Card Building Kits

With the abundance of trackside buildings available these days part of the planning stage should be given over to choosing the era of the layout. Which ever age you finally decide upon you will have no problem obtaining period stations, houses, factories, or farm buildings. Authenticity however is entirely down to the designer, if you want The Mallard arriving at Ashford International Tunnel Terminal, who am I to argue. Card kits whilst seemingly cheap and nasty are really quite realistic and also provide a sense of “I made it myself” as opposed to click together plastic kits. The picture below shows a Metcalfe Goods Shed card kit built by me on top and the Metcalfe picture below.

Whether you go for card or plastic kits you will need some essential tools to help you on your way.

• Cutting Mat
• Steel Ruler
• Modellers Knife
• Glue
• Assorted colour felt tip pens.
• Small nail file or emery board.
• Clear tape
• Thin masking Tape
   

click a picture to see descriptions of the Metcalfe kits built by me.

Scratch Building

Inexperience prevents me from contributing on this subject. If anyone would like to write an article on this subject please feel free to e-mail me.

Here are a couple of projects I am attempting

Coal Bunker and Coaling platform

Timber yard

Plastic Building Kits

These come from many different manufacturers and are on the whole excellent kits. Some need more experience than others so sound advice would be to start small and work upward

The following pictures show various models from different manufacturers.

Faller produce over 70 industrial buildings this one being the
Serial no 130346 Covered petrol pumps

Ratio & Wills kits SS12  Wills OO Scale - STATION GARAGE & PUMPS

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