Canals, Boats, Water & Terraced Cottages - New Layout Part 6 - Yorkshire Dales Model Railway
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- More progress of the new layout this week.
After mulling over the road tunnel for a couple of weeks, I decided to switch back to the original plan - a canal tunnel. It’s not something I’ve modelled before and I fancied trying something new. I based mine very loosely on Standedge Tunnel in West Yorkshire, with both the cottages by the water and the mooring area to allow boats to wait before passing through the tunnel taking inspiration from this site.
I started by cutting away the road and adding a some plasticard. After adding the canal walls made from Wills stone sheets, I painted bottom of the canal a dark murky brown. I built the landscape up either side using foam board (left over from the platforms) the filler gaps with Sculptamold. Once dry, I painted the towpath grey.
For the water, I used good old PVA glue. The expensive water products might look a bit better, but are 20x the price and I’m not convinced they look 20x better…… I had a few bubbles appear once the PVA was dry, but I reckon this makes the water actually look more realistic.
Once the water had dried I used Geoscenics road ash to create the towpath and blend this into the road. This is available here:
www.geoscenics...
Next I put together a Craftline Models canal kit. Very quick and easy, and they look pretty good. I just need a driver and some passengers for it now!
After this, I scratchbuilt some terraced cottages for the left hand corner of the layout on the road that leads down to the station. These were built from Wills stone sheets using the usual method and painted using emulsion paints.
And lastly of course, I added more trees.
As always, thanks for watching.
We are very lucky to have someone like you to let us share your endeavours for free thank you
Thanks Peter, glad you enjoy the videos.
I'm amazed at the level of detail but also the speed in which the layout is coming together. You've done in six weeks what would take most people years
Thank you, glad you like it so far!
It’s a real world but in miniature! Awesome, blink and you miss it, there is so much to see!
Thanks Peter 👍🏻
10mins and 15 seconds of sheer delight , badly needed .
Thank you so much for sharing Lewis .
Thanks Eric, glad you liked it!
What a lovely day out of work to get great ideas from the master!
Thank you
Thanks Ross!
Just one word, Lewis, "Brilliant".... Greg
Thanks Greg 👍🏻
Nothing makes me happier than a new Mouldy Raspberry video in my subscription feed. stellar work as usual!
Thanks Joseph!
Stunning results and not overly complicated, beautifully done! Thank you for another excellent lesson!
Thank you Alistair 👍🏻
Fantastic. You've really captured the atmosphere of a small dales branch line. Well done. Love the stepped terraced houses.
Thanks David!
I am fast running out of superlatives, another wonderful video accompanied by lovely soothing music, hats off friend.
Thanks Tom!
Always look forward to every new video of this new layout. And will be to the next one.
Thanks John 👍🏻
Fantastic. Due to work I'm always getting to your new videos, but such a great way to end the day. Thank you
Thank you, glad you like them 👍🏻
Well done,truly a joy to behold,real engineering in miniature,thank you!!!…
Thank you!
Brillant! And you did it so fast! It's just gorgeous! What can you do now, short of moving to a larger house? Your artistic geniuses are flowing strong right now and you need to keep going! Now that you have one on the floor, build another above it waist-high! Then a third above that! All the best, my friend!
Thanks Greg, appreciate it - good idea! 👍🏻
What I like most about your models is that I pamper and with which love you take care of and reproduce all kinds of details
Haces un gran trabajo👏👏👏
Thank you 👍🏻
Not sure what to say - maybe that:
Simply stunning. Always a pleasure to watch!
Fine music and great modelling! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you 😀
Nothing like a new Mouldy Raspberry video to restore ones mojo for model railroading.
Thanks Tom - always gotta keep the mojo topped up!
Hey hey hey it’s Mouldy Thursday baby...
Hello Lewis
As ever you have done more great work on the new layout. The canal looks good and the two houses simply flow seamlessly into the end of the Terminus Station, fantastic effort.
Stay safe, keep sharing and model on.
Regards
Lee@NEAR
Thanks Lee, glad you liked it!
Hi Lewis, the joy railway modelling...adapting scenery as you go along....the canal looks just the part disappearing into the tunnel under the branchline....the cottages on the slope behind the station fits in well...keep up the great work 😀👍🚂
Thanks Gary, appreciate it. That’s the way to do it! Im sure they’ll be some other bits that get the chop and end up changing, but as you say that’s all part of the fun. 😀
The sheer magic of scenic railway modelling.
Glad you liked it 👍🏻
Great work! Those hillside cottages look fantastic! 👍👍👍👍
Thanks Ray 👍🏻
This is your best series yet Lewis!-Das Mann
Thanks, glad you’re liking it!
