanks Bill, I hope you've recovered well, 8 days doesn't sound too good😯
The coal yard looks great.
One thing to remember about British railways is that it has been law since the early days that the railways have to be fenced or walled off. So there would be a high wall alongside the goods yard separating it from non railway land, the gap in the wall at the coal merchant probably wouldn't be there and if unloading facilities for the boiler workshops were needed a platform would probably be there.
The layout is coming along fantastically! Congratulations to you and your now wife 😊
Congratulations on your wedding 🎊🥃🥃👍🏻
Congratulations to you and your partner mate 👊
Thanks Sean. It took a while but I finally convinced Sarah the only affair I was ever going to have was with my model railway😲
Dear Sir,
I wish i could say the same to the missus.
Cheers from Brazil!
Beautiful job Julian, you've made a coal stage look - dare I say - romantic! ;-) Cheers, Joachim
Hi Julian congratulations to you and you wife,as for the modelling and weathering well its fantastic and gives me great inspiration for my modelling as I have similar scenes especially the cobblestone areas
Regards Paris and Paul
Thanks Paris and Paul, it's great to hear you've gathered some inspiration for your own modelling, that's what it's all about.
Nice job
You🎉 attention to detail is amazing
Nick Australia
Julian, congratulations to you and your wife, best wishes and many years to come. Coal yard looks superb love the detail well done, regards Barry..
Congratulations! and another great video from cheers Alan,ChCh NZ.
Ahhh, a fellow Cantabrian. Thank you Alan.
Congratulations on your nuptuals, Coal yards does look great.
Nice video.
Congratulations to you both.
Stay safe, stay happy.
Mon from Monsville Railways
Congratulations to you both, that's great news. Thanks for the excellent tutorials you do, I'm learning loads from you. You're a very skilled model maker and I love watching your layout develop.
Also, my grandad was a Coal Merchant in Rochdale down the road from Oldham where your warehouse is from. I'm going to add a coal merchant too in memory of him.
Thanks Paul, it's great to hear from folk who are learning useful tidbits from my modelling exploits. It certainly sounds like a lovely idea to add a coal merchant in memory of your grandad.
Fantastic progress on the coal yard. It’s really coming to life now. Congratulations to you both on your marriage. Thanks for sharing . Roy.
Hi Julian, coal yards had a set of scales to weigh off the sacks, fold some paper bags as empty sacks. Looks good.
Excellent work on both counts
Hi Julian. Great video. Many, many congratulations on your marriage.
congrats chum, all my very best to you both for the future. cheers P
Not bad for a Kiwi!! On ya mate, nice one. Warm regards and best wishes from Qld.
Looks amazing, nicely done
Also, congratulations 🍸🍺
Congratulations on your wedding
Nick Australia
congratulations with the knot...
Great video it's really starting to come along and look good congratulations on your wedding
Thanks Micheal. It's not be the speediest progress for this area of the layout... much like tying the knot🙂
It's really coming to life. Congratulations to you both on your wedding.
Congratulations to you and your wife on your wedding. One thing I think is missing from the coal yard is a weighbridge, but you could put one in the goods yard instead.
Thank you for your kind words and suggestion. Space is probably a bit too tight for a weighbridge but there's now a weighbridge in the goodsyard area (2 months on, and my tardy reply☺). I will be adding some sack scales to the coal yard area which will give some form of accounting for coal distribution.
@@StationRoadModelRailway Working weighbridges still exist, there's one at my local council's rubbish tip (You can be charged for the weight you dump there), but sack scales are things of the dim and distant past, even to a 77 year old codger like me. They probably disappeared in the 1960s when central heating became more common and there was less need for coal in the home. The only sack scales I have seen were in a restored working flour windmill.
As these coal yards originally were owned and run by independent operators on land rented from the railway companies they often had a small shed referred to as the 'Coal Office' from which the coal merchant's business was actually run.
Congratulations mate 👍
Congratulations on your marriage. Loving the detail on the coalyard . Very well done.
Congrats with your wedding Julian! Also for your wife!! Great update! Well build!!! Cheers Onno.
Congratulations on your news in my experience model railway and wives can be a problem I hope you have found a very tollerant one. Great video and brilliant finishing touches to the coal yard and as you touched on nothing is ever really finished. I like the platform with the crane and look forward to seeing how you progress with that.
