Phew! I had to dig deep to find this blog, way down the list as it's been some time since my last waffle. Time for a nice cuppa I think. Which reminds me why I dug out this blog.

I've been pretty busy of late with one thing or the other and concequently no modelling has been done so here's a little something to keep this space alive.

This :-

I've often thought about what could be done with these cartons once emptied as they're made of nice fine white card, just crying out for something to be made out of them. I opened it out carefully and as they're only tacked together with spots of glue here and there the flaps and sides were hardly damaged. I thought it would make a large warehouse/goods/engine shed and at around a scale 40ft x 33ft, a nice size. so I started marking it out so it had large windows down one side, a personal door and large sliding doors on the front opening.

This done I set about cladding the walls? I wanted a brick base around 4ft high and corrugated iron for the rest of the structure. I planned to use material from Wordsworths models collection designed by Mike Martin and available for free download from his website. I originally hoped to get the complete structure from the one box but found I needed extra card for the roof panel which I attached to the roof sub-panels. here's a picture of the opened out box, marked out and partially clad :-

I downloaded enough copies of Wordsworth's 'line side huts sheet 3' to provide the windows and stuck those to the panel I had previously cut out and mounted these to a frame so as to make the window recessed, same with the personal door next to it. For the inside of the windows I merely drew out the frames with black marker on a white background, this gave the impression of light coming through from outside. Once this was done and most of the corrugated iron cladding was fixed I glued up the 2 rear corners and then finally the 2 front corners, first cutting an access panel in the floor so I could press down from inside when fitting the roof and gain access to clad the flaps once fixed.

I then added the pre-clad roof panel and touched in where any white card was showing, adding a little weathering here and there. I mentioned making the roof panel from extra material and this was obtained from a box of biscuits from Lidle's, the box had a predominately green finish and so I cut out four panels, laminating them together to make the 2 main doors which I suspended from a length of handrail wire using some plastic handrail knobs I had in the box.

This is how it looked when I had finished, not the most glamorous of buildings but just an old rough tin shack.

so not bad for next to no cost, maybe one day when I get round to doing a layout it might fit in up the back somewhere.

cheers for now

Roly