Hi Lewis, An excellent solution to model a canal & boat ! A nice 'Pub' next to the cottages for thirsty skippers ? Great additions to the peaceful scenery. It just blends all perfectly. I love it ! Wonderful work Lewis - Wow ! Greetings, Filip
Good idea Filip - thank you!
Different levels make this so realistic...great modelling...want to see more
Thanks David 👍🏻
that makes a little bit of a river very good , thank you for this video
Thank you 😀
It has been great to watch the amazing transformation of this layout
Well I’m pleased you’ve enjoyed watching it!
Truly amazing progress. Well done Lewis. Roy.
Thanks Roy!
Absolutely brilliant Lewis! The canal is a great idea... and I see you've been very busy with trees! Looking really good my friend.
Thanks Andrew! 👍🏻
Looks great. Love the canal. Really nice textures and tones on the towpath.
Thanks Ian 👍🏻
Looks great again. Nice feature that canal boat. The grey stuff you use on the harbour roads is brilliant.
Thanks Ron!
Outstanding Lewis I do believe you should be knighted sir Lewis of the dales I shall have a word in the old ducks ear about making it happen
Ha thank you! It has a nice ring to it!
Gorgeous. Simple as that. The canal was a pleasant surprise - I'd wrongly assumed that it was a road going through that archway, but the canal is so much nicer to the eye.
I love the music you use - some of it sounded like the tremendously 'English' score composed by Russell Garcia, for the 1960 movie, 'The Time Machine'.
Thank you for sharing; you have a tremendous eye for detail, like the rogue clumps of grass by the canal towpath.
I'm at work, and I've found these videos really calming. Cheers!
Thanks Brian, appreciate it. To be fair it was a road at one point, but I thought the canal might be a bit more interesting - so I’m glad to hear you think so as well! Thanks again 👍🏻
I think the canal and boat is a good choice. With your scenery, the tunnel would have to a long one. For your time period, doing a long tunnel for a road would not be an economical choice. But for a chanal, it would pay for itself. Thanks for sharing 😁
Thanks Greg - I agree, much more convincing and more interesting! Glad you liked it.
Just one word "AWESOME"
Thanks Denis!
Magic. I’ll order a thesaurus as I’ve run out of words.
Thank you 👍🏻
It all looks so easy when I watch you do it. In real life it is not of course!! Great watch, thanks for sharing….Chris
Cheers Chris 👍🏻
The scenery on this layout is 110% the reason I got back into model railroading.
Thanks Alexander, that’s great to hear - hearing that makes posting the videos worthwhile for me!
What a smashing layout....well done!!!
Thank you!
Pure class a joy to watch a good modeler at work.
Thanks Rob!
I am watching relaxing and learning .A truly inspirational experience , thanks for sharing.Best Wishes Mick Baines.
Thanks very much Mick, glad you liked it.
Masterpiece. Down to the last piece of grass.
Thanks Tim!
Cool, I adore channels and narrow boats - cool idea to integrate this in a model railway 👍
Thank you 👍🏻
Hi Lewis
You really make these videos look so easy, but I know you put a lot hard work into them.
Your choices of music is great go's long what your doing 👍
I liked the way you done your water effects.
How do really do your work so well.
Love it
Many thanks Brian ❤🏴
Thanks Brian, always appreciate it mate 👍🏻
Absolutly stunning, like I said before an Artist at work even down to the music.
Thank you, appreciate it!
Just brings everything to life excellent video thankyou
Thanks Mark 👍🏻
The canal and boat caught my eye immediately. Perfect for your scene. I live near the Erie Canal, but it is nothing like English canals and narrowboats.
Because it was inexpensive and quickly built, does not mean the boat cannot be improved. Several companies offer detail parts for boats and ships. Door and window.frames of paper, or very thin card would add some relief. You might check out some of the techniques used by boat and ship modelers for inspiration.
PVA does tend to yellow over time, but that just might make it look more like murky canal water.
Some modelers here use a liquid acrylic floor polish called Future to get a shiny water surface. Ripples and waves can be painted on using artist's acrylic gloss medium.
Superb railway, and getting better all the time!
Thanks Steven. Good suggestion, something to keep my busy later down the line when the layout is a bit more developed. I’d like to build a couple so I can switch them out.
Good point on the PVA as well, I’ll have to keep an eye on it - but I’ll looking to the Future stuff you mention.
Lewis, I did a bit of research on "Future". Looks like it has been discontinued, although it exists in other products: "The original Future floor wax was very similar to a clear acrylic paint, according to Make magazine. The floor wax became popular with makers of models and figurines as an inexpensive substitute for clear acrylic paint. When Johnson & Johnson discontinued the brand in 2008, it incorporated it as a component of certain types of Pledge (labeled as "with Future Shine"). This same formulation is sold outside of the United States under a variety of names, such as Klir, Sols Plus and Pronto Wax." Acrylic gloss medium may be the better choice now. Sold in art depts. and stores.
