METCALFE ENGINE SHED

[paul 27]

P0313  Two Road Shed   what are the main improvements  from the original model,  have they added more detail

 or  better quality printing.

Edited July 18, 2019 by paul 27

[Compound2632]

I've just compared the photos on the Metcalfe website with my old example. The clerestory roof has gained proper louvres in place of the flat printed ones on the original; the smoke vents have been re-drawn with horizontal bands at intervals; and a walkway along the lower edge of the lights has been added. The main walls have gained a blue brick base and the office has been redesigned. Are the rafters now laser-cut? The original was a very passable impression of a small Midland straight shed of the 1880s/1890s - Ilkley or Mansfield, though the latter was a 4-road shed - two kits conjoined. Stack many up and you'd get Sheffield Millhouses! The re-vamp seems to me to dilute this a bit - the blue brick is a bit dubious.

 

It's also offered in a grey ashlar "Settle Carlisle" version - PO337 - which is dodgy on two counts: firstly, Metcalfe's ashlar isn't very Settle-Carlisle like - the SuperQuick ashlar or rubble papers are much more the thing - and secondly, there were no engine sheds on the Settle & Carlisle. The nearest approach would be Hellifield; Durran Hill was a roundhouse of the square variety. There was a proposal for a one-road shed at Appleby (? or Hawes Junction?) that came to nothing. Perhaps this is Metcalfe's tribute to Marthwaite.

 

 

[paul 27]

Thanks for the info so the original is acceptable and I presume is better for making a multiple shed.

[Compound2632]

7 hours ago, paul 27 said:

I presume is better for making a multiple shed.

 

I see no reason why the old should be preferred over the new should be better for that. I think the new roof detail looks better, but personally I'd prefer to have the old walls and office building.

[Jub45565]

On 19/07/2019 at 17:58, Compound2632 said:

 The original was a very passable impression of a small Midland straight shed of the 1880s/1890s - Ilkley

 

It's also offered in a grey ashlar "Settle Carlisle" version - PO337 - which is dodgy on two counts: firstly, Metcalfe's ashlar isn't very Settle-Carlisle like - the SuperQuick ashlar or rubble papers are much more the thing - and secondly, there were no engine sheds on the Settle & Carlisle.

 

 

 

If you'd left it without stating a location, I'd agree - passable for a generic MR 2 road shed. However, Ilkley it is not. (Only 1 window per sidewall bay, no central pillar between the two roads through the doorway, wrong style of vent above the doors, ...).  Also, Ilkey was dressed stone - not brick.

 

Therefore, the latter (PO337) they have put in their S&C range as that is how they sell their MR stone structures, but again it is passable as a MR stone shed.

[Compound2632]

Fair do's. The Metcalfe kit is generic enough to look typically Midland without in fact being anywhere in particular - which in some ways is ideal. Sorry I didn't pay enough attention when thumbing through Hawkins & Reeve, LMS Engine Sheds Vol. 2 for examples to spot that Ilkley was stone not brick.

[wasdavetheroad]

This is my not yet completed version of the old kit. fits the Cumbria feel of my layout

 

[paul 27]

Nice model Dave, did you do the conversion work your self,  what did you use 

for the red paint finish on the boarding & doors,   thanks.

Edited July 30, 2019 by paul 27

[wasdavetheroad]

I added the central pillar at the door end used lego single bricks for the cores of the smoke vents. the stone work is scalescenes papers and I 'midlndes' the shed by using wilko ruby ring emulsion for the red bits