Hi Julian, Thanks for another interesting and entertaining episode with an exciting outlook for the upcoming station project. It’s very nice, how you got in touch with this couple and how willing they are to „collaborate“ with you. All thumbs up and I‘m looking forward to upcoming news. Thanks and best regards from Johannes
What a thoroughly enjoyable video. Excellent. No pretentiousness, enthusiastic, well described process, and accessible results to an instructed follower. Great stuff. Off to find a subscribe button and get the bell dinging.
Julian, what a wonderful video to accompany my Sunday morning coffee; fascinating and enjoyable. Great as always to see progress on the layout with greenery going down, and as someone particular interested in architecture (railway and otherwise) the collaboration project is quite exciting indeed. Plus, what a treat to get a look around your local exhibition; it's really interesting to see the range of prototypes modelled in the Christchurch area (all far removed by the look of it). Cheers and all the best 😊👍
Our local exhibition does have quite an eclectic array of model trains ranging from N Scale all the way up to Gauge 1, and many geographical locations including America, Europe, UK, and NZ + many more.
Good morning you genius. What a great idea for the station . I watch their site , truly fascinating . It may help them to realise what it may have looked like as their not “railway people “😂 Love what you do keep your videos and ideas coming. Cheers Glen
Hi Julian, the disused tunnel mouth area is turning out to be a focal point on the layout, yet another one!. With regards to the station building, you never mentioned where it was. I don't want to know, I was more indicating as to whether there were any old footage of it on the Internet. You mentioned the owners taking a picture of the wall and using that as a reference, but it appears to me, and I may be wrong, but some modern architecture has taken place, so you might just get a picture of a stretcher bond rather than let's say, Flemish or English bond, just a thought. With regards to the model show, it would be a challenging effort to get from, say Hamilton to Christchurch, the turn out looked pretty reasonable, with the layouts of a high quality. You will have to excuse me but did we see any New Zealand based layouts? I will say that some had the right idea has to where to park the VW beetle!
From my understanding the exterior brickwork of the main station building is original and they've just had it repointed. As the station is actually a home, I'm not going to be revealing it's exact location, purely out of respect for Laura and Gil's privacy. As far as I'm aware, there's no known footage of the station. The station closed in the early 1960's but had been in decline for sometime prior to closure. There were some New Zealand based layouts at the show, but I didn't manage to get around all of the layouts to take footage.
I don't have a specific ratio unfortunately, I sort of eyeball it. If I was to hazard at a guess, maybe 1 part water, 9 part Mod Podge, it's only a small amount of water to make the mixture slightly more runny. When I'm creating single small tufts of static grass I use the Mod Modge neat and dab on blobs. Hope that helps.
It was on over 12-13 October (last weekend) this year but I imagine the dates would shift slightly each year. I'm guessing it's always the second weekend in October - maybe someone here could confirm?
Thanks for getting in touch Julian, we’re so excited about this!
Your welcome and thank you so much for your positivity and support towards this project, it's going to fascinating.
The tunnel portal is simply fantastic!
Great stuff. I'm looking forward to seeing how the station project turns out.
Looks like a nice sized show and not too much pushing and shoving, very civilised!
It's certainly easier navigating our local show than The Great Electric Train Show - it was mostly mayhem.
Must be a bright fella to make such a versatile static grass applicator
Yes, he certainly is a bright spark. You're gadgets are famous you know🙂
Great idea to use the old station renovation. It looks a great building and it will be good to see it as it was when it was working.😊
That's what I'm eager to discover, a model replica of the station when it was operational.
Hi Julian,
Thanks for another interesting and entertaining episode with an exciting outlook for the upcoming station project. It’s very nice, how you got in touch with this couple and how willing they are to „collaborate“ with you. All thumbs up and I‘m looking forward to upcoming news. Thanks and best regards from Johannes
What a great idea for the station building will be good to see it progress
What a thoroughly enjoyable video.
Excellent.
No pretentiousness, enthusiastic, well described process, and accessible results to an instructed follower.
Great stuff.
Off to find a subscribe button and get the bell dinging.
Thank you for your kind words, very much appreciated.
It looks like "The Goodies" mobile office. I like it very much. 👍👍
The Old Station Project is a channel I follow, so that ties things nicely together.
Laura and Gil have a great channel - a fantastic idea to record and share their renovation journey.
Another great video Julian
Julian, what a wonderful video to accompany my Sunday morning coffee; fascinating and enjoyable. Great as always to see progress on the layout with greenery going down, and as someone particular interested in architecture (railway and otherwise) the collaboration project is quite exciting indeed. Plus, what a treat to get a look around your local exhibition; it's really interesting to see the range of prototypes modelled in the Christchurch area (all far removed by the look of it). Cheers and all the best 😊👍
Our local exhibition does have quite an eclectic array of model trains ranging from N Scale all the way up to Gauge 1, and many geographical locations including America, Europe, UK, and NZ + many more.
I liked the idea when you first mentioned it but, I must say it has turning out to be a beautiful lovely and interesting feature
Regards Mark
Good morning you genius. What a great idea for the station . I watch their site , truly fascinating .
It may help them to realise what it may have looked like as their not “railway people “😂
Love what you do keep your videos and ideas coming.
Cheers Glen
Laura and Gil are very excited to see a replica representation of their station and how it used to be when in operation.
Good morning from the UK
It was nice to meet you yesterday. Tim
Hi Tim, it was great to meet you also. Cheers, Julian
good see you at train show thanks nice vid thanks lee
Thanks Lee, it great to meet you too and put a face to your regular contributions on the channel. Cheers, Julian
Hi Julian, the disused tunnel mouth area is turning out to be a focal point on the layout, yet another one!. With regards to the station building, you never mentioned where it was. I don't want to know, I was more indicating as to whether there were any old footage of it on the Internet. You mentioned the owners taking a picture of the wall and using that as a reference, but it appears to me, and I may be wrong, but some modern architecture has taken place, so you might just get a picture of a stretcher bond rather than let's say, Flemish or English bond, just a thought. With regards to the model show, it would be a challenging effort to get from, say Hamilton to Christchurch, the turn out looked pretty reasonable, with the layouts of a high quality. You will have to excuse me but did we see any New Zealand based layouts? I will say that some had the right idea has to where to park the VW beetle!
From my understanding the exterior brickwork of the main station building is original and they've just had it repointed. As the station is actually a home, I'm not going to be revealing it's exact location, purely out of respect for Laura and Gil's privacy. As far as I'm aware, there's no known footage of the station. The station closed in the early 1960's but had been in decline for sometime prior to closure. There were some New Zealand based layouts at the show, but I didn't manage to get around all of the layouts to take footage.
Hello. I'm about to try static grass and Mod Podge, both for the first time. What ratio of Mod Podge to water do you find works best? Thanks.
I don't have a specific ratio unfortunately, I sort of eyeball it. If I was to hazard at a guess, maybe 1 part water, 9 part Mod Podge, it's only a small amount of water to make the mixture slightly more runny. When I'm creating single small tufts of static grass I use the Mod Modge neat and dab on blobs. Hope that helps.
What date does the Christchurch model railway take place?
It was on over 12-13 October (last weekend) this year but I imagine the dates would shift slightly each year. I'm guessing it's always the second weekend in October - maybe someone here could confirm?