Just before I went away for Christmas (partly to Buckden itself!) I made a start painting the station building for Buckden. I've been putting it off for a while, but there was an excellent "Railway Modeller Shows You How" by Craig Tiley in the November 2014 issue (v. 65(759), pp. 908) on painting resin models with acrylics which gave me some pointers and a little confidence, So I bit the bullet. I finished the roof off today, and a couple of quick snaps are below (neither quite get the colour right - I need to grab some in daylight).

The model is Wills sheets over a plasticard/struct framework, with lasercut doors from Truetexture (http://www.truetexture.co.uk/3d-products/3d-doors/). I primed it all (minus the doors) with Halfords car primer in grey, then gave a dirty brown was for the mortar, and proceeded to almost-dry brush in the rest with neat acrylic mixed from Ivory Black, Raw and Burnt Umber, TitaniumWhite and Yellow Ocre. I was surprised how good a red I could get from those alone!

The woodwork need touching up, then I'll add in the gutters and stench pipe. The one chimney pot that's on is made from a plastic syringe end with wire wrapped around the rim. The four main ones I'm going to have a stab at 3D printing, as I can't find any of the prototypical ones in 4 mm, and they're so much of the character of Buckden for me to let them be wrong. It also needs a bit of a weather and some moss!

Obviously I will document how that goes here!

Happy New Year!

Marcus.