Type- Kit
A must for most Layouts is to have a shed in which to store locos. Although mainly for realism it would also help keep your precious engines out of paint fading sunlight and damaging dust, even rain if you're a garden railway modeller.
This two road shed is for modern image Layouts, perhaps from the 80's to present but maybe give or take a few years (or decades...).
Each kit costs around £20 and can be used individually with options including roof vents, side vents, side windows and doors with plenty of scope for your own design. I left most of these out and have three vents and one door per side, although with current health and saftey laws I'd probably never get away with that!
The real advantage of this kit is it allows multiple units to be joined together. For example two side by side will give a four road shed and two end to end will make a longer shed for more Locos back to back, a shed could also be reduced to as much as half length. There isn't really a limit other than cost and space!
Instructions are included on how to make the modifications including which parts should be left out to make a single undivided space inside.
Other peco kits can also be integrated into the design such as the office building. The ends of the shed need not even line up either, you could have one side of a four or more road shed being two units long while the other stops short at one.
Detail is good but there isn't much to be seen on bare corrugated steel. The yellow doors come already painted with wasp stripes and open with a vertical split. Doors fit at both ends of a shed and again can be left out in multiple to create a single inside space in larger sheds.
Be sure to trim the plastic well or the doors will stick although this isn't the end of the world and can be altered easily following completion.
The shed also includes windows which should be cut from the supplied clear plastic. These are four large skylights on the roof and several optional side windows.
Weathering would be easy, something I intend on doing.
As for what you can fit inside, just about anything within Mk3 coach length or maybe a little longer. Height shouldn't be an issue and it easily took on Classes 58, 60, 66 and 50.
A good pair up of kits would be the Peco inspection pits, which look great inside. Alot of people seem to have done this.
A partition could be added inside between the tracks such as a walkway with tools or workers. Lighting would also be a good addition.
Overall these's little that can be said against this kit but as the full length walls of one unit are made up of four parts care should be taken to get them straight.
The walkways around the roof are also made of plastic, not an issue really as they're quite flexible but metal ones would be better.
If your were planning on using the shed outdoors, chances are it would be fine there too, but I couldn't say wether or not it's water tight!
Rating- 10/10
Good points- flexibility, overall looks, important railway structure.
Bad points- handrails can be flimsy.
