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Steady progress on Brafferton continues. Mike Taylor did kindly invite the layout to Expo, but we agreed in the end to give it a break from Association events for a little while.
The station area continues to receive attention and the cattle dock base and platform (brick bit) are in. I've been playing about plastering these into the contours of the land and laying the station approach road from the main road and overbridge on the right hand end of the scenic area:
As a result of this, my dissatisfaction with the station building (main bit) has reached critical mass. Rather stupidly, I omitted the detail on the rear wall, thinking it would not be apparent to general viewers of the layout. Wrong; it is! Secondly, I was not overly happy with the accuracy of the reliefs around the windows and the building seemed to lack the impression of solidity that such a edifice should have.
Finally, the walls have warped like a Starship Enterprise and the building looks like it has been on short rations for a month or two; damn plasticard! Back to the drawing board!
The roof has not warped (no lamination of plasticard) and seems to be usable. Additionally the Noch tiles do make it rather attractive; I have therefore commenced new walls around the original roof.
Reverting to my favourite media of card and paper, I have attempted to represent the distinctive reliefs around the windows and doors. This blow up shows the result:
After some tomfoolery, I decided that two layers of paper to provide the relief was about right. The big problem I've always had was lining the window apertures accurately with the relief overlay; the relief apertures are only 1/2 mm wider than the main window and door apertures. After several unsuccessful attempts at measuring and marking, I draw the profiles up on CAD, overlaying each section to assess accuracy. The relief layer is therefore a sheet of Scalescenes Aged Red Brick pritted to the CAD outline. The outline for the inner wall is pritted to card. The various apertures are cut in each of these and then checked for alignment. Once happy, I pritted a further layer of brickpaper on the inner wall and cut and folded it back through the apertures. Finally the relief layer is pritted to the inner wall and any excess trimmed from the outsides. You will see that the end wall (shorter) has the relief layer untrimmed. Once the shell is assembled, these will cover the edges of the front and back walls. I must say I'm a much happier bunny, having reverted to card and away from plastic. Plastic does have it's uses, but not for brick buildings in my experience!
More soon!
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