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[IsambardKingdomBrunel]

No idea how many smileys have to be in a post, to indicate it was a joke. Usually 2 or 3, but obviously you are so sensitive you need to see 70 to 80.

Ignore list, there is enough wokism in the world already.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Dave/Nick,

The Willunga assets listed in post #84 are all now properly available on the DLS.

The kuids had to be incremented to kuid2’s to resolve the “invalid asset” problem, but the assets themselves are otherwise the same as the originals. Sorry for the delays.

Deane

 

[dangavel]

No idea how many smileys have to be in a post, to indicate it was a joke. Usually 2 or 3, but obviously you are so sensitive you need to see 70 to 80.

Ignore list, there is enough wokism in the world already.

OMG I never realized I was WOKE ......how can I live with myself . I used to get the p-ss taken out of me for my Welsh accent by the English, it obviously had more of an affect than I thought, so I'm woke, well that explains a lot of things.
Well that's one good thing that's happened this week anyway, i wont be staying awake over that little move on your part. What you do not realise is that I really get cheesed off when people use those particular laughter emojis as it indicates derision to me, the more you add, the more my hackles rise up !

 

[schaffer]

Dave/Nick,

The Willunga assets listed in post #84 are all now properly available on the DLS.

The kuids had to be incremented to kuid2’s to resolve the “invalid asset” problem, but the assets themselves are otherwise the same as the originals. Sorry for the delays.

Deane

These are fantastic Deane. You have really done a marvelous job with this. Here are some images of the Willunga station building at Mallala. I love the details in it. Only difference to real Mallala one is the colours varied as Mallala had a green roof and maybe paler blue but looks goods none the less and gives me a good result

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Nick,

After working on Willunga assets for the best part of 9 months now, you have no idea what a psychological boost it is to see such screenshots. I've copied the first one and made it my Windows screen background!

That photo of Mallala station is really interesting. It's not often you see photos from such a high vantage point. That open-sided shed at the right looks like one that I still need to make for dangavel. Currently, we only have a few fairly crappy partial photos from Morphett Vale station to base it on, and they are all taken from end-on. I'm desperate for any side views. Does the shed in Mallala appear in any other photos? If so, I'd really like to see them!

 

[dangavel]

Nick,

After working on Willunga assets for the best part of 9 months now, you have no idea what a psychological boost it is to see such screenshots. I've copied the first one and made it my Windows screen background!

That photo of Mallala station is really interesting. It's not often you see photos from such a high vantage point. That open-sided shed at the right looks like one that I still need to make for dangavel. Currently, we only have a few fairly crappy partial photos from Morphett Vale station to base it on, and they are all taken from end-on. I'm desperate for any side views. Does the shed in Mallala appear in any other photos? If so, I'd really like to see them!

i just has a look on flickr , where Nick got that image, nothing there and I tried every variation of search terms I could think of. I've asked my contact at Port Dock museum to see if he has any plans for it.

 

[dangavel]

These are fantastic Deane. You have really done a marvelous job with this. Here are some images of the Willunga station building at Mallala. I love the details in it. Only difference to real Mallala one is the colours varied as Mallala had a green roof and maybe paler blue but looks goods none the less and gives me a good result

As usual, great shots Nick

 

[dangavel]

turns out the shed that Deane spotted is a different design. so it seems the morphett vale shed is a one off design, or might be, it has metal lattice legs, the shed at Mallala have wooden legs only four struts and only one side is partially open.

 

[schaffer]

Deane, There was a row of silos across from the station where the photo was taken. It does give a great perspective.

I think the open shed to the right is this one. It is a typical goods shed

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Oh well done. The shed in the second photo looks like the open-sided shed at Morphett Vale. The side wall looks like planks of painted wood, not metal. And the roof looks like corrugated iron. Would you agree?

Out of curiosity yesterday, I tried to find the station at Mallala on Google Earth. In satellite view, and from the local roads, the silos are no longer there, but there is one spot near the crossing, to the south, which still shows a photo of the silos. A great shame they were removed because the land there doesn’t seem to be used for anything else at the moment.

 

[dangavel]

Oh well done. The shed in the second photo looks like the open-sided shed at Morphett Vale. The side wall looks like planks of painted wood, not metal. And the roof looks like corrugated iron. Would you agree?

Out of curiosity yesterday, I tried to find the station at Mallala on Google Earth. In satellite view, and from the local roads, the silos are no longer there, but there is one spot near the crossing, to the south, which still shows a photo of the silos. A great shame they were removed because the land there doesn’t seem to be used for anything else at the moment.

I have to disagree Deane, the shed at Mallala is more or less a copy of the Willunga goods shed, the siding on the Morphett vale shed is corrugated iron like Willunga, the big difference is the shed I want you to make has a steel frame as indicated in the images I sent you. I can send you the drawings of Willunga goods if you want but it only has a few similarities at best. The metal structure in the supports and roof are quite different,but the sides and roof materials look identical in images , cladding on the roof and sides of the shed is 26 g corrugated steel . i'll email them to you now.

