House/Station Building by Thomas Smith

This scratch built house/station was made from balsa wood and was completed a couple of years ago.
It is all freelance, but I built it on the memories I had of seeing timber buildings erected. I just used thick card for the plasterboard inner wall linings. The roof is made out of individual pieces of wood and apart from the guttering and down pipes, which were leftovers from Pola kits, all is balsa. The paint is from the tester pots you can purchase from DIY stores. The building looks passable for a North German/Denmark type of building and provides a little character different from the plastic kits.
 

Photos by Thomas Smith

Mill Creek Signal Box by Robert Leavold

This scratch built signal box on the American section of my railway is constructed from 100 thou plasticard overlaid with Tenmille embossed brick, roof tile, and weatherboard plastic sheets.  It is painted with Humbrol paint and matt varnish. It is loosely based on a 'HO' scale model.
 

Photos by Robert Leavold

A French House by Peter Smith

The photos are of a French house which Peter has built for his next layout, St Jean sur Mer. The model is totally scratch-built, mainly in plastic, and has a fully detailed interior making use of 1/24th scale dolls house fittings. The model is 1/22.5 scale, and will stand at the end of the layout to mask the tracks leading into the fiddle yard.