The Shed Thread

[Mick Bonwick]

Back to sheds, please.

 

 

 

Edited July 4, 2021 by Mick Bonwick

[Alister_G]

Yep, those are huts...

 

Al.

[Stubby47]

3 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said:

A thought for the programmers amongst you:

 

If structure = shed

     then use = storage

 

If structure = hut

     then use = accommodation

 

Insert delimiters according to programming language.

 

 

 

11 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said:

Back to sheds, please.

 

 

 

 

Well, you know who to blame the thread drift on...

[Steamport Southport]

24 minutes ago, mullie said:

Oh Assembler!

 

I built an Airfix kit once.

 

If you bought the kit you got two.... 

 

And a loading gauge and water crane.

 

http://www.airfixrailways.co.uk/TrackAcc.htm

 

Still available from Dapol.

 

 

Jason

[MrWolf]

One of my favourite kinds of shed is actually a hut.

Nissen huts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last two are Romney huts, totally different kettle of fish. Nominally 96' long, 36' wide and 18' high. Many were sold off after WWII in kit form, brand new, for £90, buyer collects. A lot ended up as garages, haulage/ coach depotsor engineering factories. A model one would make a good view block or backscene. A change from the usual warehouse or railway arches perhaps.

 

 

[MrWolf]

A quick internet search for inspirational sheds:

 

 

Looking rather railway.

 

 

Shepherd's hut, probably now a £10000 garden feature on eBay.

 

 

Modern garden sheds are made from firewood and quickly return to the natural state.

 

 

Proper sheds take around 100 years to become firewood. 

 

 

The kind of shed I find interesting and rusty things in.

 

 

Modelling challenge, probably.

 

 

This calls for the ivy making skills of 

 

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I am sick to death of that happening every time you tag someone. Delete so far and it just copies itself.

 

 

Anyone know how to model two inch thick moss?

 

 

More lean away than lean-to.

[Mick Bonwick]

27 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

 

 

 

Anyone know how to model two inch thick moss?

 

 

Pigment fixer and pigment. If I remember, I'll do a demo tomorrow. 

 

 

[Mikkel]

6 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Anyone know how to model two inch thick moss?

 

Ear wax? Not the flakes, but the gooey kind. When dry, paint green.

 

I've sometimes been tempted to build a whole layout with just a single small shed as the only structure. This is the closest I've got so far, an early rendition of the bay platform at Farthing.

 

 

 

The small shed is a Wills plate-layers hut. The larger shed was kit-bashed from a couple of these, based on a prototype that appears in early photos of Newbury (see also Vaughan’s “Great Western Architecture”).

 

 

The photos are from 2011, back in the days when 500x300 was considered a decent image size!

 

[gwr517]

Gentlemen,Ladies also if there are any reading, in Austrarlia we advertise run down sheds/houses etc as  Renovators Delight The UK seems to have its fair share.

Doug.

[Worsdell forever]

16 hours ago, Ian J. said:

 

presuming a 'Basic' structure as against a {} structure.

 

 

Aren't those {}  a bit like those GWR pagoda huts that have blown over in the wind? 

[kitpw]

14 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Anyone know how to model two inch thick moss?

good question....

[mullie]

6 hours ago, Worsdell forever said:

 

Aren't those {}  a bit like those GWR pagoda huts that have blown over in the wind? 

Or an empty mind!

[Mick Bonwick]

22 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said:

Pigment fixer and pigment. If I remember, I'll do a demo tomorrow. 

 

 

 

I remembered. You can find it here:

 

 

[Captain Kernow]

On 04/07/2021 at 18:13, Ian J. said:

Are we in VB land with those = signs? If not, then it 'should' be something more like:

 

If structure == shed Then

   use = storage

ElseIf structure == hut Then

   use = accommodation

End If

 

presuming a 'Basic' structure as against a {} structure.

 

I've always hated VB (and VBA) for not differentiating the symbol for equivalence from the symbol for assignment.

 

On 04/07/2021 at 18:49, Ian J. said:

If structure == boat Then

    If boat.type == canal Then

        use = accommodation

    Else

        use = transport

    End If

ElseIf structure == Class 66 Then

    use = shed

End If

 

On 04/07/2021 at 20:13, Alister_G said:

function IdentifyStructure(structure: string): string;

begin

         result := '';

         if not (structure = 'shed') or (structure = 'hut') then end;

         if structure = 'shed' then result := 'storage';

         if structure = 'hut' then result := 'accomodation';

end;

 

And you lot have a go at me for mentioning Art!

 

[Mick Bonwick]

Is there a size limit to a shed/hut then?

 

 

Similar shape to a Nissan hut.

 

[Rowsley17D]

24 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said:

Is there a size limit to a shed/hut then?

 

 

Similar shape to a Nissan hut.

 

 

Nissen hut, Mick. You'll have @MrWolf on to you in a minute.

[MrWolf]

17 minutes ago, Mick Bonwick said:

Is there a size limit to a shed/hut then?

 

 

Similar shape to a Nissan hut.

 

 

Still a temporary structure of wriggly tin.

 

Btw, it's NissEn, though NissAn have made quite a few "Sheds" over the years. IMHO 

 

So maybe you're right!

 

Following the wartime theme, there's still a lot of these knocking about.

 

 

Adapted as garden sheds.

 

 

Or animal shelters.

 

 

[Rowsley17D]

@Mick Bonwicktold you.

[Mick Bonwick]

1 minute ago, Rowsley17D said:

 

Nissen hut, Mick. You'll have @MrWolf on to you in a minute.

 

Yes, Jonathan, I'm being deliberately provocative, bearing in mind his threat earlier in the thread. There's a little emoji on the last line of my post.

[MrWolf]

Not punching an NCO.

 

Not falling for that again... 

[Stubby47]

Having not been in any military service (unless you count the Cubs), my rank probably is about the same as Baldrick.  Although I have owned a Ltd Co. at one point, making me a CEO. If that counts.

[Nick C]

Where do barns fit into the shed/hut/etc hierarchy? They are frequently used for storage, or for accommodation (of livestock).

 

And engine sheds for that matter...

[NHY 581]

1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said:

 

 

 

And you lot have a go at me for mentioning Art!

 

 

You called ? 

 

 

[MrWolf]

I too have owned a limited company.

 

I didn't do well enough to have a self indulgent portrait of myself in a waistcoat behind my desk though.

 

Come to think of it, I didn't have a desk.

 

I guess that makes me a Baldrick too. A sort of PSC. Private, Steerage Class.

[Steamport Southport]

1 minute ago, Nick C said:

 

And engine sheds for that matter...

 

The clue is in the name....  

 

Engine sheds were used for storage and engines under repair.

 

 

 

Locomotives in steam were kept outside. This is what happens when they aren't.

 

https://chrisdownesbirds.com/p12038755/h465F8882#h465f8882

 

Preston shed burning down in 1960.

 

 

Jason