Creating a goods yard

Scratchbuilding

Mainly I use double thickness cardboard for the shells of the buildings which are fitted together with Contact adhesive, after the pre-measured doors and windows have been removed its time to cover with brick paper, balsa wood or whatever floats ya boat ! The roofing is strips of thin card snipped at regular intervals to represent tiles, on the coach / loco shed I found some cake packaging material which is the correct scale (4inch corrugates) for o gauge.

Here a new experiment has been a success, using a layer of 50% concrete 50% sand I successfully made a concrete platform  

Scratchbuilding is fun and quite a challenge, take for example the fork truck, none are commercially available in O gauge so I made my own .....

https://christopherrussell1.blogspot.com/2019/12/fork-truck-project.html

Most of these items are commercially available but you can still have a go at making some pallets, I think you may be able to tell which ones I made ? a bit of rough with the good is always a good combination.

Have fun and hippy modelling or should that be happy ?

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