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Another little building was taken down to the FBGR today, and the area of recently renewed decking is gradually becoming more populated. This time something new (for me) was a corrugated iron shed. This was made using aluminium from backing trays, corrugated and formed over a foamboard and plasicard...

There is some good stuff out there, and if you don’t despair at never being able to get any where near the quality of these, you might just get a little inspiration. Here is a couple more: http://www.boredpanda.com/realistic-miniature-rooms-museum-cinema-dan-ohlman-france/ http://www.modvid.com.au/h...

Yes markoteal, I could do that, and it would probably be best as a separate topic – next time I start something mainly foamboard perhaps, although the story of me filling up my scrap-bin until I have enough pieces that happen to fit together, and then slowly spilling paint over it may not suit every...

Yes Rik, and playing around with the different inserts can give you a few different finishes.

Don't start with a whole building, just do a bit of a wall to get the feel of the stuff, as here,
JOhn

Dear Rik

See page one

JOhn

The Goo I use to stick foamboard to foamboard and plasicard to foamboard is Wickes Solvent Cement, made for sticking together plastic RWPs – you have to ask for it as it is kept behind the counter. Its about £4 for 125ml pot – it goes un-runny in the pot quite quickly if you leave the cap off. Here ...

Last week a new building was completed – generally in German style to suit most of the other structures on the FBGR - built in foamboard with plasticard details as usual. DSCF4248.JPG This week we were able to ballast the recently rebuilt area – resin bound 2mm green granite stuck down with SBR. DSC...

Today the bridge abutments were fitted. And this is what it looks like when the bridge is not in place
Next should be the track ballasting of this area, and maybe a little building in the Y.

JOhn

The rebuilt bridge middle bit was fitted yesterday, and it fits nicely. I was able to retain the original stiffened plywood centre support with the tracks on it and just had to make a new arch bit to underneath (which does not support any weight) and some cladding to the parapet – all in foamboard w...

Some of the Fleecy Bunnies Garden Railway's Fence Buildings, all built from Plasticard, have been out there summer and winter since 2010, and there has never been any problems with the solvent glue joints. In those days I tended to use just the Humbrol Precision Poly Cement: nowadays I use the Humbr...

Its been a little time since I reported – but we have not been completely idle. We started the Fleecy Bunnies Garden Railway in 2004 (thirteen years ago!), and we are now finding that some of the construction work under-taken in the first couple of years was not good enough. We were keen to get ever...

I have found a use for the roof left over from the POLA crane (see http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/about7810.html&highlight=&sid=7849995f13d92ba1b56ebda29b8ba0e8). It had to be tidied up round the place where the cables would have come out to turn this area into a notice sign. The kiosk, ...

Things have been progressing steadily on the FBGR this year, nothing spectacular, just onward progress. The paving/covering of the boarded area is continuing, as you will here. DSCF3854.JPG I have been making an hexagonal kiosk to be positioned on the platform extension, but my printer went FUTT, an...

The refurbishment of the section of Fence Buildings and Retaining Wall behind the Station area was completed yesterday with the return and refixing of the last three portions of the latter – just in time for the first running session (Weather permitting) next Weekend. DSCF3727 cropped.jpg One thing ...

The repair and repainting of some of the Fence Buildings has not gone at all that smoothly, partly due to interruptions caused by holidays, weather and a succession of family matters, and what is causing me some head-scratching is the learning about Humbrol Acrylic Paints – its a bit of a long story...

To finish up before the worst of the weather, some more areas around the Station Yard area were covered in Foamboard sheets. Mostly only 2 mm thick, this material was obtained as scrap from a local signmaker. Hammered with a small bit of paving stone to put random dents over the surface and then jus...

The POLA Station has been sitting there all alone for a few years, and so I thought it was time it had a bit more platform (in Foamboard). A ‘typical’ Germanic railway building was also knocked up with Foamboard walls and Plasticard roof and details to populate the platform (plus a cast metal ticket...

I’ve added another little point of interest, a gallows hoist in front of an arch doorway – as usual all in Plasticard but not the chains of course. These came from my parts bin and so may even have been from some of Erika’s (the wife’s) broken and discarded jewellery (‘Argos Gold’), but I painted th...

The original painted-on bricks/stones to the three arch bridge (see top picture above) were done back in 2008 with a couple of home made rubber stamps using acrylic paint. The colour had definitely toned-down/faded a bit over the years. The FBGR is about a km from the sea-front and when a South-West...

Carrying on with the ‘paving’, I have added a little something to fill up an empty corner. I knocked up a length of fence and this old van body to act as a store. All Plasicard except the little brick piers and the deck made of sleepers in front of the shed is Foamboard – each sleeper individually f...