The station waiting shelter on platform at Clare is an attractive '1865 style' medium building. The building currently has a sign in the window which says 'coming soon - model railway' but I don't know what is planned or who is building it. Platform 1 by the way is a now a very pleasant little cafe which does a damn good bacon roll.

I've been trying to refine my technique for making these because I felt that the quions (the raised brickwork) on the previous attempt was a little too much relieve.

The prototype building detail looks like this..

You'll notice that the quion brickwork is only raised by less than an inch and that, in this particular builders' version, the brickwork is yellow brick down the whole corner and not just in the raised areas.

My previous model of a GER station building was based on the drawings of Takeley but in the primarily red brick colours.

I used very thin ply for the quions in the past but thought I'd try a couple of tests with  thin card. Seeing Alpha Mill at Scaleforum on Saturday encouraged me to have a go. The first attempt was a bit rough and ready, this really is a cruel enlargement.

Second go I took a bit more trouble over putting together and I'm happier with the outcome.

I've got the drawings done for the brickwork of the whole building so I'll try and get the complete building cut and see how we go.

David