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  1. Littleworth is the village at the end of the branch line from Northall. I have finished the main building of first model for Littleworth: a detached cottage. On the left side I have planned a garage. A low relief kit of Petite Properties and a picture from internet are used as a base. The Flemish bond brick texture is from Wordsworth Models. Free to download. All the other used textures are from Scalescenes, except for the curtains. I used for the roof some useful advice from the excellent book of David Wright “Making rural buildings.” This is the way I made the roof: The Scalescenes texture is A4 filled with rows of clay tiles. Scalescenes provides also an A4 with lines for gluing the tiles in the right position. I didn’t want a clean roof and searched for an example on the website of Textures.com. I use this to create the roof for my cottage. On the picture you can see the process: 1. Glue the lines on the roof 2. Gluing the clay tiles on 220 gsm cardstock 3. Cutting a line of clay tiles 4. Giving the individual line his shape 5. Colouring the underside of the row with a raw umber pastel pencil 6. Adding the shaped and coloured row to the roof 7. Repeating step 3 to 6 And of course, a picture of the finished cottage. A picture in this size shows my some points that are waiting for my pastel pencil and a chimney pot that is not correctly pushed in. Will be continued. As usual comment are much appreciated. Kind regards, Job
    6 points
  2. Bullfinch is just about done, apart from some small but enjoyable final touches such as crew, glazing and some suitable lamps. Here it faces off against City of Truro! The plates are from 247 Developments and It's numbered for the post-1912 numbering scheme. The kit has been terrific fun and while the end result is more impressionistic than anything else, it does look different enough to the City to represent the small-drivered 4-4-0s and is certainly a nice runner. I can't remember if the City was sprayed with a rattle-can or airbrush, but it would have been done using Railmatch's later shade of GWR green, whereas for the Bird I opted for Precision's 1906-1928 shade, and applied it with an airbrush. The black bits were then brush painted with Lifecolor "weathered black" which dries quickly and is a very matt, almost dark grey shade. I've still to give the tender a good going over. There are a few things I'd do differently if I was building another one. My rivets are rubbish - must try harder - and the boiler bands are a bit on the heavy side, albeit matching the ones on the Airfix firebox. A job I might get around to sometime is moving the cranks in-board a bit as they don't need as much clearance as they've got here. However, I'd be loathe to alter the quartering so that might be a job that waits until there's some other reason to take apart the chassis - hopefully not for a while! Of course I would like a curved-frame Bulldog but I have to be realistic and say that I'm already at capacity with GWR engines - not that there aren't a few more in the kitbuilding queue, including such lovelies as a County Tank, 2021 class, Armstrong goods, a De Glehn compound and a few others. Better get cracking!
    3 points
  3. This is a follow up thread to my original post on the construction of a Ratio Bogie 'B' van. The original can be found here: After a brief hiatus in modelling activity I have returned to this project. We left off with me having solved the ride height problem. Next came the fiddly etches. There are separate etches for every door hinge. The added value they bring is not that obvious and a moulding integral to the side would have probably given superior results. However the etches do add the satisfaction value when they are completed. Other etches for the chalkboards are also included. I use superglue to attach all of these items these items. I place a small puddle of glue from which I can pick up a tiny drop on a cocktail stick to apply to the etch or the surface onto which the etch will be placed. Sadly, I neglected to photograph the next steps. These included handles for the doors and grab rails for the guard's doors and the ends of the vehicle. The above picture shows the remaining etches. the the grab rails at the ends are folded to shape an two holes drilled to secure in place. What I think is the buiders plate and the lamp irons were next. The doors have locking handles, small grab handles and T handles. A lesson on egg sucking here; NEVER work with small etches in a room with deep pile carpet!! I lost one of the door hinges which remains in the mythical land all lost items seem to go to. Only one side of the vehicle has T handles as frankly they drove me to distraction and the enjoyment levels fell away entirely. I was also still a bit sulky about the missing door hinge and just couldn't focus! A replacement using plastikard was added, with weathering planned to obscure the fact it has no rivets. Now onto painting. Initially I planned to have a very heavily weathered BR)SR) green livery. However, I decided the vehicle, although plausibly being still in green livery in 1970, would look little out of place. I also already had Rail blue paint!! Every picture I can find of the real thing are of heavily weathered vehicles of which the livery is unclear. So I must confess I am using the Graham farish N guage model as my livery reference. The body and solebar is sprayed using Railmatch BR Blue including the buffer shanks. The roof is Railmatch roof blue/grey. The underframes, vac and air pipes, and buffer heads are hand painted using thinned Humbrol black 33. I am now waiting on a delivery of Window bar etches from Roxey Mouldings to place behind the glazing (yet to do). Transfers will follow.
