The last couple of weeks nothing did go as planned and hoped. My wife has serious problems with the flu, I had a little accident with my bike and a friend of yours needs some personal coaching en help. And luckily I found still some time to do some modelling. About the result you can read below.

As I tried out in the design stage I tried Scalescenes brown stretcher bond at the building behind the cottages.

Before building the final background building I printed the texture of the cottages on the Fine Art photo paper. The colour was so much deeper red that I reconsidered the texture of the background building. After printing several textures I decided to look for something totally different.

On Northall Dock I used a texture from Clever Models. So I got I look at their textures I downloaded three of them to try out. After testing I had two options and the final choice was called “cream city brick”. It looks like garden brick bond and has a nice texture after printing.

I used one the templates from Scalescenes High Street backs to create the building. After I had finished it I was not happy with the final result.

I had a look at my own reference map of Northall and searched again for the templates I could use from the Scalescenes High Street backs.

For the windows I wanted to try out again the same approach I had used for the factory and my first attempt of the back ground building. Scalescenes doesn’t have the windows I wanted to use, so I searched again in by Clever Models for some windows. The windows the use in their Coal Merchant building could do the job. So I bought the kit.

I tried the Clever Model windows out on the Scalescenes textures.

For the roofs I used a texture TX161 from Model Railway Scenery.

The final result you can see below.

I like to hear your opinion about the use of the Clever Model texture and kit parts for British buildings.

Or if anyone has useful information, comments or suggestions please let me know.

Kind regards,

Job