Barchester

Another Barchester design that could fit into many a timber yard scene or as a stand alone model with perhaps a small office and a fence round it. Again nothing complicated or expensive, an all card and timber strip construction that just needs a bit of patience. It is easily modified to make it smaller or larger or just use the idea and techniques for something entirely different. This model can of course be built to any scale without undue difficulty.

Here we have the base of card with the corners cut out for the wooden strip uprights. The steps are just three pieces of card stuck on top of each other, each piece narrower than the one under it. The base has been elevated by gluing thin strips to the underside. The height can be anything you want it to be so that you can have either more or fewer steps. As already stated the uprights are square section timber strip to the top of which has been glued the straight and curved roof supports. The roof could be any shape you like and would then be adjusted accordingly.








Below we see that the shed now has a rear brick wall, brick paper on card. The finish you use here doesn't really matter as very little of the rear wall will be on view when the model is finished. The timber end panels are just made from the panel fencing that is described in another project and is quick and easy to build from scrap bits of card. The roof supports have been scribed and then all the 'timber' detailing has been dyed with Colron wood dye. Not so obvious in this picture, because of the angle of the camera, is the fact that the base has been scribed and coloured for paving slabs, as have the steps. You will also notice that the steps have been cut in half and are now situated at each end of the base instead of in the middle. This is a design change on my part.










Here there is the base part of the model complete with saw table and appropriate pile of saw dust. In this photograph the teeth in the circular saw blade may look massive but bare in mind this is a close up shot and when the model is at the distance from where it will be viewed normally then it will look ok. I have tried a disc with scale teeth and at the viewing distance they can't be seen. Bear this in mind with all your modelling that unless an object is right at the front of the layout then scale may have to be played around with a little if you want detail to be seen.








This next picture shows the top half of the model with it's roof fitted, but not coloured yet. It is much easier to work detail on a model if the object can be split down into different parts.










Finally here is the completed model before it goes to it's correct place on Barchester. Notice the stacked timber at the rear of the shed and the man spraying the raw timber with preservative.










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