Thanks Arthur. I think Sarah is quite happy with my model railway activities. She'd much rather see me do that than being down at the pub every night or slinking off to a casino😉
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations!
Congratulations on your wedding Julian and congratulations on the fantastic coal yard.
Thank Paul. I think Sarah will be please we didn't get married "in a coal yard"😁
Congratulations on your wedding, fantastic news, and loving the coal merchants too ...
Brilliant job.
good work on the layout keep up the good work and vid on channel thanks l;ee
Congratulations
Helllo from the UK 😎
Coal yard is looking great Julian! Looking forward to watching how you integrate the hard standing and create the goods shed area! Many congratulations to you both also! Ian
Lovely modelling and you look of an age where it might, just, evoke memories.
But, age 68, I can't understand why so much modelling of my early childhood and the decades before. Mostly grey, soot filled and covered houses and towns. Long term injuries to labourers heaving sacks and dustbins on their backs. Grandpa's family had been gangers on a section of railway line on Cheshire, Staffordshire border until WW1 when three older brothers died and he survived to escape from that destiny. After nursing through Liverpool blitz and Battle of Atlantic, Mum escaped dark, dreary Liverpool to develop family health projects in Northern Nigeria where she met Dad. I remember on leave, 1959, gazing up at steam trains filling with water above our heads in digs at Tunbridge Wells West Station. Dark and dreary, wet and cold, soot everywhere. You can't model the air full of coal dust, the lungs full of it, the people aged 40 who looked like today's 90 year olds. How to model without getting twee? Everrard Junction manages it and evokes my wife's early teens at Ealing Broadway brilliantly.
Not denigrating the modelling. Just triggers gratefulness to have lived in a healthier and safer age and, if the model does that, it's done a good thing.
Thank you for sharing an insight into years gone by, I always find it so interesting. Being a 1971 baby, I don't really know why I have such a fascination for a period and country I have never experienced. My dad briefly lived in Leeds in the early 60's and I remember the stories he used to tell about the soot and grime of industrial Britain, coal smoke from the surviving steam locomotives.
Congratulations on the marriage. 12 years, not rushing anything are you!? Another good video and now it has finally warmed up here in West London, time to get inspired and out in my garage…
Hello Julian, congratulations to your wedding.
Regarding your coal loading platform. May I suggest that you add some kind of plank between the lorry deck and the platform, so the workers could transfer the coal sacks more easily to the lorry deck.
Best regards
Markus
Thanks Marcus. Sounds like a plan. My original thought was the lorry was still backing in and hadn't quite backed up completely to the platform (leaving no gap), but I like the idea of a plank🙂
Another good episode, always liking the attention to detail, and congratulations to you both, wishing you a long and happy life together. And always remember that marriage is an equal . . . . Oh, have to go, no dear I'm not watching youtube I was just getting the vacuum out . . . (Where's that laughing emoji when you need it)
Love it! If men could multi-task, you could vacuum while watching CZcams😃
Congratulations to you and your wife. I hope you have a long and happy future together. As for the railway project, I would be as happy as Larry if I had even just a quarter of your ability and artistic flair. Your skills are amazing and fascinate me everytime I watch your videos. Good luck with the rest of the project. I look forward to seeing your progress.
Thank you for your kind words. I honestly think anyone can achieve great results with their modelling endeavours, the key is perseverance to keep at it. I've definitely found my modelling skills have improved over the years, successes and failures in all.
Really enjoying the channel and your modelling skills! Congratulations to you both. 🙏
All the best for the future Julian the coal yard looks amazing thankyou for the tips and video
Thanks for your reply on the battery use Julian. Congratulations to you both!
Congratulations on your marriage Happy days 🎉
Very nice!
Something I’ve noticed is there’s no birds or animals. Most city’s or towns have stray cats don’t they?
@@Hadassah-KaquoliMReno Absolutely, I just haven't got to the wildlife stage yet. This will be one of those pottering tasks when I've run out of other modelling projects.
Super detail as usual, you are a very good model maker. On the use of your 08 shunter as a test loco, better to drive it through under power as pushing it may lead to flats on the shunting loco's wheels. Keep up the videos and I look forward to the next instalment. All the very best to you and your wife.
Fantastic looking scene 👍 Congratulations on your nuptials 💒 One detail to consider is a scale for the coal yard, they went hand in hand back when local merchants delivered coal door to door.
