Despite appearances to the contrary, there has been some progress on the layout in between stock building sessions. Today has seen the main section of the station building constructed based on the mockup Here (Old RMweb)

As an idea of scale the station building is around 26 inches long.

The front wall is made from three layers - the centre layer is mounting board with the window and door holes cut (fairly) exactly into it. The back layer is also mounting board but with larger window cut outs for mounting the glazing. The front layer is planked plasticard. Onto the plasticard is glued various sections of evergreen strip to represent beading and the canopy support columns. On top of these will go the etched canopy brackets supplied by Lochgorm Kits.

Round the back there is a large piece of card (from an old bookcase back) along the top of the building for strength with room dividers made from the cardboard packing from a shirt!

I've used different glues depending on the requirements :

Plasticard to plastic strip - Liquid Poly

Laminating card layers - PVA. This is slow but can be adjusted easily

Plasticard to card and dividers/support structures - Hot glue gun. Fast and effective but little time for adjustment.

Next up is start painting the building and constructing the roof/canopy structure.

There was one slight error during construction - I got the front completed, put it on the layout and discovered that it was around 3 inches too long! So a section has been removed from the centre. The error crept in as my tolerances on the mockup were a little too tight for the real construction.

Andy B)