    3 points
  4. It was inevitable that I would also need a stone built Engine Shed to match what has been completed so far...... I should mention that I used the Invertrain Models Abbotsbury kit as a base model. The kit as supplied will not make up into the final assembly described here. I used the same method to begin by re-engraving the resin moulded stonework into a more pleasing appearance and used some reference material to make a more convincing looking GWR structure from photos of the original shed. Bearing in mind the original shed was taken out of service not long after it was built and had the roof windows and doors removed. It was therefore a dilapidated shell in the 1930`s and no one knows so far what the roof style looked like back then. I used Slaters stone moulded plasticard to add some rudimentary detailing on the inside walls and I decided to remake the shed doors, sill and hinges from scratch. Careful attention in squaring up the sides and end mouldings before final assembly was required. And I re-sized the overall roof and vent to give a more finer look which was made up into a separate stand alone unit to aid painting and interior detailing later on. Much thought and use of the trusty Milliput has been essential in changing the stone work to hide the corner joints and making the windows more prototypical. The guttering parts of the kit and the external chimney stack were replaced with scratch built parts. some of the roof vent parts were used but have been suitably re-sized to suit the new roof shape. A coat of Halford`s Acrylic Primer hides a multitude of sins....... To be continued..............................................................
    2 points
  5. I've been finalising a batch of horse-drawn vehicles for Farthing. First one done is a light one-horse dray – or trolley, as the GWR called them. It's of a type that some GWR drawings refer to as the “Birmingham pattern”. There was a variety of designs of this type from the 1890s onwards, but the main distinguishing feature was the front-mounted protective tarp, and a carter’s box seat beneath it. The name shouldn't be taken too literally. Photos and drawings show that they were widely distributed around the system, including at e.g. Slough and Ilfracombe. I’ve previously scratchbuilt another Birmingham pattern vehicle, but that took ages so this time I decided to modify a generic Dart Castings kit (ref L45). I found a drawing in 'GWR Horsepower' which is a reasonable fit, give or take a mm here and there. The following photos show the main steps. I initially fitted bolections to the sides, but later dispensed with them (see below). Probably shouldn't have. The carter was composed of a Langley body and head from the Andrew Stadden range. The horse is from Dart Castings. The subtle colouring of our equine friends is hard to capture, I find. Here I tried dry brushing lighter colours on a dark base, i.e. white from below and light brown from above. Works OK in close-up, but once on the layout you can’t really tell the difference! The tarp on these vehicles could be pulled back and draped over the load in case of rain. I folded it from a spare Smiths tarp, cut to size. A central box seat was made for the carter. It's a bit lower than it should be, to accommodate his short legs. Lettering is always a problem for company vehicles. I first used coach lettering off the HMRS sheet as per my earlier model of this type, but wasn’t happy with the result - and the font isn’t right anyway. After much back and forth I had a "modeller's fit", ripped off the bolections, and fitted a simple printed side. It’s not ideal, next time I’ll make my own transfers. Fortunately, photos show much variety in lettering style in the 1900s. The fine chain is from Cambrian, great stuff and still available from H&A Models. The new trolley posed next to my earlier model on the left, which shews a different type of headboard (and no box for the driver, must get roundtuit). The scratchbuilt one has more character I think – but the kitbashed one was a lot quicker! I'll leave it there for now, these entries are becoming too long and unwieldy! More on the other vehicles shortly.
