Global Scale Modeller

Hi all my daughter and son wanted to know what I wanted for Christmas ( they knew it would be model related) 

So I thought long and hard about what to ask for, i wanted something different and I've come up with a dio which could go on for years or finish fairly quickly depending on how I feel it's going.

I lost my dad this yr and one of the things which stands out in my mind (apart from the tall ships and ive had enough of those for now) (ive got 3 stalled tall ship builds 1 unstarted and the Bismarck and KGV on the go) anyway i digress was helping him with his railway layout (which at the time was huge he even built boxes which went round the garden and back in the house, all with removable lids to deal with derailment and such.

Anyway we live near the Colne Valley Railway so I thought I would relive some of my childhood and build a railyard dio of trains in various stages of repair. I figure this to be an enthusiast who is just interested in steam so it will have rolling stock and trains from all over the world. There had a lot of 1/87 - 1/72 Steam train and rolling stock kits availiable so no loss of choice.

I'm looking forward to this, i see it as a loooooooooooong term build (with really no end result in mind) as long as I think of ideas I can just keep adding to it (who knows maybe I will even add some working trains) anyway I have bought a model to start it all off.

The first thing any steam train museum needs is a station 



Last time I built a card board rail building I was in my teens, my brother was a glint in my dad's eyes and discos were the new place to be.

This contains laser cut parts, lasers were things of science fiction movies in those days.

I'm open to all ideas and recommendations of kits and buildings (keep in mind this is a side line build so no expensive kits as my main money for modelling will go for my main modelling)

Made a start on the card model





They are incredibly strong considering they are only cardboard.

How do you weather these card models?

This one caught my attention - really looking forward to seeing how you tackle this.

If it helps at all Dapol do a range of kits including buildings, locomotives & rolling stock: here

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Thanks neil

Always want to know how you treat the joins. I imagine putty and sanding isn't a good idea with a printed finish.

This is coming on really well. Cardboard lends itself really well to model buildings.

The Pendon Museum in the Vale of the White Horse of Uffington, near Wantage in Oxfordshire has a highly detailed model of a village at the turn of the century between 1800 and 1900, and other landscape layouts. All their buildings were made from card, and they published a book named 'Cottage Modelling at Pendon' describing all the techniques they use.