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Garsdale Railway Workers Cottages: Drawing in the detail 2.

Southern Fabricator

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Alright, here goes the marking out the front details of the railway side terrace houses.
The entrance lobbies have a higher roof apex than those on the 3° slope stepped houses; otherwise all other details are similar.
The gable roofs of the lobbies took a bit of fiddling around as I found out due to extra allowances needed for the 3.0mm foam board to line up correctly to the terrace house wall/lobby detail and their roof tiles.

 

All to do now is a spray coat of acrylic primer on each exterior, then fit the window glazing, lobby entrance dividing panel and roof slate tiling before fixing all three of them to the main front wall. No completion pressure here then!

 

Moving on to the main assembly, I pre-cut the mid roof support beams and made rectangles for the first floor slightly undersized for ease of fitting, then started gluing the back and end walls together checking the quoins were aligned and square.
Fortunately I had plenty of the Dandry Mire viaduct plywood cut for the inside of the pier supports to use as temporary supports for the terrace house assembly.
The internal short walls had extra strips and angle pieces added for strengthening to help keep everything together.
Here’s the process: First the back and end walls, then the two middle walls, glue and fix the three first floors to their supports and then the front railway side wall. The top middle roof supports were glued into place last. About 30minutes work allowing for keeping all components square.
I then placed some weights (piers) on top of the front wall to ensure everything stayed together overnight while the PVA glue bonded.

 

The next day the whole assembly was then sprayed with acrylic surface primer over the entire exterior surface.
The remaining roof supports that were originally off cuts from the middle and end walls were held in position with temporary pins then glued in.
Next up was to fit and glue the three entrance lobbies/porches to the front of the building before tackling the slate tile roof.

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Guius

Some nice model making going on here, hope you don't need to put those combination squares back together in a rush, it's a heck of a fiddly job! Hope you keep us posted.

 

Guy

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