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I'm pleased to say the above are now ready & on the website, at a cost of £25.00 each. JSM12B in the brick finish, and JSM12S in the stone finish. Jonathan JSModels

Thank you Mark, That's very kind of you to say. Unfortunately the layout is at the club (which is closed) so haven't been able to do anything at it since the lockdown, but once this situation is over & things start getting back to normal I'll hopefully be able to make some progress! Jonathan

Mark, That's good to know, I'll get a few cut then. They should be on the website in the next few days. Jonathan JSModels

Further to the above post, I had another thought - would there be any interest in an extra-low relief version, like this: The depth has been reduced to just 12mm. I've also deleted the slope to the end walls (without a roof they looked a bit odd just sticking up slightly). I've already created the drawings for these, but not sure if it's worth making them? Jonathan JSModels

Sometimes, you just want a building to fill a space backing onto railway property. So I've done some revised versions of the JSM02 kits, without the loading bay or office door, to represent the back of a factory (again, in brick and stone versions): These will be available shortly, and at a lower price than the full JSM02 kits. I've also been working on an older canalside/dockside mill. This will be available as low-relief (both the front and back) but also as a full building: This is only the outline, with an awful lot of details still to be added (doors, roof, brick & stone patterns, etc) so may be several weeks away... Jonathan JSModels

Thanks Dave, I don't have international shipping set up (as I'm sure you've discovered!) and I don't know if it would be viable. I'll have a look into it, and PM you with a shipping cost. Jonathan JSModels

Well, I've gone and done it - the website is now up & running! Please feel free to have a browse... JSModels There's not many products yet, and the website isn't terribly fancy, but hopefully it's OK! I've got the original kit, and the new slightly smaller kit in both brick and stone finishes, along with some lighting bits and some of the 3D printed vents. I'd appreciate any feedback on it, and on the ordering process, either in this thread or by PM if you prefer. Thank you to all for your support. Jonathan Scott JSModels

Steve, Thanks for your comments, much appreciated. The full relief ends is a distinct possibility, and one I hadn't really considered. It would be good to add one to the range, and would allow a 3/4 relief option as well as full relief. I'm hoping to have the website up over the Easter weekend, although I am still waiting on several deliveries of various components that have been delayed due to the current situation and I don't want to launch it without everything being in stock, so it may have to be put back a few days. Jonathan JSModels

I'd thought the same!

I may well do, but it wouldn't be for a while yet, sorry. As above, though it would have to be a smaller building, if I scaled the original up to 7mm I don't think it would fit on the cutter! Jonathan

Ralf, I've been looking at altering the same building in brick, but it's just not feasible; it turns out that the dimensions I used when originally designing it just aren't compatible with something as regular in size as bricks. All the critical dimensions (width of openings, width between openings, etc) need to be exact multiples of the size of a brick, and this mill simply wasn't! So, I decided to completely re-draw it from scratch, to suit brick dimensions. This will be my second kit - it's slightly smaller in width (9 windows wide, rather than 11) and 3 storeys rather than 4, but other than that it's extrememly similar: I wasn't planning on announcing it just yet, but since you asked I figured a bit of a spoiler wouldn't harm... Full details (exact dimensions, pricing, etc.) will be announced later. Steve, If you want one of the first kits, I will have the second batch available by the end of the week; I'll PM you regarding payments for those. The website will, if all goes to plan, be launched over the Easter weekend. This will feature the original kit, the new smaller brick mill above, plus a couple of other products too! The website will support full online ordering & card payments. Jonathan Scott JS Models

Not are the vast majority of new buildings, to be fair

Do you mean the exact same design, but in brick rather than stone? That would be pretty straightforward to do. Or just that a future kit of a brick-built mill/warehouse would be nice? Jonathan

Thank you to all those members who have purchased kits, I am very pleased to say the first batch sold out within a few hours of posting the details on here! Those kits are now on the way & should be arriving in the next couple of days. For those members that have asked since, I am working on another batch; I'm also working on a website with online ordering, which should be up in the next couple of weeks. I'll update this thread when it's ready to launch. Thanks again for the support, Jonathan

Joseph, I had to go back & check then (!) but no, not a typo Jonathan

For anyone interested, I've just posted details in the 'Smaller Suppliers' section regarding my first kit, based on the first building in this thread. JSM01 - Large Low Relief Warehouse Kit jrb