    1 point
  6. A quick update I start with a quote of Pablo Picasso: “I always do things that I cannot do to learn how I have to do it” I have finished the front of my Georgian building. I used Marshalswick House from Petite Properties as a base. I used again textures from Scalescenes printed on a textures Hahnemühle photo paper. (Un)fortunately something went wrong when I tried to give the building some weathering the first time. Here it is where I remembered the quote of Picasso. I knew that the printed textures where water resistant. So, to correct the damage I painted the building using diluted Vallejo paint. The result was satisfying. After the paint was dry I used pastels to weather the building to give it an old appearance. The building will be placed in Church Street when finished, as an office for an insurance agency. As always comments and suggestions are much appreciated ​Job
    1 point
  7. Not a lot to report on 26043...its making a few funny noises but nothing really of interest since the last update, things might get a little more interesting towards the winter when we start taking roof panels off.... In the meantime..... I took a help for request from the Llangollen diesel boys, owners of 26010.... 26010 was in a sport of bother in that it had damaged a commutator on the traction motor. long and short of it deal arranged for 26010 to visit Toddington to have this sorted out and the chance for a bit of nostalgic thrash for a pair of 26s in there 60th year. 26010 arriving at todd, sporting a fantastic "economy green" paint job, but she's hiding some very dark secrets... 26043 sat in the rain at broadway with the last departure of the day so 26010 has suffered a partial collapse of the commutator bearing in traction motor number 2, the original job was to get one of 26043s "spare" traction motors overhauled shoe horn it in to 26010, and the rest is history...... so whats the plan then....firstly we need to get the traction motor overhauled..... if we jump back in time to the dark days of a number of years ago we see errant traction motor no2 being extracted from 26043 in the very same car park as the one which 26010 is being unloaded, 3 months prior 26043 decided that it didn't like traction motors no2 and no3 and flashed them both over. in the case of these 2 motors it was an interpole failure, which meant a winding failed in one of the interpole coils and those nasty volts got their wish and got to earth, blowing a 3cm hole in the interpole in the process. Principally this is caused by a break down in the varnish insulation, mostly due to age or possibly moisture contamination.....26043 was withdrawn after a power earth fault while on snowplough duties....so you can assume moisture had a big part to play. The motor itself is quite easy to extract, in fact in a rainy car park yours truly (pictured with my back nearest facing the camera. and a number of other fellow workers extracted 3 motors in less than 24 hours (we had to send a bogie away for a tyre turn and due to the depot crane limit it couldn't be more than 10 tons, all successful many years of thrash right up to the present day.... those 2 motors went into storage....until 3 months ago they were then sent along with a suitcase full of money to a specialist contractor to be overhauled although you cant really see from the photo inside that motor is black filthy and full of "soot" externally its covered in grime and oil after last being overhauled in 1986! So as I said a lot of money and a specialist contractor and you get this..... yes that's the very same motor you saw being extracted earlier, 47105 basks in the background having a very extensive overhaul. ok looks shiny but its the inside that counts right? Here you see all of the brush gear overhauled the coils removed and re-taped, the armature baked and varnished and the commutator turned on a lathe and undercut, and new brushes fitted.....the brushes alone are £1200 Ok great all good to go get it in 26010 and the Llangollen lads are good to go right..... sadly not as I said 26010 was hiding some dark secrets.... 26010 inside the shed at Toddington over an internal pit for inspection with 26043 for company (the first time a pair have been together for quite a few years) When 26010 was delivered as I was the responsible person for her It was myself that gingerly shunted her into the yard with our trusty 04 shunter, whilst moving her I could hear a deep rumbling sound coming from axle 4.....if I heard it from axle 2 I wouldn't have been bothered as axle 2 was the motor due to replacement..... A quick chat with the owners who said they heard the same noise and thought it some incorrectly fitted brushes which had been fitted the day before.... as such I decided to put 26010 over a pit the following weekend and have a look to see if this was the issue..... sadly....it wasn't.... What you see here is another case of the bearing collapsing on the commutator side of the motor if you look carefully the first picture you see the right hand side of the brush box clear the commutator but as you advance to the left that gap is slowly being taken up and eventually it strikes the commutator on the far left causing serious damage to the commutator and possibly writing it off. Note also how dirty and black everything is compared to the refurbished motor. Close ups of the offending brush box which has caused all of the damage, the brush box is still fully serviceable and only needs minor work to No1 brush cavity to be serviceable again. after inspection I recommended to the owners that all 3 remaining motors would best be overhauled, and in a flash the repair bill for the owners went north of 22k! So after expecting to only have to replace 1 motor....we are now removing and overhauling all 4! None of us are being paid for this work, and by working together 26043 is left with an overhauled spare traction motor and 26010 is restored to working order after so far 12 months out of traffic, after repairs and period of running at the GWR, she will return home to wales, and hopefully after all this work run for many more years to come!
