That's looking great Will. Make sure you bracecthe corners and add some Walls inside otherwise thinner prasticard has a tendency to bow. Yours should be better than some of mine because it's much worse when you laminated two sheets together.

That's looking great Will. Make sure you bracecthe corners and add some Walls inside otherwise thinner prasticard has a tendency to bow. Yours should be better than some of mine because it's much worse when you laminated two sheets together.

Good advice from the trenches, cheers! Are there any good ways to brace such that it doesn't look wrong through the windows? I was thinking about having the left side fairly open, with office bits in it, although the right doesn't need to be so much.

Great idea with the Lego Will. Looks nice, neat work so far. James, try laminating with double sided tape, plasticard is much more stable that way

Hth

Jim

Building looks very good, keep posting progress.

I was surprised by this comment "This is the sort of thing that real modellers use engineers squares or machined metal blocks for, but I'm not a real modeller and don't have these kinds of things - one day, perhaps " Real modellers improvise, just as you have done. The interesting thing is your square can be adjusted to whatever dimensions you need. Now where is the kids lego box.........

I still think you need a garage full of machine tools to be a real modeller - I would class myself a kitchen table bodger, and I'm quite happy with that

The Lego is definitely a good half-way house though - ubiquitous, cheap, and astonishingly well-made for what it is. Since we have quite a bit of it around I'm often finding unexpected things to do with it - for example, the corrugated iron on this loco shed:

was made by pressing small pieces of a foil oven tray between stacks of Lego 2x1 "grille" bricks. It was quite hard work - I wouldn't want to make a bigger building like that - but it did do the job.

Keep bodging to the same high standard then. I have been lucky enough to aquire some of the tools you aspire too via various means and still fancy others, but it doesn't always equate that the end product will be that much better, if better at all! It means I model away from the family in a cold garage (especially in the winter) because most of the tools wont fit indoors or I would have to keep carting them around. A basic simple tool box isn't such a bad thing.

That's a good point about the bulky tools, I hadn't really thought about that side of it. I was surprised by how much modelling I could do on holiday with (lots of) plastic plus glue, one knife, one file, one saw, scraps of sandpaper, a hardback book, and a cutting mat.

I'm in the middle of a house move at the moment and having leave my cold but large garage behind and will need to move into a wooden shed/workshop at the new location. I cant believe how much I have had to pack away in the garage over the last few days. I think there is more in there than in the rest of the house with 5 occupants!. Fitting it into the new workshop is going to be very interesting. I will definitely need to declutter when time allows. I may also be able to get on with some modelling as well. Keep up the good work and keep me/us inspired with more pictures until I am able to get some tools out again.... I fear it may be some time as the new Workshop will need aquiring and erecting, insulating, lining, wiring etc....

The lego is a great idea but perhaps suffers from gravity...? I recently bought some 'snap & glue set squares' off EBay dead cheap. They have an inner and outer section with magnets to hold them together either side of a right angle, keeping the angle squared. Since you can position 'em halfway up a wall it's perhaps a bit easier to keep them out of the way of the glue.

That sounds like a good idea too - I saw somewhere (here?) recently that Micro Mark do a magnetic clamping tray which looks good for smaller parts.