Here I went to the other extreme using Tamiya “Dark Iron”- this proved to be far too dark and, very annoyingly, it came out quite shiny in various lighting conditions despite the application of matt varnish.
So I next lightened it by mixing in a little white paint, and came out with this more acceptable version
Tamiya “Dry Rust” was used to pick out the edges of the sheets. (That's not dry rust paint on the rug!)
My black & white photo indicates a large renewed/repaired area on the station side of the shed and several of the louvre roof sheets also having been replaced. These can be seen here having been picked out in a lighter colour. Not having a photo of the yard side of the shed I have just plumped for the odd sheet replacement here & there.
This overhead view shows the contrast of new and old sheeting.
for the time being at least I am happy with the outcome, but may review the position after I have painted the shed itself.
This covers the easy addition of coal loads to wagons as illustrated in my layout thread at: viewtopic.php?p=715314#p715314
I used Daler Rowney card (available at “The Works”) to prepare a three piece framework for insertion into the wagon and covered it with well crunched real coal (Some lumps may appear large but the smaller ones have obviously worked their way to the bottom!).
3 pieces of card were cut like this
Pritt was applied to keep the structure stable
whilst PVA was used to liberally coat the joins and fill in the gaps where the 2 diagonal pieces crossed each other.
When fully dry, the edges of the tops were painted black and PVA was applied to the top.
it was placed in a mixing palette (in order to retain and recycle the spillages when sprinkling coal over it). Then when dry it was placed in a wagon.
The new windows are mounted on clear plastic ready for cementing into position
Windows and doors now in situ.
To the far left is the former for the relatively tall chimney that dominates the roof of the buildings
attention was turned to fabricating the chimney itself by building it up from Plasikard – the long thin strip is for forming the rim round the chimney as
it was cemented oversize and then trimmed off resulting in
The roof came next – I used Plastikard tiled roof sheet
but wasn’t satisfied with the result so resorted to using the thin card method previously covered at: viewtopic.php?p=678864#p678864
Even though unpainted I much prefer the card method, labour-intensive though it is.
Strangely/interestingly enough the workshop complex had a flat roofed section at its furthest extent (no doubt an extension in its day), and this was easily formed by 4 pieces of Plastikard