    1 point
  8. I have to make some change of plans. So, I have to skip my third IKEA challenge. A couple of years ago my wife made a serious fall. Now she is diagnosed with an acquired brain injury (ABI). This means we have to make some adaptions in our home. One of the things she wants to change is removing smaller things that we have to keep clean by dusting, including the small diorama’s that are standing on a cabinet in our living room. We have already found a solution that was fine for both of us. But more about that in a later entry. For my third Ikea challenge I had designed a coal delivery scene. On the website of John Day models, I saw a nice coal lorry. But I like Austin models and he has also an Austin K8 flatbed lorry. I asked him if it could be used as a coal lorry. I included a photo from internet with my request. Then he offered me to make an Austin K8 coal lorry. So, for the first time in my modelling career I built a white metal car kit. I have to thank Daryle Toney for his, very helpful, support. As you know I like to create little scenes. To create the scene a used a scenic set from the John Day range: RDS 2 Coalmen and coal load. I placed the scene in a diorama I built in the past. I hope you like the final result. I have enjoyed building it. As usual suggestions and comment are welcome. Greetings, Job
    1 point
  9. This challenge was more challenging than the first one. The box is about 18 cm wide, 7 cm deep and 12,5 cm high. I have a nice collection of cars that deserve to be put in a diorama. In a small box like this you can not create a scene with pavement, some road and a background model. So, I spent a lot of time drawing several (not) possible diorama plans. Using several materials and prints. The picture above is made when I finally found a solution. A small garage scene with a car, some pumps and figures. I used my usual method for designing. I diverse the ground in thirds and the backscene will be placed almost diagonal. I will use the garage from Scalescenes, a backyard building from a Scalescenes corner shop, used as the garage office, and the Scalescenes Workshop. Also, some figures from Dart Castings and pumps from 3DK models. First step was to design the background. I used a grey sky and tried out different options for a background building. Finally, I decided to use a picture of the low relief factory from Scalescenes. I resized it to a useful background factory. Now it is time to put see what kind of ground texture I want to use. There are several options. After the try outs the choice was made: a texture from 3DK will do the job. I will add the base after I have finished all the buildings. Because I want to use blue Morris BMC car and the diorama is so small, I have made some thoughts about the colour for the garage. I would like to put the attention to the details on the for ground of the diorama. I saw in some pictures that a garage with painted white bricks was an option. In stead of using paint to give the brown brick texture a white colour I used the painted white brick texture from Scalescenes. For detailing the garage, I searched for signs on the internet. The garage door is also a texture from internet made to size. After I had I had finished the garage I filled in the small gap at the left side. This is just a suggestion for a building. Now I had to build the front with two petrol pumps. I had a model from Scalelink but missed the right colours to create a SHELL pump. I had some pumps from 3DK models which could be used. I also bought some petrol pumps from Kingsway models. I also found some nice textures on internet. With these components I found the solution. The Kingsway pumps have a layered approach. I used this method to create my Shell petrol pumps. I used textures from internet for the front and the sign, for the sides the red pars of the 3DK pumps and some black wire for the hose. The Morris pickup van for some semi-gloss varnish from Vallejo, some weathering with Agrax Earthshade from Citadel for the canopy and some rubber tyre from AK paints for the tyres. The only difference with the plan I made that I left the figures away. Focus is now on the Morris BMC pick-up. This IKEA box challenge is now finished. I can start with the next and last one. I hope you liked this one. Thanks for reading and as usual critics and suggestions are welcome. I’m never too old to learn. Kind Regards, Job
    1 point
  10. I have finally finished my diorama of Station Road I have added a Reliant van. The van got some weathering for a better appearance. I used paint from several model paint suppliers. This time I uploaded a picture of the diorama with the visual underground. Then I saw that a piece of brickwork of a chimney was lose. I repaired that immediately. I also took a picture of the diorama with my British Railway delivery van. I will use these pictures for my delivery story of Arthur Page. Because this diorama is for my grand daughter it becomes a different finish. With a friend of mine, who is a picture frame maker, we made a wooden frame for the diorama. It will also have a glass cover. I made the picture without that. I hope you like the result. Kind regards, Job
    1 point
