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Right, doors back on and the bottom rows of bricks finished. I got the 45 degree angle using a matt cutter, but if you can get matt card off-cuts, some of them must be already cut at 45 degrees. I've also weathered the card with those felt-tip watercolour brushes to tone down the edges. Next will be a roof, but I think that'll probably have to wait until after the weekend.

Good news, I was worried that the doorway was also too big, which would have been a disaster, but I've managed to fettle the door so that I have a larger door frame and window. Also, to remove the doors themselves from the model I cut the middle out of each, slowly tugged at what was left and the whole lot has come away pretty cleanly! All I need to do is cut new doors and slot them in from the bottom

Thanks a lot, I suddenly got that sinking feeling. Re: sauna, a bit of pine lining around the walls, a lit fire and a bucket of water. Mind you, back in the '60s it'd be a bit 'foreign'! This was when my grandad, a farmer, thought Chinese food was suspect (right up intil he tried it, then he was known to eat leftovers for breakfast). Granary building eh? Running a B&B I have a LOT of cornflake packets! Oo, and a photo I dug out of a drawer clearly shows a T shape stovepipe chimney just back from the ridge, so I'll be able to finish the building

Ouch, just put it on the layout and the doors are far too tall! Here am I looking at brick courses and I'm messing up a major element. This means that I'll have to cut the top of the door away and increase the size of the window above the door. This should reduce the door height by about 15-18". Fingers crossed.

Well, I've finished the main walls, decorated the inside and put in some wooden benches. The first photo shows the waiting room from the back. The benches are a combination of scale lumber and lollypop sticks. The paper coming away on the left was glued to the back wall when the wall was added, and the middle wall keeps the whole back straight. It appears that a passenger needs the toilet! The bottom photo shows the brickwork is done. Not fantastic, but I know I did my best with it. I think if I was to do it again I would cut the top horizontal bit separately from the arches to make sure it was dead straight - I might even use plasticard. That said, I'm pretty pleased with how I got on. Tomorrow, I'll be adding in the blue/black brickwork at the bottom of the walls (I can't think of the word, I know it's not buttresses, well I don't think it is), then work starts on the roof There's a fireplace to go in there as I think I have evidence of a stove, but I can't tell from the photos what the flue looks like - it's not a brick chimney, I know that! I don't think I've uploaded this photo before, it shows what I'm aiming for (at least before it was 'modernised') And this one shows that I really have to study these photos. The blue bricks at the front of the waiting room are one brick thick, but the bricks at the back are two bricks thick, and are flush with the ends. One to remember tomorrow! The last photo also shows some of the GNR railings that have lasted through the years!

I've no idea Lee, but that's a good looking rectangle at the end of your first sentence. Very sharp corners!

Haha, the easy stuff! Here's Lee's model, http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/74336-waiting-room-in-forex/ . It's been interesting doing our models at the same time as, although they both use the same plans, we have used completely different materials and methods!

That's true, and while I'm not the copyright police, I'm assuming that the seller has the right to sell prints of it.

Onwards and upwards. I've now managed to put in the windows, floor and three of the walls. The windows are my tried and trusted method, i.e. getting a printer to cut them out for me. The walls are a lamination of two sheets of matt card. I used the 3M spray mount glue. As was mentioned in a different thread, if you are laminating thin card with this the results can be bendy, but using two sheets of 1.3mm matt card the whole thing is pretty stiff. You just have to remember to spray outside as wou really don't want to inhale what is effectively atomised rubbery glue! Windows and doors cut and ready to delaminate from the backer. Windows and door in place (although I seem to have lost one gah!) The arches above the openings look like they are too proud, but there will be a stepping effect that will sort that out. Loads still to do, but it's starting to look the part - and, it's looking reasonably flush to the ground!! My one thought about the prototype is that only one end of the building has a window, and it doesn't face where the trains are coming from so that the passengers can see that a train is coming around the corner, it faces the train you just missed! Yellerbelly humour maybe

So I was in a different reading room on the Internet when I saw a photo of a brass painted loco. I immediately thought of the Grantham Ghost Train... http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=266047&nseq=594 Ok, they call it gold, but it's not you know...

So I'm sat in the coffee house near the railway tracks and a passenger train comes through. I don't know, you wait all summer for one and it shows up when you don't have a camera! We actually get two passenger trains through every year, but they rarely stop. I think they are the Royal Canadian Pacific as it looked like this: http://www.royalcanadianpacific.com/index2.html If you fancy a ticket, it'll set you back $8,200!!

Thanks Mister, it was great to see a fellow modeller - there aren't many of us out here in the sticks With regards to the Brickhouse, all I can say is that Jägerbombs are not big or clever! So a small step forward on the waiting room. I've kind of cut the windows out of the brickpaper that is firmly glued to the card, and used Chubber's method for sharp corners.Or at least had a go. You can see that the window openings are frowning. Harking back to my concerns about the arches, I decided to make sure the verticals were cut, but there was as much card left as possible on the arches. This allows me to wrap the brick paper around the sides of the doors and know where I'm going to position the paper with the arches on. Then once the arches are cut out and glued to the backing, I'll be able to actually cut the arch out. If I'd fully thought ahead, the top layer would be the same. Then on the underside of each arch I'll have a go at gluing the arch brick bottom. The paper is longer than it needs to be because I'll be wrapping it around the ends of the waiting room. I hope that this makes sense. The poor camera phone photo doesn't help

The Scalescenes brick paper is password protected (for good reason) but I need a colour that is slightly less dark and more orange than the standard dark brown bricks, so I've been messing about with the colour adjustments in the printer settings dialogue box to see if I can get a colour that more closely matches the local brick around Wainfleet. It was a bit trial and error, but it only took a couple of sheets, and now I've something a lot more local. (I've just watched League of Gentlemen on Netflix as I missed it first time around - my word!) Looking ahead, I think the arches are definitely going to be the most difficult bit of the whole build. I really want to avoid just sticking them on top of the brick paper. I've colour-matched and printed three copies of them just in case I don't get it right first time. What!

