Timber Tracks Tetbury Goods Shed in OO

[madharry]

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

[ReadingBob]

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.   

[ACL1504]

Mike,

I'll be following along also. OO scale in certainly different.

Tom

[madharry]

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

[GPdemayo]

Nice looking structure Mike.....I'll be following along. 

[restocarp]

What a great building.  That gable end window is very interesting, I never would have guessed that that was an original feature, but...

http://www.tetburyraillands.com/node/15
I too am looking forward to watching this come together.
Matt

[Janbouli]

Thanks for that Matt, I too thought it was something they added later.

[ACL1504]

Matt,

Welcome to the forum. Happy you have joined.

Tom

[S&S RR]

Great looking building - I'm looking forward to your build.

[gnatshop]

I'm hangin' in here, too!
Interesting build!!! 

[madharry]

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

[madharry]

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

[madharry]

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

[madharry]

Continuing......

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

[madharry]

Continuing....

The parts of the loading dock are glued together and then glued inside the building..........

Mike Carter