Your getting there quite quickly looking great also
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Here is my first attempt to cardstock forms to camouflage Percy into Ivor - covering his face, and building up a square tank and wheel covers.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Ivor taking shape...
Doug,
Since you have the rest of the year off I think you will git r done. Heck you may even have enough time to come out and get some more track.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
I hope Kev. Here's more progress.
Looking good, Doug - love Idris! In the other pic I saw it was very small and I couldn't see the details! This looks great, much closer to Ivor
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Thanks, Brutus. Idris is actually a little plastic bug that fits perfectly into Ivor's stack! Next up, a cupola for Ivor's shed and finding red paint for his wheel and buffers.
Dug through two gigantic bins of Legos to find the perfect plastic bits to put together for Ivor's unique whistle (three old calliope pipes so now he can sing in the local choir). And see a super-close up of the 'bug' that looks like Idris the dragon.
Painted Ivor's wheels red.
Here's a brief video look. 0PhAXeaNjaA
More Ivor progress.Here's Ivor peeking out of his shed and taking on water.
Waiting for the signal (in the background is a nice towel for the layout cat to rest), and pulling into Llaniog.
Next stop, Pugh's Fuels...
Visiting Mrs. Porty (who owns the Railway) and Ivor's friend Bluebell the donkey.
Dropping off a new pair of boots for Mr Dinwiddy at his gold mine.
Ivor reminded me I forgot to show off the new fire apparatus in Llaniog.
Visiting the dragons at Smoke Hill...
Grumbly Town looks peaceful tonight. Perfect for choir practice.
Running past Portmadog Road shed.
Trying to represent skywriting from the airplane of Charlie Banger's Circus.
Pugh's farm...
View from one corner of the layout. The R transformer powers the AF coal elevator and an old Soundmaster box that gives Ivor a chuff.
Looking the other way... the CV80 powers the layout.
Hi Doug,
I've not seen this thread before. Very impressive! I saw the Tardis on top of the shed, nice touch! You've got a very large space in which to work. Quite an undertaking!
I'll be back to see the progress. Bo
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Thank you, Bo! I am fortunate to have an 29 ft by 11 ft raised crawlspace to play with - it is rock filled, then sealed against radon and covered with many 4x8 foam boards, then the indoor outdoor carpet from Lowes. I can't do anything 'below' the layout...Look closely - there's a Dalek lurking by Ivor's shed.
Coming right along Doug, Nice.
I have been putzing around on my addition today, I need to add a light or 2 overhead and add an elect drop to feed power to the new side.
It looks great Kev!
Some folks have asked me offline about the inspiration for Ivor. Here's a nice map that is part of a website with some more history about the show. The map gave me a physical sense for the different 'stops' on the layout: http://www.smallfilms.co.uk/ivor/map.htm
Ivor's shed, water column and Owen the Signal's box and semaphore.Llaniog station, home of Dai Station, with a siding to hold trucks and vans.Pugh's Pit, where Ivor can pick up coal to transport to the gasworks in Grumbly Town.Mrs. Porty's mansion, where Ivor drops off her new hats and visits Bluebell.Mr. Dinwiddy's mine, where Ivor drops off his new boots and moves his gold.Smoke Hill, where Ivor helps the dragons.Grumbly Town. location of the gasworks (large coffee cans), various businesses taking deliveries (fish, tomatos, a weaver's loom...), and the Grumby and District Choral Society practices.Portmadog Shed - I have to look up the real name of the shed where Ivor was supposed to be banished to shunt when the line was in danger of being sold to the 'Welsh National' but for now, I like the sound of this location, and finally,Pugh's Farm, where Ivor brings equipment, supplies and animals and takes away produce I'll be looking to add some visual aids to different episodes, like the recently acquired 1923 Mack fire engine (from a timetable in an online app, I am guessing Ivor could be set around the early 1920s, or more likely closer to the time of the episodes, in the late 1950s.) I've added a skywriting airplane from Charlie Banger's Circus. I'll look for some elephants from said circus which feature in several episodes, as well as the steam crane and Juggernaut, the latter a Galloping Goose-like replacement for Ivor while he was away with the circus...
I got the inspiration this weekend to work on Grumbly Town to highlight one of Ivor's customers, Grumbly Gasworks, and free up some buildings to expand Llaniog beyond Dai's station. So this is Grumby 'before'...
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