I made a good start at building a model in plastic card, but the project was put on hold while we moved house (twice in 2012). When peace finally returned and work started on St Petrock, I decided that a brick built version would be better, as it would match my Bachmann model of Bude signal box. It was then that I spotted a review of the ABM Railcraft card kit in Railway Modeller so, keen to speed things along, I ordered the brick BR(S) version.
A clip from the ABM Railcraft website |
If you're tempted to do the same thing, it might be worth contacting ABM first.* I see from their website that they are happy to reduce the kit to 3mm scale at no extra cost, so they may be equally happy to produce a mirror image version.
Peter Denny once advised me (there's name-dropping for you!) to scribe the horizontal lines of card roof tiles with a blunt screwdriver. The result is a great improvement on flat card, though I'm less pleased with the ridge tiles, which I produced from plasticard. One day, I tell myself, I'll replace them with tiles made from thin paper.
By the way, for this photo I simply plonked the building on St Petrock's unfinished platforms. There's lots of work to do here, including building a canopy to protect the passengers. It has been known to rain in Cornwall, even in the summer!
Finally, I thought it only right that Station Master Hubert Penrose and his wife should be able to relax in front of a television when their day's work was done. In 1960 the only channel available in these parts was BBC from the North Hessary Tor transmitter, so there's a Band 1 H-aerial on the roof. How the memory fades... I'd quite forgotten that those old aerial rods were almost 10 feet long. No wonder Cornish gales toppled them so often.
* ABM do indeed now offer a mirror image of their station bulding, and also a suitably modified version of the canopy.