The other thing that I've done in preparation is manipulate the photos that I took of the waiting room the last time that I was in England to see if I could use them as wallpaper instead of using Scalescenes. While it's an interesting idea that I'm sure will work on the station building proper, the fact that there are a number of layers, and the fact that I'd have to be very accurate indeed with the cuttings means I've decided to use Scalescenes after all for the main brick, and the photos for the arches. I'll be using the watercolour pen-brush again that I used on the signal box to weather the brickwork - it worked well enough before. The other thing that the photo below does is keep me on the straight and narrow and ensure that I don't miss any of the "twiddly bits". One thing that will be interesting is that there is a single middle layer of brick between the outer and inner at the top, and two below the end of each window arch! Why would you do that? :-/ Only joking! The image above shows the two ends tacked onto the front. This mimics the drawing that I did some time ago on post #127 A comparison with the signal box using Scalescenes and weathering (sorry about the repeat showing for this photo). I know, I know, no posts in yonks and suddenly there are three in one day! G'night.

Well, that's everything cut out I'm not going to be winning prizes for speed, nor accuracy of intent. I forgot just how thick the foamboard is, so I'm using matt card for everything except the floor now. The little notches at the top were b****rs! Edited to say: I've cut the sides and bottom of each window, but I haven't cut the curved portion. I'll do this after I've glued the two layers together to ensure that the arch has the same profile on both layers. Next, wallpapering with brick!

Inspired by Lee (Freebs) who is building a version of the waiting room in Wainfleet, I'm going to make a start on the original version. I'm ashamed to say this is almost two months after posting the intention to make a start! Anyway, post #127 gives the details of the waiting room along with the plan that I've just printed off here. My intention is to use a sandwich of two layers of thin foam card for the main walls - one with the windows, and one with the "fiddly stuff" (insert architectural words here), finally the blue bricks of the lower wall will be matt card used in picture framing - this is the same as that used on the preserved(!) signal box. The windows will be cut, as usual with the silhouette cutter, and to match the signal box, the roof will be Scalescenes. That said, I wish now I'd painted the signal box roof. Right, kitchen cleanup and I'll make a start.

Ah, thanks for that - I'm a bit out of the (Lincolnshire) loop.

It's code three though...

I think one of the most uncomfortable rides of my life was on one of those leaving that platform - standing room only, screaming kid and no buffet! Although that's just a dream away, where I am now we do have a passenger service, I think it comes through in June, and they don't like it if you get on the train here (a bit like Watford going south on the WCML). Also I've looked through my last few posts, it seems I have a fixation with small rocks, sorry about that! (looks good though! ) -- Edited to remove a para that could cause the thread to go wildly off-topic. --

Your layout is fantastic, with loads of atmoshpere, well done! I particularly like the grass effect. Your ballasting is sick and I'd be stoked if I can make mine as realistic.

Hi Freebs - would you believe I was watching them go round yesterday morning? It's been bugging me that I hadn't finished laying the track for a while now. It'll be a while before its all ballasted, I can promise you that! Little matter of that waiting room first. Hi Mick, thanks for that. It's great news for Wainfleet station! The boys in the signal box weren't too optimistic when I was there, oh, last September I think it was. Skegness was there too. It's shocking to think only 26 will be listed out of 10,000 at the peak. I hope the box gets a few coats of paint, and that they slap any leftover paint on the waiting room. Cheers Jason

Nasty soldering, but a much smoother transition. In the end I only had to dislodge ballast from a half dozen sleepers each side This got me an interesting conversation with the checkout at my supermarket. Yes, it's clear nail varnish. Good for stopping ladders in tights by all accounts. Also good for insulating Peco insulfrog turnouts when locos short out on them. Runway one - this will be the Canadian part of the layout, and is also the mainline for Wainfleet. The chassis is for the Deltic. Theakerr was telling me that there could be a problem with the Digitrax system and some Locsound decoders. If I can't get them to work together, the decoder may end up in the classifieds. A view across the room - not tidied up, and plenty of coffee! The good thing about the curtained cupboard is that I'll be able to go in there and take photos from the opposite side. I can categorically state that the AC4400 probably didn't make it into the Eastern Region in reality...

Tearing up the curve was nowhere near as bad as I'd feared. I had left a gap between the ends of the rails, so all I had to do was get a screwdriver to scrape away the ballast, use a file to "straighten up" the track to a good looking curve, then solder the result (though I'd have to say that I'm expecting the god of soldering to smite me for the crack-handed soldering I managed). Job done, and I no longer need to feel guilty looking at the nasty kink. The best news is that all of my locos go through the curve now without bouncing off the rails! Right, off for a jump in the river, back soon for another session later this afternoon. P.s. thanks for looking in, I promise to make it worth your while soon