I really hate cheap and tawdry flash photography- it gets the points across though.
I bought a couple of the Walther’s sugar mills. Greatland Sugar Refining- just the name is enough to send one into diabetic shock! I was attracted to the mill because the structure looks like a Victorian factory, and really to my eye looks like a pre-grouping works. The side of the building in particular reminds me of the Swindon A shop. I can’t wait to paint it in a shade of GWR engineer’s blue brick.
The "kit" comes with three structures, the mill, a warehouse, a smaller shed, and a smokestack. The largest structure in the kit is ridiculously small for a large structure. I suppose that's called selective compression. Next to a modest British Rail diesel it would be dwarfed. Thus I decided to combine two of these HO kits to produce two longer one-sided buildings.
I used three fronts and a side for one building; I used three sides and a front for the other building. The odd front or side was bisected to provide some depth to the one sided building. The Plexiglas backside is from the local home repair store- it’s intended to replace the glass in doors. It’s reasonably cheap and much stiffer than the walls supplied with the Walthers kits. Of course there wasn’t enough roof since I effectively doubled the square footage of the buildings. It was easy enough to find some suitable vacuum formed plastic card with shingles for the second roof. These are actually molded to represent some type of clay roof- once it’s painted grey though it’s not going to make a difference, it will look like a shingled roof.
The steam shed has now been airbrushed and is shown with the Swindon A shop in the background. Once the roof has been glued down, the shed will be ready to host some grimy green diesels… |
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