I printed out the scaled drawings for both the main station building and the platform building. These I mounted on to card. I had raided my recycling bin for a couple of Rice Krispie packets. Away I went cutting out and building in the best Blue Peter fashion(no sticky back plastic). Each building slowly formed and individually they looked ok. I had also copied the Grange Road signal box and built this as well. But, when the buildings where put together something did not look right. It was either the platform building was too large or was the main station building too small. Ok out with the ruler and start checking. I went back to the drawings for the platform building. I honed in on one particular measurement when scaled out it appeared that the platform building was too large. But just to double check I looked for another dimension to check. This was from a plan of building and showed the width of the main waiting room. Oh dear this scaled out correctly so a double check on a couple of other measurements showed that the scale I had was correct. So I had initially picked on the one figure that was probably wrong but not a problem as the drawings I had created where reasonably accurate.
So back to the main building. I again checked against a couple of dimension. Yes I was out by a few millimetres so a quick re-scale and out with the glue and scissors again. Hopefully now I can get back onto the planning.
Moral to all of this is the check check and double check again and again!
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