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Construction
of Buildings . . . . . . . . .
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All
of the layout buildings are built from
1.5mm thick picture framing mounting
board onto which the elevations were
drawn and the stonework details scribed.
In many cases the buildings had to be
physically measured with heights
calculated from stone courses, the
exceptions being the houses forming
"The Square" for which drawings
were made available by Perth &
Kinross Council, and the BBC set
"Forbes the Grocer" for which
Alex Gourlay, then head of BBC Design,
kindly provided copies of his working
drawings. With the timber built Signal
Box and Goods Shed, the joint beads were
made by solvent welding .010 x .015
Microstrip onto the card at 3mm centers. |
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Slate
roofing was represented using overlapping
strip slates, scribed at 3mm centers on
heavy quality A4 paper, from which 4mm
wide strips were cut and glued onto the
roof sections with a 2mm overlap. The
models were all painted with dilute
mixtures of poster paint to achieve the
correct colour finish. |
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Accurate
signage for the hotel, shops and notice
boards was from photographs taken at a
distance which produced, on a
6"x4" print a scale version of
the required item. In most cases this was
18 paces back with a 50mm lens on the
camera. Where the photographic paper
thickness was overscale, the top film was
picked off with a scalpel as in the case
of the BBC vehicle graphics |
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To
create scenes of activity around the
buildings approx 200 Preiser figures were
painted and used. At the village hall
they are arriving to see our exhibition
of the layout, the banner advertising the
event in English, French, German and
Italian can be see above the door, this
again is a photo of the real thing. At
the hotel a German touring bus full of
Continental Modelers anxious to see the
Eisenbahnmodell, is offloading. |
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