Dave
Western Thunderer
I started to build the engine shed. I had bought some laser-cut MDF roof trusses, so made the shed to suit these. I used Wills corrugated asbestos sheet for the sides. I used these things for ease of building but I wasn't happy with any of it. The proportions were all wrong for a start; it was too wide and too tall to suit the available space.
I decided to scrap it and build from scratch. This allowed me to make the shed more like the one at British Oak, which had no doors and no sheeting whatsoever on one end. This means that the trusses are in full view and so need to look prototypical, so I used a photo of the British Oak shed to base the new build on.
The first attempt.
The water tower, made from two Bachmann boiler loads, seemed like a good idea at the time but is overkill and that too will be scrapped in favour of something more in keeping with the site, although I have never seen a photo of the watering facilities at British Oak.
The second attempt, made from Plastikard. I made a pattern and milled the trusses on the pantograph. The frame will be clad in individual panels of corrugated aluminium foil.
Sometimes you've just got to do things the hard way.
I decided to scrap it and build from scratch. This allowed me to make the shed more like the one at British Oak, which had no doors and no sheeting whatsoever on one end. This means that the trusses are in full view and so need to look prototypical, so I used a photo of the British Oak shed to base the new build on.
The first attempt.
The water tower, made from two Bachmann boiler loads, seemed like a good idea at the time but is overkill and that too will be scrapped in favour of something more in keeping with the site, although I have never seen a photo of the watering facilities at British Oak.
The second attempt, made from Plastikard. I made a pattern and milled the trusses on the pantograph. The frame will be clad in individual panels of corrugated aluminium foil.
Sometimes you've just got to do things the hard way.