This is probably a lesson in not trying to rush things too much -
festina lente as my old Latin teacher often said.
But I wanted to try and get the last building finished by the weekend just past and went hammer and tongs at it, from starting in CAD to finishing the build. The building was one that I had lit upon quite early on in my Shorpy searches and I wanted to get it in somewhere on the layout. It's the building on the right foreground of this picture...
...and a closer picture
I'm not sure what its purpose might have been but the horse drawn vehicles and a trough next to it suggest that it might have been stables of some sort. But on the layout it is going to be a power house for the factory building next to it.
I also experimented with another way of doing corners with bricks on the inside in buttresses which didn't require large chunks of MDF. I did this by just elongating bricks.
The buttress edge from the front...
...and from the rear showing the elingated bricks...
...which extend through...
and provide a face for the reinforcing 2mm square wood. It seems to work very well and is quite strong.
I built the main body of the building first and I tried to keep everything square as I built all the buttresses, but it didn't quite work out as well as I had hoped and this resulted...
...a lot of heavy weighting to force things square while I attached the roof before proceeding with the cornice.
And the finished article
...complete with problems like the topmost denticles not lining up.
I thought I had worked tthis out properly, but obviously not.
It might be better to design in 3D CAD so that I could see the final result but that would mean finding a 3D CAD which was amenable to working with bricks and walls, and I haven't found one yet.
I also boobed in its depth. I omitted to note where the cosmetic turnout operating mechanism would be on the adjacent turnout...
...so I will have to take about 30mm off the depth of the building to make it look a bit nore believable. I also have to carve a lot out of the internal formers in the building to clear the Tortoise which is just peering out of the gloom under the left hand side of the building. I could have tried hacking the 30mm off with a razor saw and chewing away at the inner partitions, but I thought that migh be quite a fight. And there are also one or two other details in the building which are not quite correct, which I might have allowed if the main problems weren't there, but a new build will let me correct them as well.
So it's off for a new build with all the modifications necessary - festina lente - quite.
Jim.