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Yeah, on second look, I agree with you.

 

[schaffer]

Oh well done. The shed in the second photo looks like the open-sided shed at Morphett Vale. The side wall looks like planks of painted wood, not metal. And the roof looks like corrugated iron. Would you agree?

Out of curiosity yesterday, I tried to find the station at Mallala on Google Earth. In satellite view, and from the local roads, the silos are no longer there, but there is one spot near the crossing, to the south, which still shows a photo of the silos. A great shame they were removed because the land there doesn’t seem to be used for anything else at the moment.

It really is a shame about pulling down the silos. There are lots of articles about how the local residents miss the silos as this was a good beacon when they travelled to so their kids new they where nearly home. At the same time there is a limit to concrete silos. These were built back in the 1950s and the concrete has been stressed and possibly deteriorating. Lots of the Silos in the region have been pulled down. Mallala, Longs Plains, Nantawarra. History gone in the name of progress?

 

[schaffer]

By the way I also reached out to someone about images of the "other" shed that Dave wants. My source who helps at NRM was not able to find anything other than same sample images that i shared. These would be the same ones that Dave would have shared with you Deane being end on only. Photographer was Barry Marshall and taken in 1965 and 1967. I worked with Barry for about 5 years and never knew he had this interest

 

[schaffer]

I feel like I'm hijacking this thread but here are some of the silos that have been torn down of recent. These feature in all cases some of Dean's willunga assets

MALLALA

I have one more asset coming which is the steel bin silo pair on the southern side of the concrete silos. Currently have a placeholder 72" GIS silo

LONG PLAINS

This is the more typically style SAR/SACBH Concrete Silos. I've made these in 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 2x5, 2x6, 1x2. Currently refining some aspects of them to support texture groups so the styling of the concrete can be varied (raw concrete, aged concrete, painted, painted patchy, painted aged)
This uses the Willunga Station. Only issue I had was the names LONG PLAINS slightly exceeds the width based on the font size. So Long Plains fits

NANTAWARRA

This is just a placeholder as the real silos looked slightly different and larger. Will get around to building this too which is more like the Mallala concrete silos

Uses one of the shelters, ticket office and tank

This line had different colours and maybe the shelter was wider but looks fantastic and gives a real sense of what was there before being ripped away

 

[dangavel]

Don't worry Nick,this is a thread about SAR content, feel free to contribute whatever and whenever you wish from your excellent route. Would that more people were making content for this state ! It really has a lot of very interesting routes. Its frustrating how we now have some very good rolling stock and locos , but there are big gaps in signalling , housing, signs, and buildings.

 

[schaffer]

The following shows the various Silos and Grain buildings I've built. A few more to go and these will be released as a pack. For the concrete vertical silos these use a texture group to allow for localised selection of the silo walls with three different raw concrete and 3 different painted patchy and aged white paint textures

CONCRETE VERTICAL

2x2 Concrete Vertical without shed and with shed (2 separate models, both with 6 selectable texture finishes for the walls)
Typical of Brinkworth, Hamley Bridge, Tailem Bend, Jamestown

2x3 typical of Geranium, Gulnare, Lameroo, Pinnaroo, Roseworthy

The 2x5 (or 2x3+2x2) has some issues with this and needs rework
Based on Karoonda

I think of the 2x6 at Wallaroo and maybe Port Adelaide (but these might even be larger again. Should check)

Still to be made 1x2 with and without receival shed (Eudunda, Hallett, Monarto, Orroroo, Quorn), 1x3 with and without (Burra, Roseworthy, Waikere)

GRAIN SHED & STEEL BINS

Grain Shed loosely based on Balaklava, Paskeville, Blythe, Brinkworth
Note this is not curved segments as in the real sheds (those who have seen will understand)

Left is based on Mallala Steel Bins and Right loosely based on Balaklava

Additional Steel Bins as required but these will be a seperate release

OLDER STYLE CONCRETE VERTICAL

1x4 Mallala (believe this is the same approximately as Redhill but Redhill may be larger/taller)

3x2 Owen
Not yet started
2x2 Nantawarra
Not yet started

2x2 Gulnare
Need to determine if the same size as Nantawarra. Not yet started

2x2 Gladstone
Should be same as Gulnare. Not yet started

4x4 Wallaroo
Not yet started

For LOD purposes I have these typically cut out at about 4kms or so and tris is between about 2500 and 4000 in most cases. The Karoonda silos is currently sitting at about 11,000 so something stuffed up there and will revisit/rebuild

 

[dangavel]

Very nice , as usual, these are invaluable items and SO very SA. Some El Stoko mods of his NSW houses so they are made of stone or brick and have the classic SA painted brick surrounds on the window frames should be released fairly soon , they will also give more scope to model small towns or the inner suburbs of Adelaide.

 

[pware]

Looking forward to using them in my updated and renovated Peterborough Narrow Gauge Division route.

 

[schaffer]

I am also working on a series of classic South Australian houses. I know these are common across Aust but basing these on SA ones

A little Diesel and Dust inspiration