Following on from the building I designed for my shunting puzzle layout 'Haigh Sidings', several people asked me if they were available to purchase so I have now developed this into my first kit: This is a large, imposing building! Overall dimensions are: 370mm wide, 60mm deep (78mm including the steps), and 260mm high (approx 14 ½” wide, 2 ¼" deep (3" inc.), and 10 ¼" high). This kit has been developed from my original, and includes many improvements over the original. The model features: • Windows/doorframe which can be individually removed from the main building for painting & glazing separately, and re-fitted afterwards (makes painting the frames so much easier!); • Includes 6x blanking panels which can replace any of the window pieces to depict blocked-up windows (4 in matching stone, 2 in brick); • Steps can be modelled facing to the right (as pictured), or to the left; • Loading bay with internal platform suitable for road or rail traffic (loading bay is high & wide enough for OO gauge rolling stock on code 75 or code 100 track); • Loading bay doors can be modelled as 2x hinged doors, or 1x large sliding door; • Internal floors to all levels including flagstone detail to loading bay, plus 3 internal walls (1 fixed, 2 can be placed wherever required); • Laser-cut tile strips for the roof. All above pictures show completed but un-painted kit. The kit includes: • 7x sheets of parts (6 at 2mm thick, 1 at 3mm thick) laser-cut from high-quality laser-grade MDF; • 2x A4 sheets of laser cut, pre-coloured card tile strips for the roof; • 1x sheet clear glazing material; • Full assembly instructions. There are a limited number of completed kits now available; cost is £35.00, plus £4.50 postage (Royal Mail Second Class 'Signed For'). I also have some LED light sets available for illuminating the interior. These come as a string of 30x lights (I found I only needed 28 (7 LEDs per floor)) with a small battery box & switch attached: These can be used as supplied, but I would recommend wiring them to any 3V DC supply, as detailed in my build thread. The lights are priced at £3.00 per set when purchased with the warehouse kit. I am hoping to get an online shop up in the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime if anyone would like to purchase one, or has any questions, please PM me for more details. Jonathan Scott JS Models

There's not been a lot of progress on the layout recently, I've been busy with a couple of other projects. But, I have had some detail bits 3D printed by ianmaccormac who graciously invited me over to see his Elegoo Mars resin printer - I'm 99% sure I'm going to get one of the newer versions when they come out! He printed me some extractor fans/vents: These are designed to fit into the top corner panes of the windows on the first mill: A bit of paint, and a fine mesh on the second, and they'll look pretty good I reckon! JRB

Thank you. Yes, the first mill has been developed into a kit, which will be available soon. I don't want to say too much about it on here yet though as I don't want to upset the moderators/BRM

Mike, Cheque? What's that? The problem wasn't so much marking the width of the cut, it was stopping the blade wandering off as soon as it touches the tube. If you don't get the blade at *precisely* 90 degrees, it inevitably wanders and cuts a spiral along the tube.

Update Number One: Buffer Stop The track was, if you remember, far too close to the corner of the new mill. I was thinking I'd have to rip the siding up & re-lay it on a slight curve to move it over. Then Mike (Enterprising Western) pointed out that all I needed to do was shorten it slightly! Here's how it was, with the required 3 wagons in place having been uncoupled: As you can see, there is a bit of space at the end, so I decided to shorten the siding by 2 sleepers: Once the ballast & sleepers were taken up, it was a simple job to attach some new sleepers to the buffer stop castings, and glue them down on a scrap of cork: Once ballasted, no one will ever know... Update Number Two: Water Tank You may recall my plan to use some of the Wills 'Vari-Girder' panels as a water tank on top of the new mill. First job was to cut some styrene tube (5.5mm diameter, IIRC) by putting a short length in a drill, powering it up, and then applying a scalpel blade to it: It's harder than you'd think to cut 6 pieces to equal thickness, and I ended up with far more of them than I needed, but the best 6 were glued to the centre of the panels: The I used some 10x40 thou plastic strip, with some 10x20 thou strip on top, to form the reinforcement: Frst one completed: You can see I didn't bother to mitre the corners of the thinner pieces! The above pic is cruelly close, and it's not really noticable by eye. The first three that will form the front of the tank: Not terribly consistent, but not terribly bad, either. I'll take that! Still to finish off the other 3, this was quite tedious & was a strain for my eyes, so they'll be done another day. And I didn't have time to mock up the possibility of a second bridge in the centre space... JRB

I tried that yesterday after I read your suggestion, but it didn't look great. It really needs some height. I was thinking about it earlier whilst driving, and I'm wondering about the possibility of putting another bridge in there, from front to back as per the existing one at the end, with a small retaining wall and embankment running alongside the tracks. It would add some height to the front of the layout, forcing you to look down onto the tracks & increasing the sense of everything overshadowing the tracks. Not sure if it'll work or not, but I might mock it up tonight if I have time. JRB

An excellent point, Ray. Thanks. JRB

Colin, Appreciate the suggestion, but I'm still not convinced that would work in the space available. I've looked on Google images for a sub-station in between big buildings, and I can't find a single example. They're all in much more open locations. I'm thinking of a retaining wall to give the height, and then top it off with a low relief building end with a lean-to shed, and a small walled-off yard area. This could be a small garage or tyre shop, and would give scope to have a little cameo scene in it: JRB