Not much time for railway modelling lately, so this week it's a throwback to the one building project that really kickstarted me back into the hobby after so long: A 'light railway style' station building kit-bash as described in Chris Ford's 'Modelling Narrow Gauge Railways in Small Spaces'.
The main body of the building utilises the Wills Corrugated Iron Chapel kit with windows replaced, extra doorways added and some additional bargeboards and finial. Deviating from the book I went and added a platform canopy from offcuts of Wills Corrugated Iron sheets, Ratio Valancing and 60thou square strip for the legs.
And just to prove that it doesn't always go right on the first try, here is the first attempt at the canopy using parts from the spares box, in this case a Dapol/Airfix station booking hall canopy and legs from a Ratio carriage shed kit:
I do like this building, but it's certainly one that's on the 'have another go' list. Maybe someday I might finally get round to building the iron chapel as intended too!
Click HERE for a link to Chris's blog. Well worth a read!
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