Why not send pictures and video to our Model Railroader Magazine? It is much less USA oriented than in the past, and your style of modeling would be a delightful change from the usual fare! You have already done all the hard work making videos.
That is looking really good. Makes me want to get back to my model railway rebuild. Thanks for sharing. Regards Michael
Thanks Michael 👍🏻
Love the bubbles on the canal. Looks like it’s raining.
I quite like them too. Or the little circular ripples you get when a fish comes up perhaps.
I WAS going to suggest a blow torch to remove the bubbles but your point is well taken :)
Another fantastic video. Everything looks brilliant.
I am Always pleased to receive a notification you have posted an update.
Well done
Jeff
Thanks Jeff, appreciate it.
Absolutely stunning! Those cottages are a work of art in themselves 🤩
Thank you 😀
You make it look so easy when I know it's anything but. Compulsive viewing !
Thanks Mark!
Hi Lewis. The layout is looking absolutely great. A lovely sleepy branch line. I love the two new cottages you have put in the corner there they look great ,I also scratch build all my buildings using the same wills stone work .the canal boat setting looks great. well done Lewis smashing. And thanks for the link the other week regarding spray paint.
Thanks very much Tony, glad you liked it. The stone sheets are hide to beat.
As per usual...superb!
Thanks 👍🏻
Another masterclass In scenic modelling. Love that end piano music, could go asleep but then I would miss a master at work. Thank you
Ha thanks Tom!
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful...
Thanks!
Another great video, thanks! Bob Zimmer, Trainster, Erie, Pa USA
Thanks Bob!
Absolutely stunning
Thanks Stephen 👍🏻
The standard of modelling is out of this world, I love the canal, it looks so real.
Thanks Stephen 👍🏻
Great detail as usual like the canal scene in fact it all looks great great work 😀👍
Thanks Michael!
Just your signature through out well done
Cheers Sam 👍🏻
Brilliant update. Those cottages are a work of art. i like how you used PVA for the water in the canal that is a great idea. I have done the same for a pond that i did on my layout.- Nicholas.
Thanks Nicholas 👍🏻
Absolutely stunning!
Thanks Tom 👍🏻
The canal is great. As others have said, the "bubbles" are a nice touch that suggest some kind of movement. A lot happening in a small space!
Thanks Rob 👍🏻
Fantastic modelling great skills i love it all 😎😎😎
Thanks Mike!
Ahh! You're an 'applicator version 1" guy (fingers) like me.
Those Hillside houses look sensational.
With the "water" a heat gun or hairdryer is good to get rid of any air bubbles.
Excellent update mate, I'm still ages away from my big layout sadly ...
Thanks Gerry. Applicator V1 has never let me down yet!
I have never tried PVA for water but once made some iced over pond for skaters using it. Poured onto glass then peeled off it came out quite well. The bubbles I think are like when fish have caught a fly. Like that. The cottages fit the slope very well and look really good
This was my first attempt as well so I had no idea how it would turn out, but it’s alright I reckon. That’s what came to my mind as well! Thanks very much as always, glad you liked it.
Another great video. PVA glue for water. It looks good. Who would've thought?
Thanks Thomas 👍🏻
Mr. Waller was busy in those parts wasn't he? Liking the canal. Near my home in Maryland, USA is the remnants of the C&O Canal, I've bicycled the towpath several times. A lot of interesting structures along it's path. Nice job on the detail work and a most pleasant choice of music.
Thanks Paul, glad you liked it!
Just moved attention from loft to garden, new fencing and shed, carefully thought about, for fresh venture to build a sort of nevelator in the lounge then 4” diameter bored out wall, for a 40 foot run to shed. Still debating single or twin line. Your layout being a great inspiration. Love the undulation you’ve built in that you obviously envisaged long beforehand, which is so important and works so convincingly. As I’ve said on other comments, admire your simplistic detailing, done so well, without adding the gut wrenching clutter ie parking lots, heavy industry, cars, buses and out of place, badly glued figures, unimaginable fishing scenes or anything from the wrong era like a highly polished flashing police car. A great test for me is if I watch a layout in action and feel an inner peace or slight nausea. Inner peace ✌️
Thanks Andy, appreciate it. Wow, that sounds like a great project. Let me know what you decide to go for, whether single or double track. Ha, that’s a good test! Thanks again 👍🏻
Beautiful scenery
Thanks!
Such I brilliant railway! Your scenic skills are absolutely amazing!
Thanks Jacob!
What a superb update. Canal boat excellent idea. The new cottages are beautiful. Brilliant, brilliant
Thanks Dave 👍🏻
So amazing beuatiful scenery and layout thanks for placed on TH-cam so wie can sie it ! 🙏😁🚂🚆😎.
HC Treintje Herman from Belgium 😁😀🚂🚆😎.
