A couple of shots

At long last I have got around to taking a couple of photos of progress on the mock up's front.

Above are the drawings laid out on cereal packet. At the top is the outline of the signal box and below are the two main buildings.



 

Above are all three of the buildings.

 

 

 

Just a close up of the Main Station Building from the Platform side.

 

All of the buildings have been made in the best possible Blue Peter tradition. These are only to be used for planning. I am looking at the two main buildings being scratch built in Plasticard. It will be the excellent ABM kit for the Signal Box. As I have said before this kit is based on the Grange Road Box. Grange Road is a crossing box and not a signal box. Rowfant's box is a signal box as it controlled the tablet instruments. The only modification of the kit that is needed is that the steps have to be turned through 90 degrees.



 





Buildings again

Well once I completed outline models of the three buildings I was not happy. Firstly the main station building looked too small. So I tweaked the drawing and it scaled out better to a few of the dimensions on the drawing. Ok I am happy with the re-scale and built a new model. Now looking at the platform building it just does not look right. In my view it looks too big. However when I scaled out the floor plan it seams to be correct. So out with ruler again! Floor plan correct  but elevations probably wrong. So where do I go to now. Is there a point on the building that could be used as a reference. One item that stands out for me is the size of a door. So 6ft 6ins high or 26mm. What I will do is scale the elevation to get the door size correct and then re-draw the elevations to match the floor plan. Hopefully then all the buildings will match. We wait and see.