  11. I have finished the roof. I have used a roof texture from Scalescenes printed on 100 gsm Rice paper from Hahnemühle. You can still see on the picture some white lines. I have already coloured them in with a dark grey pastel. Weathering is done using a dark slate pigment from Vallejo. Northall has 'real living' persons. Here is the story behind the diorama: "Margaret Gates is looking through the window of the pet shop. She wanted to buy some Spratt biscuits for her dog, but th e lovely rabbits took her attention. Margaret lives in Caroline Street not far from the shops on Station Road." I have added a picture from her with her dog Ponto talking to her neighbour Mr. Page. Although the buildings are now finished I still must finish the diorama. I want to put a van in the street, that could be used by the owner of the pet shop. Most cars I buy are to glossy to use them straight from the box. Comments and suggestions are welcome. ​Kind regards, Job
    1 point
  12. I have finished the gent’s hair saloon. I have used textures from Scalescenes. The shop signs I designed using Publisher with an example I found on Internet. I save the result as JPEG file and with the photo program in Windows 10 I cut the designed sign out. I copy past the cut-out picture to Word and resize it to make it fit. The Brylcreem sign for the shop I found on Internet and resized it to fit in the window. You can see Leonard, the barber, standing in his shop. Today’s costumer is Albert Miller, the pub occupier of the Great Eastern Pub in Bridge Street. I used some Preisser figures to create the scene. I also added a barber pole next to the door. I have put the shops in the street. I must do some additional weathering. The roof is also waiting to be finished. ​As always comments and suggestions are welcome. ​Regards, ​Job
    1 point
  13. Station Road Part one I started a new project. Another street-scene with three shops using three kits of Petite Properties “Low relief (front) no. 12 Station Road; 1:76th. I will use textures from Scalescenes, Smart Models (just the curtains) and signs and textures from internet. The name-signs I create using Publisher. The shops are situated on Station Road in Northall, just around the corner of the Station Inn on Church Street. Opposite are some shops under railway arches. The first shop I have finished is the Tobacco shop of Emily Robbins. The shop has a shop window display made from pictures I found on internet. I gave the shop also an interior, although this will not be really visible. ​interior. The shop. The roof is just for the picture. Final weathering will be done when all shops are finished. The white piece on the frontdoor is just a small piece of paper, which I already removed. Comments and advice are as usual welcome. Kind regards and happy modelling Job
    1 point
  14. I have finished my Church Street diorama. Another street in my fictive town of Northall. I started to create a base. The base is build up with 3cm high card strips on a MDF base. First, I finished the Assurance Agency. I used textures from several Scalescenes kits. To finish my diorama, I had to add some pavement in front of the Assurance office. There were also some minor gaps, between the building and the street, I had to fill in. I used some Woodland scenic earth to fill it and gave it some colour with olive green pastel. I also added some grass from Mini Natur against the wall to the back yard and on the corner of the shop. Finally, I placed my British Railway van in front of the pub. This van I will use on all my diorama’s and can easily be replaced by another car. It is Western based and fits in the right area. Using the van in every layout will give the illusion of a delivery route for the van. For the picture, with just the diorama, I was inspirited by the website of Petite Properties. I think this can be improved by learning how to use my photo program better. The other two pictures give a street view of Church Street. One is the original picture I made, the other one is photoshopped to create a late 1950’s look. original picture late 1950's look Any suggestion or comments are welcome. ​Kind regards, Job
    1 point
  15. The starting point Now I have finished the pub. I added the roof using the slate roof textures from Scalescenes. They are printed on 100 gsm Rice Paper from Hahnemühle. This paper has a fine nice texture. Chimneys are from the kit of Petite Properties. They have the brick paper I used for the pub. Roof flashing is from Scalescenes. The chimney pots from Dart Castings, painted using Vallejo and AK modelling paints. I also added a small yard entrance at the right side of the pub. And of course, the Pub has its own history: The pub, is geographically the nearest to The Great Eastern in Bridge Street. The Station was first recorded in 1853 in Kelly’s Directory. The pub had several licensees. Now (1959) the pub is owned by Billy Kelly, who refurbished The Station and opened it with Elizabeth Turner as licensee, featuring local musical talents as variety. Sadly, lack of experience meant that it struggled financially and its future looks not good. The diorama is not yet finished. I must build a next building on the right side of the pub. I will keep you informed about the progress of that one. Any suggestion or comments are welcome. Regards, Job
    1 point
