This is a quick follow up. In my previous post I showed my third attempt at scratchbuilding in its pristine condition 

I have not tried any form of weathering before. But I have now tried using ground pastels. I started by tried it out on an old Superquick card kit of a cottage. This seemed to work ok so after taking a deap breath (not actually that wise when the tale is full of finely ground particles)  I 'did' the station, and I am really quite pleased with the result.

There is still some touching up to be done and the picture was taken before the matt varnish was completely dry. To my 50+ year old eyes it looks better than my merciless camera-phone thinks it does.  One thing I am surprised about is my eye for sizing it. I planned the model entirely from photos and had no idea of the dimensions. Now my copy of an excellent book Branch line to Chard by Ian Harrison has arrived. In this book he states that the station building was 84' by 26' . In 4mm to the foot, that means the model should be 336mm by 104mm My model is 338mm by 105mm!  The time I spent count bricks was not wasted.

 This book has given me  a lot of useful information including the fact that The platform awning was still there in 1966. I had assumed  that it was removed earlier than that so I am now going to have to add that.