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Managed a couple of hours work on the building before going to work ...... roof fitted, end wall fitted, various bows in the walls straightened .... The building is 'low relief' in both planes .... that is to say that it is half depth and about one third or even one quarter in length .... just chopped at the board end.

Hello, Welcome to the story behind Twickenham MRC's 7mm layout - ADDISON ROAD. I originally started this thread in 2014, but I am updating this introduction in OCTOBER 2018 as we have just moved this thread from the 7mm scale specialist forum to this 'layout topics' section to, hopefully, attract a new audience who may have missed it before. The group building ADDISON ROAD are not all 7mm modellers at home (some model OO, some N and even HO), but they are all drawn to ADDISON ROAD because they just like the 'fit' of this project - an accurate reproduction of a real place, but one which can accommodate a wide range of stock. In fact, the group also extends geographically with 'country members' as far away as Chicago and Berlin. So come back to to 2014 and read through as we tell you the story of ADDISON ROAD......

After a full day's modelling we now have a weathered facia with all the windows 'done'.

Having spent 20 odd years fitting Kadees to British stock may I make one somewhat pedantic suggestion. Now please bear in mind that I am VERY, VERY fussy and I want my Kadees to work 100% of the time - NOT 99%!! In that context I would recommend keeping to the NEM fixing style of couplings and NOT mixing them with the traditional Kadees made for the American market. Of course they will work together but will not uncouple 100%. This means only having stock with NEM boxes or grouping stock into rakes with 18 or 19 Kadees on the ends. Of course people do mix the styles and are very happy with them but in extreme situations they do behave slightly differently so you will be better either using the NEM fitting or the traditional fitting without mixing.

Have moved on to building the first of 2.5 apartment blocks to be placed at the l/h end front as 'sight blockers' ... that's two full size buildings and a low relief one..... And, yes, the door will need to be taller!

Just looking though some photos of China ..... found these ones that inspired the building I have been working on ...... photographed earlier this year ....

Nearly finished .... just a bit more interior to do and maybe some more passers by on the pavement and some people queuing in the café and some more air conditioners and a light in the café ..... blah, blah, blah! Seriously, I'm about done with this building for the moment .... for the time being at least I have started work on another (different) kitbash of a more modern block of apartments.

Nearly there! Before I fit the 'finished' interior of the restaurant I thought I'd take a photo ...... may add some more details before I fit the ceiling but I need to move on and get the building finished .....

Six hours later and it now looks like this - the chicken coups have moved up from the flat 4 floors below to cover the distorted window ........... Then work on the interior of the café/restaurant .... about half done! The railfans are having a break from a hard day's gricing ....

Watch this space!

I have been working on this kitbash for almost exactly one month - sometimes up to 10 hours a day and had hoped to be able to finally say @it's finished today' , but this morning with 99.99% of work done and just adding the 'final' detail - disaster struck! Had it on my work bench but left it too near my work lamp!!

Another full day working on the tenements It seems that one of the chickens has got loose By the end of Tuesday the second building was nearly ready to join the first one ...... hopefully by Sunday!

OK, it's been a nice morning so I tried photography in the back garden. Regret cannot get the depth of field I want but here are my best efforts ... note the new edition of the woman checking her bag for keys in the entrance to the block And the best interior shot I could get ... Time to stop this superdetailing this first half and get back to building the framework of the second half of the building

After a full 9 hour modelling shift things have moved on..... Here is the second half of the final building sat alongside the first finished half ..... note the 'shop units' on the ground floor. Several will have the roller shutters left down to save me having to model an interior. Here is the one interior I've made so far ..... a typical Chinese 'workshop'.... sorry for the fuzzy photo ... I'll try again with a tripod later

This is where we are now .... about half way through the project ... roof and l/h walls fitted .... staircase and floors added .... only need to add interior detail into the 'shops' on the ground floor ...

Hi Al The floors (inc cracks) are paper sheets from Model Railway Scenery ... can be downloaded and printed off as many times as you like ...or ... I prefer buying pre-printed ones via their ebay site. Excellent quality and EXCELLENT service from a very nice man. More photos of the building tonight. Paul

This first tenement project is taking far tooooo long! Partly because I've decided to add some interior detail like landings and staircase and it's taking forever! Here is the 'work in progress' .....

In complete contrast to the local family orientated event in Hampton last week ............ this week TDMRC was at RMwebLIVE in Coventry. The theme of our stand was using new technology to build better layouts ......... this demo/talk was given by members of our ADDISON ROAD (7mm scale group) Here is our stand .... Group leader Peter giving a talk ....on how he built the ADDISON ROAD signal box The signal box in question ............... Some of the exclusive components we have had made for our project

Here's an update on the tenement after many hours working on the windows/doors

Rob If my comments offended you then I apologise - I was not aware of your situation. However, I will repeat that I am in awe of your ability with a computer. Moreover, I very much like your photos and would very much like a tutorial on how you produce them. Further, I would like to see more of your work, but I would prefer it in a dedicated thread. Perhaps my real gripe is anything that tends to take this (and other threads) off topic and I think that this thread is about the Hornby P2 - is it any good? Can I buy it yet? Can I improve it? Please keep posting your photos. Paul

I'm sooo glad that someone has finally said this. Let me say that I am in total awe of the very clever computer work involved and the photos are excellent, but for me it doesn't add anything to what I want to know about the model for me to decide if I am going to buy one or to modify/improve one if/when I have bought one. May I respectfully suggest a separate thread or sub-forum where all this photo-trickery could be indulged at length. Then for every new model there could be ONE photo on the main thread (like this one for the P2 ) with a link to another thread of similar if people want to see futher work.

A few hours later and we're here ................... the front of the building is now approx where it will be finally positioned.......

And in situ roughly where it will eventually go .... this is bits from two kits , I need another one to complete it ... it will be fully low relief when finished - not a flat ! No pun intended!!

This is a work in progress ............... I have spent nearly 4 hours just weathering this today .... a down - market communist era tenement ..... spent more time weathering it than assembling it! More over the next week or so as it develops .............

On September 7th 2014 TDMRC supported the 150th Anniversary celebrations at Hampton station .... Pride of place went to our new OO project TWICKENHAM JUNCTION - an accurate recreation of the old LSWR station at Twickenham as if it had lasted into the 1960's .......... We were also discussing prototype practice with a real railwayman on our 'Shunting Puzzle' layout ............... Whilst also entertaining the professional railwaymen of the future ...........