  16. The story My regular readers know that I like to create a background story for my diorama’s. I mostly do this before I start building and sometimes when I suggestion comes along in the comments of my blog entries, for instance adding a poster on the brick wall. G.W. Barlow & Son Ltd / Pawnbrokers & Jewellers No. 14 Queens Street - Closed shop The shop first opened in Northall as a jewellers and pawnbrokers in 1900. The shop was from the beginning situated on Queen Street and owned by Mr A Gardner. The shop, including the original shop front, is moved to No 136 High Street in 1959, due the development plans of the Northall Council. George William Barlow purchased the business in 1945 and was joined by his son Harold in 1946 on his return from service in the army during the Second World War. The shop front is largely original and as it would have looked in 1900. G.W. Barlow & Son Ltd is a truly individual family run business offering a wide range of more individual pieces with a highly professional and very personal service. X-ray screening health poster Early discovery means quicker recovery’ states this poster. It was drawn by artist T. R. Williams. Advertising posters such as this promoted mobile X-ray screening programmes to detect pulmonary tuberculosis in large groups of people.. Mobile X-ray services played a large role in public health campaigns against tuberculosis in the 1940s and 1950s. Mobile X-ray services were very successful. They were phased out in the UK in the 1960s. But I read that modern mobile X-ray units are introduced again in London. Laundry Service No.15 Queens Street The first business that was situated here was the King’s Arms The King’s Arms was possibly the Great Kings Arms mentioned in 1792 and recorded as The Kings Head in 1845. The pub closed in 1893/4. By 1913 the property was used as a clothiers and in 1928 as a greengrocers. In 1947 it became a laundry. Herbert Sing Lee started a laundry shop here in 1947. He lives above the laundry shop. Sing Lee employs two people: Lee Doon, a nephew from Liverpool, who works for Sing Lee for just five weeks, and a local woman called Lily Scott. Herbert Sing Lee is still looking for a new property to continue his business. No. 16 Queens Street Closed shop: A. Leach & Co – Ironmongers Limited By 1899 Albert Leach & Co ran their ironmongers business from number 16, to be succeeded by Harry Leach in 1901 ‘Leach & Co, ironmongers’ in a 1907 trade directory. Thomas Leach, becomes the director of the company according to the trade directory in 1954: A. Leach & Co Ironmongers Ltd. ‘No 16 Queen Street Northall (phone no.) NORthall 3262’. 1959 the same company was trading as A. Leach & Co (Northall) Ltd., Engineers Stores & Ironmongers; No.10 London Road using the same phone no. Black and white Most of the pictures I find from the late 1950’s or early 1960’s are in black and white. So I thought it would be a good idea to create also a black and white photograph for my story telling. Picture by John Lovell Redevelopment After redevelopment of the area a new office building, will house the offices of the Northall Housing Association. As usual comments, information or suggestions are welcome. Kind regards, Job
    1 point
  17. For this project I used a reference picture with a row of derelict shops. I never follow the picture to build a copy. The picture is the base to create the scene. Every part of the building will get another appearance. In this way even a small scene can look interesting. For this building I searched carefully the colours to follow my colour scheme. To refresh your mind, I have put the colour scheme below. For the choice of the textures I used the scheme as a reference. Most textures are from the High Street shopfronts from Scalescenes. The brick covering of the shopfront is aged brown brick from Scalescenes and for the garden wall I also used the brown garden wall textures from Scalescenes. The grey plywood textures are from CG textures, made to size and the shop sign is made using the RGB colours that fit the colour scheme. The picture gives the first impression of the building. I still have to add the roof and do some weathering. The weathering and finishing of the scene will be done when I have finished the complete building. Any suggestion or comments are welcome. Regards, Job
    1 point
  18. I have started my new vignette. A vignette is smaller than a diorama, with the focus on the main subject. I my case this will be a mechanical horse for my story telling and a Morris Oxford III for the finished vignette. I’m going to try out some a new weathering approach for my diecast models. But more about that in a later blog entry. For my vignette a used one of the buildings from the High Street shop fronts from Scalescenes. As usual I started with the road and the footway. This vignette is a try out to get the proper size using the golden rule. One thing I didn’t realize is that for situating the road vehicle the size of the road and the footway is defining the size. The building can be placed outside the vignette as the edge of the micro layout. In the picture an overview of the vignette. The vignette measures 21,5 x 10 cm for the road and the footway. The road surface is from Scalescenes, the footway from Model Railway Scenery. The colour of the footway of Scalescenes didn’t fit in my colour scheme. The colours of the inside of the building won’t be visible when the building is finished. The frame of the building is not yet finished completely. On the left side of the building I have to create a part of a yard or garden wall, maybe with a gate. Any suggestion or comments are welcome. Regards, Job
    1 point
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