Station building begins

Today I thought it worth making a start on the next project, that being the Station building. There is still a little to be done on the Telegraph & Post Office, unfortunately I'm waiting on some parts to arrive in the mail before I can paint and weather it and call it done.
The Station is essentially three buildings linked by covered walkways, so I've decided to build it in three separate parts. The centre is the main building, the second with the lamp room and walkway, and the third the Gents toilet and walkway. I spent a little time with the scanner, and changing the percentage change from the scan, to a scale sized plan. A little bit of time, and some calculations, and a scale sized plan is the result.

The local hobby store closed near me the other week, so I had to go back to another one I've refused to go to as the stock levels are so poor, and the staff, ordinary at best. How they survive and the local with fantastic prices, service and stock levels failed, I've no idea. To my surprise .040" styrene was not available. I did pickup a car siding sheet that will do the same. I was informed tha stock levels were a result of covid19, we shall see.

I began by drawing up all the walls in the elevation on one sheet. The beautiful part of the siding is that it makes it easy to count boards and make all of them the same height, across all the elevations.
I must admit there's been a little head scratching when taking into account the thickness of the siding, and then adjusting the width of the elevations required.

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Then there's the addition of the roof profile to allow for when cutting the elevations out. This is all pretty straight forward stuff, but I think if I'd had a little more in the way of suggestions of how lto build a styrene building from scratch I would have saved plenty of time, bandaids, and extra sheets of styrene purchased. So if there happens to be someone out there who's not giving this scratchbuilding thing a crack, please, leave me a message and let me know what you'd like to build.

The windows have been cut, and trial fitted. The lower part to this photo shows the trackside elevation sheet, that will be needed soon. It measured and fitted beside another roofline cutout from a previous project.

The floor has now been cut out in some fancy scribed siding, and you can see the busy street side elevation, to the plain flat rail side elevation. The central room will have internal walls to help keep the model square and to provide a solid base for the roof. This building will be a little more complex than the post office, however the principals are the same, and it can be broken down into smaller tasks that all fit together. This has quickly become the method I return to, as I find it easier to complete steps or mini projects to help keep moving things forward.

That may do for now, hopefully there will be some modelling progress this week. I've a few other things on the go at the moment. There's the painting of some figures, I've been inspired by a recent article in the 'Australian Journal of Australian Modelling', well worth supporting this Australian
manufactured magazine, for the modeller that wants to learn/do more. Then there's the progress on the backboards, maybe a photo here.

So you can see, things are moving forward, a couple of projects at a time.
Have a great week,
Hug those who matter,
Ooroo!
Geoff.