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Thursday 28 March 2019

Some more progress
An update on Thursdays picture now with added crane


I installed the yard crane today - its a 5 ton Peter Borman kit (beautiful kit great castings and etchings). Camden only had a 3 ton crane which is slightly different to this, however no commercial kits are currently available of the smaller crane. I struggle with etch brass kits think, they are way too fiddly for me and there are  number of small re soldering jobs required on this build.

Above a photo kindly supplied by Anthony Veness, photographer unknown of the original Camden crane
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  1. Jim29 March 2019 at 02:49

    Hi Kim, beautiful cattle yard you have built. Is it from the Greg Edwards plans or did you have a plan of it. I only went off the line drawing I have of it. Can't get motivated to start the fences as yet. Heaps of other activity going on here looking after elderly neighbours at the moment while waiting for outside help.

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  2. camdenmodeller29 March 2019 at 04:38

    Thanks Jim, the cattle race was built from Greg Edwards data sheet, the actual yard fencing and internal gates based on the line drawing we have. I didn't worry about an elevated race for sheep or pigs as I could not find any definitive evidence within the limited info to support this. There is some theorising on my part after studying a number of photos showing the Camden stockyards in the background and cross referencing a number of state archive drawings I have of other stockyards. There was a tree between the stockyards and the sawmill.

    Can understand the delay on fencing - I use EZ line in many applications however not great on fences as its to hard to thread through the post holes - I have used a single strand of copper wire unravelled from multistrand wire -its easy to thread and paint, tensioning is the only issue.

    I feel the same way about the trestle bridge approach to Cowpasture bridge hard to find the motivation after months of work on the other components. Will finish detailing the station and have a crack at Clintons, the Dunlop tyre place and the Esso servo, maybe even finish off the Milk factory so many choices.

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  3. Phil Flynn11 July 2019 at 16:36

    I really like the colour on your stockyards - how did you achieve that finish? How did you manage to get the curved metal arch over the stock race gate?

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    1. camdenmodeller29 July 2019 at 05:20

      Hi Phil, thanks for the feedback, apologies for the delay in getting back to you. The stockyards are made from north eastern timber. Its roughed up a little with scalpel and sandpaper. Painted matt black, followed by a dry brushed coat of medium grey and then a dry brushed coat of white. The curved metal arch is Evergreen T section thats been heated very carefully and wrapped around a former to shape. Its bee glued to the upright posts with 5 minute araldite and pinned with grandtline bolts. I did an article on weathering timbers for Australian Model railway magazine a long time ago
      Another Approach to Weathering Timber
      Volume 13, issue 151, page 45.
      regards
      Kim

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  4. Phil Flynn29 July 2019 at 06:03

    Thanks Kim for the reply and information. It will help a great deal with stockyards I have been building.
    Phil.

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