Scratchbuilt buildings the Kirtley way: The updated and expanded second edition.

By Peter Smith

Every model railway need buildings, but they pose a challenge to the modeller unlike that of anything else. Done well, they can make the layout, but done badly they can have the opposite effect!These days as well as numerous kits you can buy excellent ready made models but there are two problems with them; you can end up with a layout that looks like every other one, and you are unlikely to find exactly the models you want on the shelf ready to buy. No matter how good that model of Goathland station in the local model shop is, if you are modelling Kent or South Wales it is no use to you at all. Not long ago one of the magazines produced a layout set in southern England showcasing what was available in 4mm ready to use, and they put on it a Midland Railway Settle & Carlisle station building repainted into Southern railway green & buff. That is akin to painting a GWR castle red and running it over Shap, and it drives me nuts....no one would dream of doing that with a loco, so why do it with the buildings? Are they any less important?There is one way to get exactly what you want of course and that is to build it...after all, that's what modelling is about. I hope that this book will show you that it's not difficult, and with the correct buildings in place even with no trains in view a layout will clearly represent a particular company or region of the country. They are the signature of a station; the trains come and go but the buildings are always there. I use simple techniques, simple materials and simple tools... they apply to all scales, so read this book to see how I turn them into realistic model buildings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1522887253
• ISBN13: 9781522887256
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.2" x 8.5"