In anticipation of getting the layout set up for a bout of detailing, I have been pressing on with getting some of the buildings ready for the layout. Finishing the quay masters cottage was a big step forward and I am now making an attempt to finish off the next of the buildings for the dairy platform. The basis of the model is a low relief warehouse (from Fair Price Models). After assembling the kit using superglue, I painted the exterior of the building with PVA glue before spreading polyfilla over the surface. This was sanded down, the holes filled in with more polyfilla and then had a final finish of wet and dry, alongside using a nail file to sand out the windows and door.
Originally I was going to scribe this exterior surface but I quite like the smooth finish and I have now decided to leave this as a smooth mortared finish. The basic wall colour is now painted, although I need to seal this in with some varnish, pick out some of the brick work on the window lintels, alongside adding some windows/doors, roof etc. In addition, the central window will have a detailed office with interior lights, etc. I also need to get some custom signs made up for the exterior of the warehouse - I think I am going to have a try at designing these myself, with a factitious company name.
At the same time, I have been constructing a couple more buildings to add onto the layout. This includes a larger warehouse, with a covered gateway. This building needs a bit more sanding before a second coat of polyfilla is added to cover all the blemishes. This building will have eventually have a scribed finish. This building has a greater depth than the main dairy office, so I am not certain it will fit onto the layout. However, I still have the small DCC test track / microlayout to finish - so I will be able to find a home for it somewhere.
There is also a third warehouse that has been cut up to make two smaller building; when constructed the original warehouse was three stories high and it poked above the backscene - so out came the saw! These two building are now also in the same process of sanding and adding polyfilla.
In other news, the layout still has not been re-erected. We have had lots of people to stay over summer - which is great - but given the size of the layout it is just not practical to have the layout up, when we have people over. So the date has been set for the end of the September now to re-erect the layout and really get to grips with adding the backscene, getting these buildings glued in and adding a lot of the detailing. In anticipation of the layout detailing commencing I have also been buying lots of detailing parts to add to the layout. So fingers crossed, when the end of September arrives I can really make some progress.
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