Station Building Part 5

It's been a bit quiet on the layout lately. I've been working on a project for a club layout as well - so that's taken some of my 15 minutes a day up.

I've also had to tidy things up. It turns out that I'm a messy worker, no matter how hard I try to keep things in there place.

That hasn't stopped the station building progressing.

Here is the finished building. All the parts have now been glued together. It is amazing how well it all fit together before I started painting.

As it nestles up to the window frame only half of the interior could be modelled. I made this into a waiting room. A couple of Peco station seats were glued to the wall and a few people glued to the seats. This is so the building can be removed for extra work later. I put some travel posters up on the wall behind. I had printed a few for the Billabong Wharf station building. The poster just visible is a scan from a vintage travel poster style postcard from Estes Park in Colorado. I bought a few of these postcards while I was away with the idea of creating little travel posters.

It dawned on me this morning (no pun intended) that I don't need to glue figures and fixtures down onto the layout. It has been a while since I have got to this far on a layout which hasn't been portable. This means that this bloke won't forever be stuck on this seat reading his blank paper. I'm not sure about his green socks though. Don't look too closely at the photo though - I've already found a couple of spots that I need to touch up.

The logo on the sign was made using Adobe Illustrator. The organisation which I work for has given its employees access to lynda.com - a website which has video tutorials on all sorts of things. I watched a couple on how to make a logo. It's a simple effort going from nothing to the logo in the space of an evening. It represents Boyd's Folly, an iconic building from the Eden area, and the waves of the coastal water. Why? I just wanted to brand my railway and give it a sense of place.

What is next?

I reckon that I will need a signal cabin on the platform. I might need to make a hedge or look at some form of fencing. I should put some lights on there too.

Until next time.