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Thought I would make a start on an entry into the competition .

I'm still at the planning stages using a piece of paper for the base but I hope to have something a bit more permanent soon.

Luckily I had a part made structure I could chop up to fit and as you can see it will be a small corner of a non specific industry .

Thanks for looking .

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Been doing a bit more work tonight on the main structure .

 

Using the excellent free warehouse kit from http://scalescenes.com/ I made up a brick base for the structure ;

 

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Here I have had a go at mocking up the roof in card , quite a challenge to make semi low relief structures at an angle , I think the roof angles will need a fine tune !

 

 

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Thanks for looking

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for the comments everyone .

 

More work done on the structure yesterday , finally added the roof and I'm surprised it turned out as well as it did , took me a while to work out the angles .

 

Just a bit more detailing to add to the building then time for paint.

 

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More work done tonight , finished off the rest of the building with gutter and drainpipe, primed and ready for paint .

 

I would also like to thank Mallard60022 for answering my wanted ad and providing me with some SMP Scaleway flexi track .

 

I must say its the first time I have actually used said track and I must say compared to the " train set " track  I usually use it looks fantastic , I think I will use it on any future projects from now on !

 

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A little work done today ;

 

Managed to start laying the groundwork using cardboard for the concrete hardstandings ,  the " gravelled " section for the storage tanks is just black sand lightened up with weathering powders .

 

The filler is the base for a grass bank to seperate the buildings from the trackbed section.

 

 

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How do you do the concrete like that? It looks amazing

Thank you !

 

It's just simply grey card from packaging , cereal box card would be much the same thing , cut to shape and then just lightly dusted with weathering powders . I collect any loose powders when weathering wagons etc in a jam jar and its a nice dusty grey brown mucky colour , this is what I used on the concrete and applied it using a soft brush.

 

I might do a quick photo guide later if anybody would be interested ?

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Spent an hour this evening giving the shed a bit of grot , just need to do the roof then I can get it stuck down and bed it in.

 

Next job will be the storage tanks .and a bit of associated pipework.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

 

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The way you've done that warehouse gave me so many ideas for my own warehouse
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The way you've done that warehouse gave me so many ideas for my own warehouse

 

Glad I could be of some help , I can see from your layout blog you were thinking of using some Walthers kits , while I agree they are very impressive I would recommend you get a couple of packs of Wills sheets and some Plastruct  girder and see what you can come up with . It would be a lot cheaper and results in something a bit more individual.

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Glad I could be of some help , I can see from your layout blog you were thinking of using some Walthers kits , while I agree they are very impressive I would recommend you get a couple of packs of Wills sheets and some Plastruct girder and see what you can come up with . It would be a lot cheaper and results in something a bit more individual.

I ended up building a platform for the box wagons and using the backscene as the frontage to the warehouse.
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A bit more progress this morning , I've made up some guard rails to add a bit of protection to the running line .

 

After browsing around for ideas for making armco barriers , several suggestions came up including corrugated cardboard or takeaway trays etc.

 

Another suggestion was 7mm corrugated plasticard , not having any to hand I had a look to see what I could come up with so .......

 

 

 

Slaters 4mm corrugated plastic cut into strips , Evergreen strip to create more of a profile and some I beam for posts I have managed to come up with this ;

 

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I dont think it looks too bad just needs painting up and bedding in.

 

Thanks for looking

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Finally got round to sticking the building down , as you can see added a few details to the building as well , the louvered vent is the front of a roof vent for the old Hornby engine shed ( I think its from that , I just had them in a box of stuff I was given )

 

The electrical junction boxes are just plasticard laminated to give the thickness with round plastic rod for the cable runs into the ground.

 

I think the next job will be the storage tanks and pipework.

 

Cheers for looking

 

 

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That looks excellent. The effect of the weathering in the most recent pics is very convincing, there' a sense of light atmospheric haze so real you an almost touch it.

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That looks excellent. The effect of the weathering in the most recent pics is very convincing, there' a sense of light atmospheric haze so real you an almost touch it.

Thanks

 

Although I think that's probably more an accident of lighting rather than design !

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Done some work on the storage tanks tonight .

 

As you can see very simple , old Triang tanker bodies and a bit of plastic rod .

 

Obviously I'm no expert in industrial plumbing and I'm not sure what pipe does what , but  I'm sure it all does something !

 

Hopefuly once its all painted up it wont look too bad ( although I cant help but feel it looks an objective for some Space Marines to capture in a game of 40k ! )

 

 

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