O Gauge Buildings Continued

Over the weekend, I managed to get the two end boards for the layout set up in the lounge. These are the two boards that have had minimal scenery applied so far and it is time to make a start on these. The first task was to place the buildings that I have made onto the layout and see how they fit within the overall space. First up I popped the little  shelter onto the platform. It fits really well, although it is potentially a little to wide - some modellers licence will have to be applied. However, the little shelter looks quite empty on the platform - just what I wanted to achieve - it does feel quite big and empty which I was really pleased with. However, the platform does look somewhat monochrome at the moment, despite layering in a lot of colour when I painted it. So a job for the next two weeks will be to attack the platform with some dry brushing - to add a little tonal variation.

The platform shelter - this works quite nicely I think, 

but the platform needs some tonal variation added.

The quay masters cottage was also placed at the edge of the layout to act as a scenic break for for the fiddle stick exit. The positioning of the cottage right against the edge of the baseboard does not look quite right - and it is a tight squeeze to fit the cottage onto the space provided. However, it does create a good scenic break and there is definitely a feeling of the railway running through a small built up area.

The quay masters cottage acting as a scenic break at the edge of the layout.

On the other side of the tracks will be three buildings, which are all part of the dairy platform and offices. I rearranged these severeal times to try to achieve the best fit. The main dairy building has been painted in some somewhat garish colours - but I thought maybe in keeping with some of the hideous 1960's colour schemes that were around! There is still plenty of detailing to go in order to finish this building. The other larger warehouse on the left will be modelled as an abandoned structure from the pre-railway use of the quay side; however it is currently too wide for the layout. This is a consequence of having to place the backscene away from the baseboard edge. So the saw is going to come out again for this building!

Main office diary building painted in a somewhat garish colour scheme. There is a lot of detailing still to go for this building.

The small diary siding - other smaller buildings / structures will be squeezed around these buildings once they are finally finished.

The smaller building on the platform is the delivery office for the dairy and this will be positioned between the two larger buildings. Having now placed this building on the layout, part of the roof I painted in a light grey colour now sticks out like a sore thumb. So one future task will be toning this part of the roof down with some dry brushing.

For the next month or so, I have a clear programme of modelling tasks to progress the detailing of the layout. The list is:

a) Dry brush the platform to add a little tonal variation.
b) Dry brush the roof of the small diary office building to add some tonal variation.
c) Finish off the larger dairy building.
d) Narrow the larger diary warehouse so it fits onto the layout.
e) Finish the water at the quay side.
f) Add some basic vegetation to these two baseboards, weeds, grass etc.
g) Add the backscene.

h) Glue these buildings into place and wire the electrics for lighting into some battery boxes with swtiches under the layout.

I aim to work through these tasks over the next few weeks, however as always in life there are plenty of other non-modelling tasks that require my time. If I can finish off adding the backscene and doing the quay water, these are major milestones for completion of the layout and are tasks that I have been been putting off somewhat. It is now time to crack on with them, during the weeks leading up to xmas.