During the Ffarquhar Branch's time on the exhibition circuit at the start of the 60's, several changes were made to some of the structures on the layout. This was mainly swapping some of the Bilteezi card buildings to the plastic Airfix kits. One building which had this change was the main station building. originally the Bilteez country station kit, the model was replaced (Perhaps due to water damage during it's time) with a new building made up from a modified Airfix Church. When i first read about this build I was puzzled as to how this conversion could have been made. This answer was solved while I was looking for a copy of the December issue of Railway Modeller 1959. The only way I could get a copy was to buy the whole collection of RM magazines from 1950 for a fair price. Anyhow, while I was reading them I found in the July issue an article on how to convert the Airfix Church into a station building. The model showing in the photograph had a very similar appearance to that of the MkII building on Ffarquhar Station. After looking through the article and through several reference photographs I had, I ordered the church kit from Dapol and set to work on the kit bash. At first I wasn't sure on how it was going to turn out but as the build progressed I was surprised to find how simple and easy the build was. Most of the kit was used to make the main building but there were some other features that need to be ordered in. So once they arrived in the post yesterday I set to work on getting the building stages finished that afternoon. Now the station building had another small building (Toilets) next to it but the kit didn't have all the part to make it so In order to make that building I'll have to order another church kit from Dapol but for now it can wait. Next stage is the priming and painting.







More to follow soon.