Once every four weeks I have to work all weekend. This can
be a bit of a chore, as nine times out of ten, there is more sitting around
than actually doing anything productive. All is not lost however, because
Scalescenes have just released a new model. It is the new T006c Low Relief
Hotel. It would be rude not to have a bash at it, whilst sitting around waiting
for wagons. It’s low relief and will sit to the back of any layout and be a
very imposing feature next to a station building. I’m thinking that it may be
able to be built twice and make it into an “L” shape, to go around a very
imposing roof joist I have on my layout in the loft.
As you can see, my work space was set up more for building a
model, than actually working.
The first step was to cut out all of the windows. 91 separate
windows or 232 individual cuts to be precise. Sore finger time I’m afraid. My wife
Jak has a new plotting / cutting machine, and I was hoping that we would have
it set up with the software, that would enable me to scan in the window sheet
and cut the all out for me. But we couldn’t get it set up in time, so I had to
cut the by hand.
Secondly,
the floors and ceilings glued back to back, with the addition of an extra
couple of layers to two of them, to form an upper and lower ledge. Cut the
small internal walls out, and away we go building.
At this stage, there is two pillars to add to the main hall
way. These are simply made by rolling the printed paper to form the column. But
since I use self-adhesive labels, these are tricky to roll. So I used my trusty
orange sticks (see earlier post). I just simply wrapped it around the stick.
On this
kit, there is the addition of a photographic backdrop of the main staircase. This
will be visible through the main front door.
Once the first set of walls are in place, It’s onwards and
upwards.
I will just build this project at work. So it will be a few
weeks before any progress will be seen.
Until Next Time…………….