Mollington Road: Mock ups to buildings...

My industrial micro layout 'Mollington Road', a mix of all sorts of inspiration including Birkenhead docks, Trafford Park, Southampton docks and Devonport, has been making slow slow slow progress alongside other projects, but with a myriad of Planet Industrials releases planned this year, the layout is needed as a display for shows later in the year so I've been pushing on...

The basic premise was a shed/warehouse over the middle siding in a yard area with the third (right) siding in hard standing. A warehouse behind this, and a road access with gatehouse and then some more generic industrial building offices on the right hand side of the layout.

These mocks ups were added in stages, the first stage, above was adding the shed building and checking viewing angles and the length of the wall I wanted to separate this from the running line behind (note here, the Kadee under track magnet still in place - later removed as more trouble than good). 

Next up the other buildings were added and some stock arranged to check what sort of angles would be possible. I plan to make the back of the shed open, so it has a detailed interior with brickwork inside already (see later). The angles looked good and promising, and during the process an element of 'playing' proved the concept still had merit for operating from time to time as well!

The office building has been replaced with a cut down version of the surgery at Devonport, that used to be by the reception sidings before they were moved requiring it to be demolished in the late 1970s. This is a plasticard core with slaters embossed brickwork on the outside, and extra layers top and bottom to represent the prototype's stepped brickwork. 

The shed, as mentioned has a plasticard core with embossed brickwork on the outside and inside - the roof it just balanced in place at the moment. The gate house is just a single skin of embossed plastic, but will be strengthened before a roof is added and more detailing. Next up is the building on the right, a generic bland brick warehouse, and then the brick wall by the shed. I then need to decide on levels, and if required make up the road level in the foreground. More soon, well soonish, hopefully...