BrushType4

David, did you get my email?

A 1/48th house.

Roof slates added and a bit of paint.

Not Railway related, but railway inspired. A 1/48th dolls house for my mum.

I've been passed full sized drawings of the western letters so I'm half way there. I may have to get this book on the Westerns though.

Railway nameplates anyone? Not quite the right amount of space at each end. I'll sort for the next one. Now to get on with the letters for the Western Nameplates I've been asked to do.

Thousands of slates and just shy of a hundred factory windows getting ready for a commission.

You're absolutely right. I've altered the roof slate sheet to do either 1.5 widths or cut down to suit the builder.

A few things on my workbench this morning that came off the laser yesterday evening.

I think the wheelbase or overall length had a typo. I'll get my drawings out as I made a start on a slab sided one of these. It's on the shelf of things to finish one day. Talking of which, where are you with the IZA's?

Ridge tiles added now.

I cut some slates on the cutter and my mum started to fix them to the roof. I'll create a ridge tile today to finish the top. I also put a bit of paint on to see how the corners looked.

All gone quiet on this thread, I was expecting my inbox to be over flowing with would be 7mm'ers wanting settrack kits! Guess there isn't a market after all.

If you are serious PM me and I'll put an pack together of what you need including laser cut base etc.

For version two I had a go a finger joint instead of a butt joint. I will try a mitre but I'm quite happy with this. The camera is harsh as the shadow one can see on the joint is not visible normally. I will glue together and paint up later.

What do you want in the kit and what would you be happy to pay?

Printed off the Chelmsford Goods Office building today. Needs a tweak or two before it's realised to the market. It can be built so the roof can lift off if required.

You may also need to take a file to the bottom to get the sole bars in nice a square. Parkside make great kits that usually fit together very well, so not sure if the mould is starting to show signs of ware.

You may wish to put some additional support across the Parkside. I use a spare bit of the spure. I do this as a heavy handed pick up can squeeze in the sides as the roof doesn't always hold at the top. I like the feel of a solid wagon too.

That's very nice work.

I need to practice painting the brickwork, but here is the arch with a wash of tinted filler. In the right hands, this would look quite good

I've been asked if I can do a traditional railway era warehouse so having had a look on the net I found one that I like the look of and whose features are mainly coloured brick and pattern. This is ideal for the laser cutter. This particular building lends itself quite well to be built in modular sections. The vertical joins can be hidden with drain pipe detail and the horizontal join should be near invisible. So that in mind I've drawn up the section to see how it looked. The brickwork is quite complicated and I'm not sure I've quite got all the course detail right. I'll print this out to see how it looks and adjust it. I won't be able to laser it until next week. For the 7mm version this will be a triple layer of 2mm MDF front face, 2mm MDF middle layer to hold window detail and lastly a third layer of 2mm MDF/ 2mm PLY for the building structure.

Some painted brickwork to give you an idea of how the finish can look.

I've can source many thicknesses of material and can cut anything up to 9mm MDF on 1200x2400 sheet. I can do bigger and thicker but PM first as I'll need to CNC it rather than laser.

Dodgy iPhone picture, but model and the actual I'm trying to emulate.