Lord Street Depot

Thanks Toto. Yes the shunters wagon is a white metal kit that I've built. Almost ready for final painting and detailing. It has a decoder fitted to it to operate red and white lamps....ill post more when it's working.

Hi Gary. Yes, your fault, after I saw it on your layout build I down loaded it and enlarged it to o scale. The first mock up with the printed paper just didn't look right, so I've used the window and door templates and then altered the layout to suit my needs. The extension parts have again used the basic window template parts of the kit. Warehouse door have been reduced in height and two laser cut canopy kits from Lcut have replaced the card ones. I've just ordered from South Eastern Finecast the brick plastic card sheets to finish it.
Kim

 

Thanks Ron, Pete and Paul.

Yes I think the shot looking out of the Windows is something a bit different.
Made up all the boxed sections at the rear today, which have just had a coat of black paint, I'll post some picture tomorrow when they had dried. The back screen has been made and installed, it fixed with Velcro for easy removal.

Kim

 

Thanks Pete, very helpful, I've adjusted the height of the canopy as some of the shots on Google show the canopy a lot lower than how I had originally fitted mine. It's now a scale 10 feet high from the platform, and looks a lot better.
Kim

 

Layout update 12/03/16
Canvass back drop finished (thanks Wifey)Some low relief buildings mounted 50mm behind the rear walling.Black out box's made for lighting system in warehouse (these will cover all the windows and strengthen the model.Canopy lowered and "dry" fitted (still waiting for embossed plasticard to arrive)Main road Entrance to yard made up, ready for some gates, I think the main wall by this entrance will need more detailing by way of some ground floor windows and / or a main entrance door.... what do you think ?Centre steel support has had a piece of wood screwed to it, to square it up, I will be covering this up to form another large chimney to hide the support.Corner rear steel uprights to be painted to match the backdropTop canvass cover is ready to be cut to size.Lighting circuit installed and hopefully this weekend I will get some building lights working.

 

Thanks for all the comments.
Fitting the top canopy cover today standing on the steps gave me this photo opportunity which shows nearly all of the layout plan with most of the main buildings in place.

 

Thanks Chris,
June 4th long weekend is fast approaching, and I want to try and present the layout as best I can in the time available.
Kim