buildings

A bit of background for this thread, I have for a number of years been building a garden railway in 16mm to the foot scale, narrow gauge. It comprises six stages of construction, stages 1-3 have all the support structure in place, stages 1-2 have all the trackwork down, stage 3 should have had...

After a drink or two one Saturday evening, a friend confided that he was building a model railway. As one who is also careful about those to whom he discloses his interest - if at all - I could sense his apprehension. His overwhelming senses of relief and surprise were almost palatable when I...

One from the Furness and one from the L&Y. The Furness version is for my embryonic layout based on Coniston and has been on and off my workbench in various stages of construction for several years now. The real life box opened in 1897 with the base coming from a defunct box at Carnforth, and...

In a small homage to the late Bernard Wright's double page features in Model Railways, years before I came along, but much admired since, I took it into my head to wander around Southampton yesterday with my camera and have a think about the unconsidered elements of a particular scene...

[/ATTACH] I have been designing and laser cutting the three main station building for our clubs P4 model of Aylesbury. Each wall is made from two layers of 1.5mm Rowmark these are aligned using cocktail sticks through holes. The inner layer of each wall has larger apertures for the window...