Aysgarth inspired coal office.

There has been some correspondence on the use of foam board to make buildings etc, and I thought I would share a method I have used in the past.
Foam board is a sandwich of expanded foam between two layers of card in 3, 5 and 9 mm thickness's, what I have done is take some 9mm board and peeled of one layer of card to expose the foam, I then marked out the sides and ends as normal, and cut out the windows and doors, I next scribed the stonework into the foam before assembling the building which is inspired by the coal office at Aysgarth in north Yorkshire, here are some photos of the finished model.






Hopefully they should appear, Pete.

 

Hi Gormo, I cannot take credit for this technique, it was shown to me by a chap called Jack (I can,t remember his 2nd name) who hailed from the north east, Newcastle area, who used this method on his own models, many years ago.

Hi Matt, I used a small screwdriver to scribe the horizontal courses then pressed the vertical courses in with the same screwdriver, the texturing of the blocks was done randomly by whatever came to hand, cocktailstick, electrical screwdriver, scriber etc, I did play around with some of the thin foam packaging that is used for take away foods, the boxes you know? and they take embossing very well, I scribed an uneven circle then scribed brick work within it and it looked just like peeling rendering off a wall, mind you that was in 7mm scale, I didn,t try it for 4mm, but I imagine it will work in any scale.

Pete.

 

Thank you chaps, now I am going to have trouble getting my head through the shed door , I have made a model of Aysgarth station building using the same method though I don,t think it is up to the same standard, however I will take some pics and let you decide.

Pete.