Well it's been too many months between blog posts but it's not that nothing has been happening. Social media are fickle. Anyway, a big project still under construction is a single road engine shed based on the later one at Tiverton Junction. Much material is available that shows the shed as viewed from the front and a bit of one side. The plan I sourced from Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre appears to be a plan for either 1) the older shed or 2) the actual building does not match the original plan or 3) Tiverton (not Junction) had a single road engine shed or 4) other ____ ?
Regardless then of plan, I have had to make changes to fit the location on the layout so this being my railway, this is my shed, with a view to having it look like the Tiverton Junction one as it was in the 1940s until it it was demolished. Many mock ups and trials have now resulted in the setup I have which includes an inspection pit, made with the Peco kit. One of the tricks I am using is to sprinkle exterior polyfilla (a bit concrete in colour and offers texture as well) on wet grey acrylic paint. Recently the pit got glued in with some tricks to have the shed wired in isolation in a visually discreet way. There are some gaps that will now need filling and then the rest of the floor needs to be coloured/textured to match the inspection pit. Anyway, as a work in progress it seems to be going well and I am happy with how it looks:
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