Here is the start of my new build - the Goods Shed (freight house) that still stands at Tetbury in Gloucestershire today. The kit is laser cut with the bricks engraved into the wood. The walls are made up by layering several pieces together.
Mike Carter
Hey Mike, thanks for sharing this one with us. This is something new, to me anyway, and should be a lot of fun to follow along with. :D
Mike,
I'll be following along also. OO scale in certainly different.
Tom ;D
Thanks Bob and Tom for following. The kit is a large one with a lot of detail.
Before I glue the walls together and make it more difficult to paint details here are the interior doors. I painted them the standard Great Western Railway colours of light and dark stone. The lazer cutting on the raised panels is pretty impressive.
To explain I am painting the building as it would have appeared between 1923-1948 and not as it is today.
Mike Carter
Nice looking structure Mike.....I'll be following along. 8)
What a great building. That gable end window is very interesting, I never would have guessed that that was an original feature, but...
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I too am looking forward to watching this come together.
Matt
Thanks for that Matt, I too thought it was something they added later.
Matt,
Welcome to the forum. Happy you have joined.
Tom ;D
Great looking building - I'm looking forward to your build.
I'm hangin' in here, too!
Interesting build!!! ;D ;D ;D
Thanks everyone for following. Yes the large gable windows are unusual. Timber Tracks makes five other GWR goods sheds and only one of the others has this feature. Incidentally this building is similar to the one that stood at Maidenhead, my home town, where my great grandfather was freight agent for the railway.
Continuing.............each wall has four layers as the brickwork is modelled on the inside of the building as well. here is the trackside inside wall to which I will glue the brick reinforcing piers in place - these mirror the piers on the outside of the building.
Mike
Continuing.........the inside of the building had its brickwork painted an off white. I have used a spray can to apply this to the inside walls.
Mike
Continuing..... I need to add the the black inner beam to the cart dock wall and the remaining piers to the walls. Next up I will glue all walls together to form the main building.
Mike
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I glued each half of the shed together. The walls interlock at the corner and the gable ends overlap the join to make it almost invisible. Once the halves were dry I joined the main walls together making sure they were square. The main building is fairly large being 7 inches by 10.5 inches. It will be even longer once the office is added.
Next up are the parts for the interior dock floor. I brushed some A&I over the floor and painted the four brick walls. The four spacers shown will not be seen.
Mike Carter
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The parts of the loading dock are glued together and then glued inside the building..........
Mike Carter
Sorry I forgot to post the picture of the elements of this kit - quite extensive - these are the remaining parts....
Mike
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Next to fit are the doors. I have already painted the doors themselves. In the pack are strips to represent the door sliding gear, hangers and rollers.
Mike
Continuing... Here are the doors added to the goods shed. The double doors for the street and showing one of the trackside doors.
Mike
Next up are the roof trusses. Each truss has a three steel reinforcing rods.
I need to drill each truss in turn with my Dremel drill and add the rods before positioning these on the brick piers. Here are the parts for this step....
Mike
I think this is a beautifully detailed kit. I intend using leds to illuminate the interior once it is on the layout.
Here are the trusses with the rods fitted. I used a small drill rather than the Dremel as they are very fragile and I did not want to break them.
Mike
Here are the trusses glued to the building. I have also added glazing to the insides of the windows before adding the trusses as I thought it would make it more difficult once they were affixed.
Eaves strips have been added to the sides as well as small strips of engraved brick strips to the infills on the main brick walls.
Next up the construction of the office...............
Mike Carter
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Here are the parts for the office.
The walls come in two parts. here are the windows and door together with the brick overlay which are glued together.
Having chosen the GWR colour scheme the painting of the doors is a little trying............
Mike
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I glued the walls together for the little office. There is included a floor which helps to square the walls. The brick overlays are slightly proud of the side walls to allow you to cut back the walls and gently scribe them to finish off the corners nicely.
Mike
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I painted the beams/spars in the main shed grimy black and added a little Inter-Action Enterprises Roll Top Desk & Chair for my goods shed foreman.
Mike
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I glued the office to the end of the main building.
Next up the office roof - these are the roof trusses and sarking pieces for the next step.
Mike
The desk and chair are absolutely great . And I love the asymmetric of the building. Would love to build a British layout , but first have to finish an American N-scale and HO layout, so maybe when I'm retired ;)
Thanks Jan I appreciate it.
Mike ;D
Mike,
Great looking build. Very well done. Thanks for taking the time to show us the build.
Tom ;D
Thanks Tom, updates coming later!
Mike ;D
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I have added the roof bracing for the office addition. Also added are the stairs to the office. Next I will paint the parts for the barge boards and the canopy valencing.
Mike
Continuing... I have started painting the brickwork and other details. Here is one of the gable ends painted off-white. The other picture shows some the detail - the arched bricks above the windows on GWR buildings were always blue engineering bricks.
Mike