Details, details

Not too much time for major modelling lately so have worked on some detailing for Glenburn.

End of Shopping & Other Updates

Final row of shops/offices for Glenburn Rd, these showing affects of the economic slowdown of the late 1920's/early 1930's with the shop on the right end To Let.




Holidays also mean time for some of the many small completions required across Glenburn including the alley behind the bookshop, corbels on some of the verandah posts and completing the bluestone pitching for the road gutter.

Proverbs 3:5-6

" Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight. "

Christmas break has allowed time to embed All Saints, Glenburn

Traffic

Jordan Products 1926 Essex Coach kit was another joy to assemble but is perhaps just a little too clean.

.........and MORE shops

Only one more set to go after this one. Less interior detail this time as it is toward the back of the layout.

All Saints

In the older suburbs across Melbourne bluestone churches with sandstone highlights are signature emblems, the spires gracing many ridge and sight lines. Glenferrie's fine example is seen from the station below:


So, for All Saints,Glenburn I chose Kibri's "Westerwald" kit as the basis, and modified it from this:

(Photo: Kibri)

To this:


Congratulations to Kibri on one of the most enjoyable kits I have ever made, a very well engineered example of the kit builder's craft.

Retail Therapy

2 (actually 1.3) more stores for Glenburn Rd - The full building is identical to the Tea Rooms on the Dn side as it is also a railway building built into the platform end, and the 0.3 bounds the baseboard edge.

All dressed up and nowhere to go.

With all effort concentrated on Glenburn Rd, trains won't be running for a while....

Glenburn Rd Abridged

My good (and well versed in VR matters) friend Mark Tregoning tells me Micro-Engineering's girder bridge is a very close match for the prototype. So here's one of the 100ft double track versions suitably modified to fit the gap over Glenburn Rd, and it certainly looks the part. The deck will be ballasted in the next round.

Home Turf

An ex-Hawthorn Tramways Trust Maximum Traction Bogie tram (A JEM kit), modified from HTT form as a later M&MTB N Class is appropriate for Glenburn Rd's requirements in the mid 1930's.



I rarely get to make production kits, as Glenburn's requirements mean it has to be largely a scratchbuild, so found Jordan Product's 1928 A Model Ford quite a relief!

Tea Anyone?

Both Glenferrie and Auburn stations incorporate VR built shops using the space under the end of the platform & tracks. I modified a Rix Products store for the purpose and extended the station's retaining wall to reach the platform end.

X marks the spot

At the rail crossing over Glenburn Rd, I have recently installed the road and tram tracks from N gauge Code 55 rail. Hmmm...Girder bridge required here.

They're not my socks...honest!

A weekend of rather unglamorous baseboard (9mm Marine Ply on cedar ladder base) and shelving work has established the remaining foundation for the layout around the room, with "Cudgewa - Shelley Railways" on the level below. As the rail near the door is sharp and at eye level my wife has contributed to safety with a fine donation of a pair of her socks.

Gardening

Recent works at Glenburn have embedded the station via ramping and subway, and added a few "poplars" (well, they're sort of close) behind the advertising hoarding.

Just a Facade

Glenburn now painted and installed though looking a bit adrift without the approach ramps, and some more integration work to "sink" it into the baseboard....more modelling time please.....! Have included two pictures of Auburn and Glenferrie station facades below for those not familiar with the style - Glenburn is a smaller version with blended elements from the two stations.