Thank you 😀
Interesting to see what a person with talent, experience and patience can achieve with the tools and materials available. It's going to look fantastic.
Thank you, that’s very kind of you! Glad you liked it.
The canal idea is pure genius. Two little tricks though : one, use rather Vallejo Still Water or the woodland scenics similar stuff (murky water) rather than PVA to avoid bubbles. Also, I found that some PVAs can get rubbery and even yellowish with times while resins don't. If you had still bubbles with the resin, simply blow with a small solder torch or lighter, a trick that doesn't work with PVA if I am not mistaken. Second trick to spread the gravel, cap the container with the end of an old nylon sock which will act as a sieve and ensure a more regular dispersion of the gravel. And also, the staired cottage behind the station are also a nice way to suggest the layout is bigger than it is. All in all, this really is getting better each time and show that you can do way more than you think on a small layout if well deligned like your extension to Yorkshire Dales.
Thanks Eric. Good point and suggestion on the yellowing PVA over time, I hadn’t thought of that. I do have some WS murky water left over, so could always use that on top of needed. Nope definitely doesn’t work on the PVA - I tried it! Glad you like it so far, thanks again.
Superb modelling
Thanks!
Absolutely brilliant!!! Both your layouts are simply fabulous! Considering they’re both set in the Yorkshire Dales, it might be a nice/funny idea to create a two-story stone building to the style and name of ‘Skeldale House’, the veterinary clinic from James Herriot’s novels (if you haven’t read them I strongly recommend doing so!) and the inspired TV series ‘All Creatures Great and Small’! You could park an Austin 7 (I think that’s James’ car) out the front too! The first novel gives a great description of the house if you need one! Thanks for the entertainment and stay safe!!
Thank you, glad you liked it! That’s a great idea for a cameo, I like it!
Great job! What a lovely place to live.
Thank you 👍🏻
You are so talented.
Thanks James 👍🏻
Crikey. That opening class 4MT is ready for shopping!
Just brilliant, Lewis. Henry.
Thanks Henry!
I am honestly in awe of what you create with what appears to be with such ease 😯
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Brilliant my friend
Thank you!
wow that is really cool looking
Thanks!
Oh this is wonderful to see
Glad you like it Steve!
Brilliant idea for how to do water, so simple, cheap but very effective. Like the road ash too, makes a great looking country road. Cheers, John.
Thanks John 👍🏻
Wunderschön, mein Kompliment!!!
LG. aus Deutschland 😊👌👏👏👏
That is brilliant, excellent scenery!
Thank you.
Great work bro.👍👍👍💯✌️
Thanks Colin 👍🏻
Wow A W E S O M E Lewis!!! Well done. Cheers Onno.
Thanks Onno 👍🏻
The canal was a good call absolutely love your modelling skills how about an angler and a few ducks
Thanks Rob. Good idea!
Each new episode stuns us with you imagination and creativity, I am getting so many ideas and you showing how to do these magical additions just inspires to do it. Thank you.
Thanks Peter, that’s great to hear you’re finding the videos useful 😀
Excellent. I would be happy to be on that boat on my way to a canalside pub Mr Mouldy. Regards.
Thanks John, me too!
fantastic modeling skills
Thank you 👍🏻
Wonderful!!! I would like to reduce my scale to be able to live in your layout. So I would be in Heaven on Earth!
Thank you 😀
Great video 👍
Thanks Paul 👍🏻
Great idea for your tunnel : I was expecting everything but a canal ! It's all what I love : original, surprising, and a typîcal english scene. UK modellers tends to model canals on their layout, it's a nice and original tradition I'm glad you have followed.
For my own projects, I have the idea to model a canal but one that would go OVER the railway line. I had made some research and I have been surprised to see how shallow UK canals are : you have to take 2 to 4 ft in account for the draft of a longboat ! I yought it was deeper...
The two houses on the slope is also a great idea. Simple and well thought to fill a corner with something nice. Simple but both original and efficient, your signature.
Keeep the good job done, it's a delight to see your work, and take inspiration from it.
Thanks Olivier, glad you liked it! I’d never actually thought of that, but now you mention it that does seem very shallow. Makes modelling them a bit easier I guess. I like the idea of a canal bridge going over the railway.
Oliver,
The classic canal boats you find in the UK are called narrowboats. The last time we had longboats in this country was probably in 1066.
@@YorkyOne Thanks for the precision, I had not remembered the right word ! I just rememvered it has something to do with the size...
I love watching a masterpiece take shape, brilliant work Lewis.
Thanks matey 👍🏻
Absolutely delightful. This whole series has been really useful for me as I start out on creating my own layout. Thank you.
Thank you 👍🏻
Brilliant detailing again just love the cottages atb Andy
Thanks Andy 👍🏻