What have I been doing over the last month or so? In my stash of bits, bobs and potential projects I had a couple of the Bachmann junior 0-6-0 tanks derived from their googly eyed Thomas. One of them went under the knife to produce this seen coupled to a pair of Tomy trackmaster carriages cut and shut onto a pair of GWR toad underframes.
I also had a trip to Aberystwyth, the VOR shop to be precise, where I picked up a card kit for a DVLR station. My plan was/is to use the kit as a plan or cutting template for a version in plastic so I made copies of the bits I wanted on the printer. I prefer the smaller DVLR style building so chopped up the prints to see if it would work.
What previously occupied the site.
Now replace by the proof of concept card mock up.
Time to get out the plastic. Firstly the blind alley, sticking the prints to plasticard with dilute PVA caused the plastic sheet to warp when dried.
I remembered I had a stock of sticky backed label material stored away for future use which I used for the second attempt.
You can see that I've started to cut the panelling out but it's hard to see if the panels line up from the front so turning the sheet over better reveals the degree of success.
I was happy with that so continued. At the moment all the panelling has been cut out and the individual sections await the construction of the basic building carcass so that they can be overlaid onto it. There's still quite a way to go.