LarryG buildings WB ...

[LarryG]

The 4mm goods shed is basically PPC light brick red (in cellulose) with PPC Dirty Black brushed into the cement courses and wiped off. Grey cement did not look right. Seeing as this side of the building will be up against the mainline, I painted window frames brown instead of cream...



The real shed at Ruabon was timber-built and very dowdy so I'm afraid my model is gaudy in comparison. The additional row of bricks under the overhang show up well. The Engineering blue brick shade is by PPC.


The interior is light and dark stone, a nod to the GWR...


The door leads to the office extension...


Positioned roughly where it will go on the layout. The yard layout allows for small tank locomotives to pass through the shed.....

 

[georgeT]

Some very inspirational buildings there Larry, superb...

 

[LarryG]

After joining two resin brick buildings and fitting a canopy, I didn't like the end result. Fact was the 'yellow' building still looked the better option, and it grew on me during the passing weeks. So this afternoon I took the bull by the horns and rebuilt the canopy to fit on the front of the stone building....

Streetside view retains the bay window that was originally built when it was Greenfield....

The real Ruabon, steam cleaned and looking not a bit like it did in BR steam days...

 

[LarryG]

Red brick goods shed now recolored to match the station building....

 

[LarryG]

Having returned to 7mm scale O gauge, another of the Laser Cut Railway Models goods shed kit was purchased and modified as I went along. This one is to suit Llanfyllyn and had a blind back wall. I simply glued Plastikard embossed brick across the front and back of the window apertures...



As usual, I shamferred the brick and cut new cement courses with a fine saw....


I patched up the office roof and built a new chimney from the parts to fit atop the shed roof as per Llanfyllin. It was then that I realized the circular vent had to be covered with Plastkard brick sheet...

 

[LarryG]

The larger window sills were made double thickness depth so that they could be shamfered when set....



The component parts ready for spraying. The steps are also a loose fitting...


I dropped a goolie in that I forgot I was doing Llanfyllyn mirror fashion The roof had to be reversed and the loading bay canopy put on the other side, then the end wall had to have a skin of Plastikard embossed brick on it....


Bargeboards were dispenced with on this shed and the roof beams are shown poking through the end walls....


Both ends of the roof were extended using 80thou Plastikard. Guttering is 80thou as well, rounded off at the outer edge. It is reasonably effective when painted and stands up to the hard knocks of life in my shed.....


The roof will be clad in 'Rail Model' laser cut roof slates.

 

[LarryG]

A door was made for the 'road' end of the goods shed by gluing (Evostik) 10 thou plastikard to a spare piece of wood left over from a laser cut kit. Some planks bulged slightly while scribing the planks. This was fortuitous as it accurately portrays old timbers. The bottom of the door stands juts clear of the rails....



Door runners glued in place, but the door will be attached after it has been painted....

 

[LarryG]

This is my third kit for the Rhoystyllen building, nevertheless, I was glad I could fall back on my past Western Thunder WB notes. I'm one of those people who finds illustrations far easier to follow than anything else. As usual, I rounded off the corners of door and window apertures as well as the corners of walls. The rear of the building is receiving less attention 'cos it won't be seen...

 

[LarryG]

Unfortunately my June 2019 photos did not make it clear how the canopy should be put together so I will correct that here. I recommend a dry run to begin with before removing each individual horizontal runner and gluing it in place (I use WOOD ultra fast adhesive by UHU). Photos are so darned useful....Note the runner that was not fully home....


Front view showing the slots are at the bottom of the front board. THIS IS WRONG!!!! Slots should be at the top....

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[LarryG]

This is the third Laser Cut Models goods shed I have built. The roof comes with a laser cut slate pattern, but this is the first time I have bothered to add laser cut card slates. The roof looks much more realistic, but the wood warped a lot in both directions because it is not (as yet) not glued down....



With space at a premium I cannot afford to move all the tracks forward 1½ inches becasue of the station building, so a new canopy will have to be built...

 

[LarryG]

New canopy made using the same support/beam slots. It was held up by a bottle for the photos. When glued, the roof of the canopy will slope back slightly. It is decorative cornice around the canopy, not guttering....



The canopy's width is the same as at Carrog. The depth was calculated from several photos and is 1/5th the height of the wall. Mine is 2mm too deep but I discovered this too late!

 

[GrahameH]

All these daft little things are sent to try us Larry but nevertheless you're making a nice job of the buildings.

With the unfortunate warping would it help to glue some similar material to the underside do you think ?

Grahame

 

[LarryG]

Talking of little things, this laser cut yard hut came from Intentio a year go just prior to my abandonment of O gauge. I knew it was around somewhere and found the kit last night. As usual, I assembled the parts with an eye to spraying them later. The windows and door were glued into a surround for glueing behind the apertures. The kit somes with a four-wall interior but I only used two walls for gluing in place after being painted. Guess who fitted the roof upside down....



I drilled out the bottom of the drainpipe. Guttering is made from 80 thou plastikard.....


Ready for painting....

 

[LarryG]

As someone said in my layout thread, goods shed are large buildings. Try as I might, I could not leave enough space between the loading bay and an adjacent track without leaving that track vulnerable right at the edge of the baseboard. In the end I blocked up the side loading bay and built one on the end! I've not seen this done before, but it most likely has been....


All the original laser cut parts were re-used after carefully removing them. The horizontal beam is there to protect the drainpipe...


If I were starting again, I would use the 3-window side on this side. The nearest track is now well away from the baseboard edge. I need a coal bunker now...

 

[LarryG]

Rail Model Killimarsh Great Central signal box rising.... It should end up resembling a Cambrian Railway box...

 

[LarryG]

The two small windows below the roof have been blocked in, then the box was clad in Slater Plastikard embossed brick. The locker room door was lowered to ground level and the locker room windows modified to look more Cambrian/GWR...

Care was taken with the brickwork on corners and below the windowsills. The model is a slow job because I am having to search out photos of signal boxes all the time, but it's the kind of modelling I enjoy.

 

[Focalplane]

Sitting on the beach today with a book, Middleton Press “Branch Lines around Oswestry”. I presume you have a copy?

 

[LarryG]

I initially dropped a goolie and so the brick base now has two extra courses. I made the roof detachable. The roof trusses were dropped into filed out slots for a loose fit. Then the roof was glued to the trusses using Evostick...



Once the roof could be removed, I strengthened all the joints with PVA wood glue....


The short noggins were glued to the signal box walls...

 

[LarryG]

Drat GWR and Cambrian boxes. Most have staircases attached by their ends. Also they have vestibules on the platform. The tiny set square came out of an Xmas cracker and is dead useful. A slight gap will be noticed, as I wanted the platform to dry off slightly sloping away from the signalbox. I figured rain water would run off it that way....



Wedge shaped strips at the bottom of the walls is addition weather proofing..


The basic structure awaiting detailing. It will not be attached until it has been painted and glazed....

 

[LarryG]

Looking more Cambrian now with the characteristic pattern on the bargeboards. The finials didn't last two minutes, not that it matters. I tended to impale my arm or wooly jumper on lost-wax ones....

A series of tiny holes 6mm apart were drilled in a piece of 20thou plastikard and progressively enlarged. Then the styrene was sliced down the middle ...