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Bob K Member 
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I have always liked the style of theHornby buildings used in their trackside range, but the finish is very poor and detail is usually provided by paper stickers. I thought it would be fun to see what could be done to make them look a little better. For the beginner this would be a good option to acquire cheap buildings from the second-hand market and bring them up to a standard for a model railway. It also does not cost too much if you mess up! The first building is a favourite of mine, consisting of a little country station building, with tall brick chimneys:  By adding embossed plastic brick overlays, a new roof , window sills and other detail, as well as some painting and weathering it can be made to look quite good:  Next is the Water Tower:  Once again the model has received embossed and laser cut overlays, with new windows and doors. I have still to finish painting and weathering on this item:  And finally the signal box:  For this model (which I did a few years ago) brick embossed plastic walls are used. The roof is from the kit, covered in tiles made from paper strips. I kept the original windows and woodwork:  |
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Sol A modelling Moderator. 
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Nice Bob - making a silk purse out of a sows ear !
____________________ Ron NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline. |
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Bob K Member
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An accurate observation Ron. I still think these buildings offer goodt potential for the modeller on a limited budget. | |||||||||
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Petermac Admin 
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What a difference Bob  . They really do look good and by now I suspect, not the type of structure you'd see on every layout as one does with the card kits .............____________________ 'Petermac |
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Longchap Full Member 
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Well done Bob, I've also upgraded a Hornby station building with simple detailing and the piggies' ears soon dissapear! A most worthwhile method which saves much time in building the basic structure. Bill  ____________________ At 6'4'', Bill is a tall chap, then again, when horizontal he is rather long and people often used to trip over him! . . . and so a nickname was born  |
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