Surprisingly (Or not, looking back at it) none of the items I had planned for over the Christmas/New Years break were achieved, but that doesn't mean I haven't been working on other things...
I said there were plans for a new micro layout during 2024, and whilst I was going to dive straight in with baseboard construction over Christmas I decided to hang fire. Roughly 50% of the structures for the layout are already completed, making use of old projects that I really needed a home for, but I thought I'd play it safe and try get to a point where at least 80% of the structures were completed, given in the rough plan I have they all slot together to form a view block of sorts with not too much wiggle room between them.
And thus, a locomotive shed materialised.
Very much taking inspiration from the Talyllyn shed at Pendre, but shrunk down to Micro dimensions, using the measurements of the Talyllyn Gunpowder store in one of Chris Ford's books as a starting point. Other than those basic box dimensions it's really been a case of looking through a few books at different photos (Mainly from the 1930s) and adding on details that to me look right. The additional bargeboards hide a multitude of sins from trying to mitre the edges!
It's not meant to be a 100% accurate depiction by any means. I had intended to make it a little bit longer to fully accommodate a Bachmann Skarloey, but I followed the powder store dimensions a little too rigidly and had already fused the walls together before realising! At the same time, it's only when I'm writing this that I've realised I've glued the wall with the windows in place upside down. The shed will comfortably take a whole Kerr Stuart Tattoo though.
Just requires doors and exhaust vents to complete the main building process really.
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