Thanks Bill. Coal scales have been mentioned a few times now so I'll be definitely researching and adding some in.
Congrats on tying the knot [avoid the noose]. As usual great attention to detail. My only suggestion is adding some weighing scales in the coal yard. Greetings from Bali.
Thanks Steve. I did consider a weigh-bridge but space is quite tight to have a drive-on drive-off scenario. I wonder if it would be plausible to have a weigh-bridge directly inside the gates as the lorries enter?
@@StationRoadModelRailway I was thinking a set of small scales to weigh sacks. I don't think a small yard would have needed a weighbridge. Another thought re the truck. The roof seems to clean and having a bloke on the back with full and empty sacks.
@@steveroperfilms Ahh, I see what you mean. Would coal sacks be weighed or simply filled until the sack is full? I have weathered the lorry roof but it doesn't show well in the video, the lighting just blows it out. I'll be adding more coal sack to the platform and I think I'll add some to the lorry deck as well along with a worker.
@@StationRoadModelRailway You're right about the sacks 1cwt and 2cwt from childhood memory. Though I have seen this sort of thing as well. Oh! Can't post picture. Will try somewhere else.
Forget the 2cwt. They were sacks twice the size for anthracite, half the weight of coal.
What most people, me included, call cobblestones are actually called setts. Cobbles are naturally rounded stones not rectangular blocks (which are called setts and have been quarried and regularly shaped). Congrats on getting married.
The engineering description of a cobble, is any material that fits through a 200mm sieve but not a 60mm one.
Just discovered you channel and will follow you. I wonder though if there's enough room for the scammel to manouver or pass through the gates. Also were pallets available in that era?
Thanks for following the channel. The Scammel Mechanical Horses were designed to manouver in very tight spaces, almost turning within their own space, and yes, I did model the gates for the truck to pass between. Interestingly, wooden pallets date back as early as the 1880's, so they were widely used by the 1960's.
Just discovered your channel, so belated best wishes. I am modelling a small rural N gauge coal yard and trying to get to grips with two things. One the surface of the yard not being in a more urban location like yours and so considering ballast. Second how was coal off loaded from the wagons if loose to the yard, that your video and model doesn’t seem to address. Any thoughts greatly received. Thanks
Maybe a set of scales to weigh out the coal for the sacks Regards Bill
Thanks Bill. Somebody else mentioned this, so I will do some investigating and see what I can find.
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O-O-O-O-H-H-H-H Julian HAVE I GOT COMMENTS FOR YOU!
First off. This maybe the first time I noted the Asphalt Roofing you modeled. To other modelers who are family, friends, Club Gandy-Dancers, or other YT'ers my criticisms have been deep cuts. For whatever reason modelers repeatedly lay long edge to edge strips of roofing material as a demonstration of prototypical coverage. IT IS NOT. Julian YOUR'S IS. All roofing should be exhibited as a STAGERED COVERAGE. Excellent job "Garage Boss".
Next the goods crane. Dependent upon what is the sub straight of that current platform please consider an underside mounted servo motor which would rotate from180 to 270 degrees of the entire assembly to serve both sets of tracks. One coal sacks. the other dry goods.
Third, empty sacks. Following the passing of my wife in 2017 she left behind drawers full of She-She Hankies. You know the type. With fancy schmancy lace trim? Well in a matter of need, and to keep Eileen as a permanent part of my NEVER/WAS RAILWAY I delicately removed the lace trim for other Gingerbread Victorian structures. But on point here, I cut and fabric glues the center of the hankies as both full and empty sacks. The white cloth did need to be dyed with colored stains, weathered, dry brushed, and at times molded into shapes that "appeared" realistic. There are some, meaning many, fails.
Lastly, and lovingly, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WEDDED BLISS TO SUCH AN ELEGANT ATTRACTIVE BRIDE. But one cautionary from a guy who married his first love 43 years ago, & still is in love with her, a perfect wife is the Lady Sarah who allows the guy to fantasizes he is "THE BOSS" of ANYTHING. WE AIN'T!🥰
Jim in N.Y., U,S.A.
Thank you Jim for sharing your kind and wonderful words. I may look at a servo for the crane as there is room underneath, and I will be investigating empty coal sacks yet to be filled. I can't borrow my wife's hankies as she doesn't have any, but I wonder what I might find in the way of worn-out underwear in my drawer😯
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