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Here is my attempt at Aldebough station, it is MDF and is 'plastered' with polyfiller. It has been made using my favorite process LASER cutting. I designed it with a CAD program which has allowed me to get good detail. The roof is covered in emery paper tiles which took a bloody long time to stick on! In the picture the ticket office door is missing as is much of the station detail such as posters, signs, fire buckets etc!




Once more apologies for the pictures! They were taken a minuit ago- I have only just worked out how to uploas them properly!

looks great!

Very nice.

I love the edging on the roof etc, looks bliidy fantastic!

looking at the detail on that, I wonder how long it will be before manufacturers start laser cutting buildings. Looks great anyway

Marvelous, full of character.

great work.

Many thanks! The edging or 'valensing' is the correct pattern for this region! It is cheap and many manufactureurs already have LASER cutters so I don't suppose it won't be long before they are available! I would sell them but I am not allowed to sell things made at school!

I hope that noone minds I have changes the topic! I have been doing alot in the way of structure building and many are not made of MDF!

Today I decided to convert one of my old gauge 1 scale buildings to a more suitable 16mm scale one. It was a signal box. This is what happened:

It is simply too big and too smaller scale but my grandfather built it for me so I changed it, I had already started changing it here and put it back togethor for the photo.

The size is looking better already!

I had to cut the roof down...

There that's better!

In this isxe comparisan with River Butley it is still too tall so I shall have to cut down the base. The walls will be bricked and the roof tiled and new windows and doors put in so all the nasty joins won't be seen!

That'll look good once it's finished.

So are you adding a wall in front of the levers and a window to a more suitable size?

yes as well as cutting down the base in height and width and opening out the door way cutting down the roof. Now I shall have to add internal furnishings such as stove and chair!

Today I nearly finished the platform at Lower Butley, It is a request halt platform and is meant to look abit neglected, the sort of place 1 lonely person would stand looking for the late train with wasted antisipation!

The fences are made of coffee stirrers

loly sticks stuck and nailed to a floor board for the platform.

I think the result is quite good- detailing is still required!

The simple meathod of locating the platform!

The station at Aldebough is settling in well- I must find that door!

My Gelert's farm is coming along nicely and yes that telegraph pole is broken!

Very nice!!! Get a model Land Rover and paint it in the local electricity company's colours, and have a man up a ladder to fix the telegraph pole!

To bring a dead thread back to life...

I've been Doing some work on some buildings so I can start with the DVLR chronicles again!

Went to Aldeburgh and took lots of pictures of the buildings, had fish and chips on the beach and came back. There are a few buildings I've always really liked in Aldeburgh so I will be making models of them in various ways. To start off lets have a look at Polystyrene.
The two buildings to be made: First this one with the huge door half way up, just too quirky not to be modelled!

And then the flint walled building on the right.

(sorry about the skips!)
First the design is drawn onto a sheet of polly with a felt tip and a ruler.


The holes and general shape are cut out with a bread knife

Then the lines are followed with a metal ruler and a soldering iron


For the flint walled building I took ages thinking how to make the stone blocks raised. Then I thought, "Why not just melt away the inset bits"


With my head reeling from the smell of molten Polystyrene I decided to pack up the soldering iron and give them a first coat of paint


The insets will be filled with little stones then mortared to give an authentic flit wall look.

Excellent work Mr B. And hats off to you for getting all that done without passing out from the toxic fumes.

When I made this building ( based on Chelfham Station) last summer I used rather a clunky great soldering iron which did not have heat adjustment. Well, thats my excuse for the rather poor reproduction of the stone wall! The building has come on a bit since this was taken.



I did it outside in a light breeze but the fumes still sent me bandy. I vowed next time to use a proper mask, and a more gentle iron!

A domestic lighting dimmer switch can be used to turn your "clunky" soldering iron into a "variable temperature" one

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:66352 wrote:To bring a dead thread back to life...

I've been Doing some work on some buildings so I can start with the DVLR chronicles again!

Went to Aldeburgh and took lots of pictures of the buildings, had fish and chips on the beach and came back. There are a few buildings I've always really liked in Aldeburgh so I will be making models of them in various ways. To start off lets have a look at Polystyrene.
The two buildings to be made: First this one with the huge door half way up, just too quirky not to be modelled!

And then the flint walled building on the right.

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Is it a requiremant in town to have an open topped skoda parked outside?

I do like your technique for the buildings