Lugsdale Road - The Problem with Urban Living
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Well as I mentioned in my last post, I had managed to pull of the crime of the century and managed to get away with just applying emulsion paint to the backscenes on Lugsdale road.
The good news is that the heat has died down now and the Domestic Overlord is still none the wiser, but not wishing to tempt fate further painting of the backscene will be strategically delayed for a while.
What I have managed to do while laying low avoiding the fuzz is to work on what seems like the endless supply of buildings that the layout needs and I'm still only working on board 1. My attention has been focused on the buildings that will take up position at the back of the layout, which means they will mostly be hidden, which for some of my work is a good thing.
Where possible for the industrial buildings, as I'm sometimes a bit of a lazy modeller I have been using severely butchered Metcalfe kits, I will let you work out which ones. Hopefully although there origins will be obvious to most modellers, I hope that I have used them to create something a little less common, as construction of the rear street scene progresses they will of course get a lot of weathering.
The immediate problem with creating all these buildings is that there is a lot of roofs that will require slates, though for some of the factories that will flank the station area they will be finished with a roof felt type covering (research showed this was quite common in certain areas), plus I kind of like the use of easy options sometimes.
Being a little angel lately, not my words but those of the Domestic Overlord (though I believe Lucifer was an angel once), I may see if the DO may help me by applying some of the required slates, which means I will be able to concentrate on other little jobs.
One of the decisions I have made lately is that the station buildings will be those built by the LNWR, which means they will be of a timber construction (just like those on Foster Street but different). I had considered setting the station in L&Y territory but as I kind of like LNWR locomotives, especially of the eight coupled variety I thought the LNWR was the better option (plus I have a G2 kit to build, and a couple of other locomotive ideas).
So basically that's all I have managed to get up to, as ever so many jobs to do but so little progress, what I need to do next is get some cork sheeting and lay some track, after all it is supposed to be a railway layout.
As ever until next time Happy Modelling 
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