Track crew hut

 

This little building, located near the lineside, is where the track crews store their tools and take their rest and lunch breaks.

 

The walls are Slater’s bricksheets glued onto foamboard.

 

Then the bricks are painted and the pointing added.

 

 

 

I have yet to install the interior and lighting to this building…

 

 

To be continued...

The return thicknesses of the walls around the window and door openings are covered with strips of printed bricks made from a scan of one of the walls of the building.

 

The window frames are from cut cardboard. The door is strips of real wood.

 

The roof of interlocking tiles is a plaster casting. A coat of red/orange paint is used as the basic colour.

 

The concrete lintels and the window sills are painted styrene.

Some tiles are painted in darker or lighter colours to give the effect of weathering.

 

The cement joints of the ridge tiles at the top of the roof are painted grey.

 

The gutters are from U section styrene.

 

The rainwater downpipes are heavy duty wire.

 

The chimney is styrene tubing.

Cambrésis style farm

 

I had been inspired to build mine by photographs and drawings of the type of farm to be found in the countryside around Cambrai.

 

Like the track crew hut, the walls are Slater’s bricksheets glued onto foamboard.

 

The bricks and the pointing are painted.

 

The quoins around the windows are made with air hardenning clay, and then painted with diluted paint.

 

The first floor is made of wood.

 

The roofs are plaster castings.

 

To be continued...

The walls have been weathered by drybrushing and diluted paint was used for the roofs.

 

Signs produced with a computer and printer are glued to the walls.

BOISLEUX-MARQUION-CAMBRAI RAILWAY

O scale  1/43.5

 Motive power

 Railcars

 Carriages

 The building of

the layout

 Buildings

The station building

 

I have taken my inspiration from the prototype at Boyelles with the difference that my model has only two doors : it is a small building.

 

The construction techniques are always the same.....