When planning Northall Dock I had the idea to build some stables along the now finished road. But when building a muck up I saw that the building did not hide the side of the main road as I wished. Then Scalescenes came with the canal cottage and I made the front and to put it along the road.

The question:

How to create the right derelict urban appearance for the cottage?

So I left the front unfinished. When I have such a problem I mostly do the following with success.

The Process:

I put it somewhere in my head. Not really searching for an answer. Just waiting for a coincidence. Mostly when I don’t aspect it the answer follows in one way or the other. I have learned to keep my mind open for it.

The Answer:

For the diorama I was looking how I could model the alleys between the buildings. These pictures gave my mostly information about the road surface and the details in the alleys. Very useful, but one picture showed me the answer to my question.

Then in the Card Modelling part of the RMweb there was an entry about a free download by Clever models. They make excellent American card models and textures in different scales but not in OO. After some support from Clever models I bought an O scale brick texture that I scaled down to 63% before printing.

The garden wall is a Scalescene texture selected on colour. The garden wall will not be visible to well when the diorama is finished.

The result:

Here some pictures of my interpretation for Northall Dock.

Road modelling is still going on. This is a slow progress that takes a lot of time.

In between I will give some thought to the final design of the warehouses along the dock. I can’t finish the road before I have done that.

Regards,

Job