A shed for Samson in 009: all walls...

It's proving hard to photograph this building - so I've tried two approaches this time! Anyhow, more progress on my new scratchbuilt engine shed...

You'll notice the doors, drain pipes, gutters and weather boards are now a mucky old green, this was mixed from Humbrol enamels, and then when nearly dry, dry brushed with a slightly lightened version of the same colour to highlight the edge of planks, and the damage I'd inflicted on the shed doors. It looks quite dark in some of these photos but doesn't appear so bad in the flesh!

You'll notice the window sill, lintels and door step are now in stone, and the chimney cap in stone and brick, finishing off the basic structure and covering up pretty much all the unpainted styrene. In these top two photos taken on my workbench the bricks appear quite vivid, but they don't in real life hence the photos below. Before these details were painted I had drybrushed the walls with Humbrol enamels, brick red (70) and matt red-orange (100), and for the stone walls 70. These were mixed with touches of white and chocolate to tint them slightly as the layering effect was built up.

Once dry I used the same colours to mix up on a small palette variations in tone, and hand painted bricks and stones randomly in lighter and darker colours - all as per the description in Martyn Welch's book. I observed the colours I'd seen on cottages and farm buildings locally here in the Dee Valley - which is where the engine shed is supposed to be located, so hopefully it's starting to look more like a local structure then a generic building.

The next stage is to paint the lintel over the door, and brackets in a rusty metal colour, touch in the door handle, and start the roof - as well as use some mucky washes on the brick wall (at least) to tie the dry brushed and hand painted bricks together.

The final shot shows the building posed with some suitable motive power and stock, as a bit of a hint of what is to come - the shed is actually a touch too low to allow the engine access, so the base will be build up on the layout so the rails are more level with the floor, but it was built to house the small diesels and quarry Hunslets really... anyway, more on the building soon, and once I've built a few more structures and the layout feels more a reality I'll share the plans!