Progress on the village scene

Shortwaite Village

The edge-of-village scene at Shortwaite.

It was planned to fill the the top right-hand corner of the layout with a scene of village buildings, with a road leading down to the engine shed and goods yard area.  Four buildings were made, the Inn, a cottage next door (behind), an old garage and a chapel frontage.  All, apart from the garage, were made of Wills Dressed Stone, Pantiles and Slates with their cottage windows and buildings details packs.  The garage was made of all sorts to replicate an old road side garage in Arkendale, North Yorkshire that I saw on the internet.  The prototype is decrepit and over grown, made of a bit of everything: stone, brick, rubble, corrugated iron, wood and pan tiles.  Here is a photo of the building before painting:

The bare model of the tumbling down old garage in Arkendale.  A brick extension had been added at the left hand end at some point.

More walls were built from sanded Wills Coarse Stone or Peco Modelscene 5090 Stone Walls,  and rock faces were again made using the hydro-fibre compound, dry-brushed with brown-grey and green acrylics.  A war memorial was added next door to the chapel from a Wills SS72 Village scene.

  Cut up calendar pictures have been pasted on the back scene to give the village more depth.  In this picture the rocks have just been added after building walls at the side of the road way, around the garage yard, and behind the inn.  The rock compound has been dry-brushed with acrylics.

The village scene above the yet-to-be-built goods yard.