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I have started purchasing more elements of what will become Fornham Road engine shed.
I plan a 4 road shed and this is as good as any. The ready made examples can be up to £150 ...... or more and this at £4.99 is a snip. The snag is that there is endless printing, cutting, sticking on boards, bending, pulling it apart to do it properly next time ............... oh dear. I searched youtube for help and came up with this Station road engine shed from a great modeller. Sadly it put me off.
Searching some more I found this: Engine shed by Torri Laser constructed by LNER 1946 ................... and the idea formed that I could take the best from these two chaps and make it my own. The Torri Laser mdf kit is £59.99 on eBay listing and I duly ordered it.
It is actually a precision cut kit and I am not displeased. The instructions could be better but it's quite straight forward. A half hour's fun of dry assembly has given me confidence.
The LNER 1946 chap chose to cover his kit with Scalescenes brick and tile sheets but I think that looks a bit flat so I have downloaded the Scalescenes engine shed kit and chosen the red brick example which I can easily weather up. I've read about texturing the downloaded sheets and once printed, applying a light roller with the paper laying on fine grade emery or sandpaper gives the brick a bit of depth. I will, experiment. It's important to get a 3D look, especially around the windows so the lintels and other features included in the Scalescenes kit will add that extra bit of character. Included in the paper kit are pits and flooring plus there is a pit lighting kit option ........ oh I definitely want that. (Reminds me of a railway meeting where I mischeivously suggested that a "mobile pit" would solve a lot of our rolling stock failures in remote locations and one chap asked where we could get one. I felt very guilty).
The Torri Laser instructions are a set of black and white printed sheets. Rather basic but adequate. Not a patch on the excelent Scalescenes instruction but I'm buying laser cutting professionalism so I'm not complaining.
The only thing I need now is the time to start building .......... come now ................. don't make excuses before you have even started ............ but ............... I have civic duties to perform and meetings or events to attend throughout the week. I am just getting over a busy 4 days in which I officiated at 3 remembrances services, two British Legion concerts and two post covid re-instated markets plus 3 zoom meetings ........... and there was me worried that retirement would be boring.
Best regards ........................ Greyvoices (alias John)
I plan a 4 road shed and this is as good as any. The ready made examples can be up to £150 ...... or more and this at £4.99 is a snip. The snag is that there is endless printing, cutting, sticking on boards, bending, pulling it apart to do it properly next time ............... oh dear. I searched youtube for help and came up with this Station road engine shed from a great modeller. Sadly it put me off.
Searching some more I found this: Engine shed by Torri Laser constructed by LNER 1946 ................... and the idea formed that I could take the best from these two chaps and make it my own. The Torri Laser mdf kit is £59.99 on eBay listing and I duly ordered it.
It is actually a precision cut kit and I am not displeased. The instructions could be better but it's quite straight forward. A half hour's fun of dry assembly has given me confidence.
The LNER 1946 chap chose to cover his kit with Scalescenes brick and tile sheets but I think that looks a bit flat so I have downloaded the Scalescenes engine shed kit and chosen the red brick example which I can easily weather up. I've read about texturing the downloaded sheets and once printed, applying a light roller with the paper laying on fine grade emery or sandpaper gives the brick a bit of depth. I will, experiment. It's important to get a 3D look, especially around the windows so the lintels and other features included in the Scalescenes kit will add that extra bit of character. Included in the paper kit are pits and flooring plus there is a pit lighting kit option ........ oh I definitely want that. (Reminds me of a railway meeting where I mischeivously suggested that a "mobile pit" would solve a lot of our rolling stock failures in remote locations and one chap asked where we could get one. I felt very guilty).
The Torri Laser instructions are a set of black and white printed sheets. Rather basic but adequate. Not a patch on the excelent Scalescenes instruction but I'm buying laser cutting professionalism so I'm not complaining.
The only thing I need now is the time to start building .......... come now ................. don't make excuses before you have even started ............ but ............... I have civic duties to perform and meetings or events to attend throughout the week. I am just getting over a busy 4 days in which I officiated at 3 remembrances services, two British Legion concerts and two post covid re-instated markets plus 3 zoom meetings ........... and there was me worried that retirement would be boring.
Best regards ........................ Greyvoices (alias John)