What a great building julian, love your lighting. Yep I know what you mean about how scale scenes lay out their printing, but overall they are very good kits, and when you have completed it's a sense of achievement especially with the custom bits you've done. Keep up the good work I very much enjoy following your progress stay safe Eddy xx
Thank you Eddy for your kind feedback, as always much appreciated. I'm in two minds about whether to rejig the Scales Scenes layout and send it back to them as a suggestion. I reckon with an improved layout where cut lines are shared with elements, they could not only save a considerable amount on cutting, but possible also reduce the number of pages for printing.
I think you've done a very commendable job Julian, the Engine shed looks wonderful! I've always been a fan of the northlight type industrial sheds. Cheers, Joachim
Thank you for your feedback, greatly received. I have a Metcalfe engine shed on the layout, so I was after something a bit different and also a little more modern, 1960ish that is.
Hi Julian - I have finally started my first Scalescene build in N Gauge which is the coal office and I have been going back over all your Scalescene builds, especially this one. Absolutely love your latest update by the way. My only question is that my inkjet printer does not allow me to print onto transparency film. If I use the Scaleglaze all the frames are in white and pristine which I dont particularly care for. Like you I will be kit bashing and one of the things I need to do is extend the sides of the engine shed by another four windows. So if you go to 2:39 in your video I can see the grubby brown windows presumably printed on transparency film. I was wondering if I printed them straight onto thin paper would it make much of a difference doing it that way especially as I am working in N gauge. Regards Chris
Thanks Jim for your kind feedback. Yes, I think it shows that card/printed kits are a worthy addition to the layout, the key is to take your time and be as precise as possible, and the outcome can be quite pleasing.
The lighting and shed look great. I'm impressed that you have your own railway room and you get to use the dining room. You need to get your Mrs to do a video on matrimonial tolerance. I'll make sure Mrs T watches it!!
Thanks Alan for your kind feedback. The irony is if I worked on the build in the garage (which is a bit cold this time of year), the Mrs would complain that she never sees me. So I see working on the dining room table as doubly beneficial, it's much warmer inside and the Mrs gets to see me:)
Thank you for your kind feedback. Card kits can be tricky to achieve a convincing result, but two important factors help in obtaining the best possible outcome, one is to take your time - these kits can't be rushed, and the other is to use good quality materials and tools.
Julian your time spent building and modifying has done you credit ,plus the bits and pieces clutter in really makes your Engine shed work as a great effort.
Great video clip again Julian! Love the attention to detail. I have just purchased a Metcalfe Double Engine shed, which I'll include some of the detail you have used - especially like the idea of having a "pit' recessed so work can be carried out under the loco. I have gone to the Scale Scene website and decided to "have a go' at building something from them - I notice they have a couple of buildings you can print off free of charge, just to see if it works...so printed off a low relief factory frontage to try my hand at it....looks reasonably straightforward, I guess something to be mindful of in costing it, is the use of print ink.
Hi Chris, thank you so kindly for your feedback, and welcome to Station Road. I certainly hope you find inspiration and some ideas in the SR video collection... that is forever growing🙂
Thanks Vincent for your kind words, I'm hoping to install the engine shed later in the week, so fingers crossed I might have an update video this coming weekend.
Really fabulous work Julian love how you made the lamps and lamp shades I really enjoy your videos and seeing your fantastic layout keep up the good work Cheers Pete
Thank you so kindly for your feedback, immensely appreciated. You'll often find me trying to repurpose some object/item in a project, and in this case, the lampshades do look the part, who's to know that actually screw caps.
Hi Terry, thank you kindly for your feedback. It's really only in the last few years that I discovered the importance of the smaller details and how they make such a difference and bring life to a scene.
Thank you for your kind feedback Steve. I'm glad I went for the yellow LEDs as I did have white ones in the draw also, but I think they would have been to harsh and bright. I would say the greatest effort was the initial preparation of prints - printing, mounting and clear coating, and then the cutting, oh boy the cutting!
@@StationRoadModelRailway when you said in the video about blisters and multiple blades I thought ouch that's a whole lot of cutting, especially with the precision you did it at.
@@mrbrown3546 It was a lot of cutting, and I've seen fellow modellers who've built 4 road versions and 8 roof peaks/ridges in length... the amount of cutting would have been astronomical!
Looks amazing Julian, a lot of work and a bit pricey, but when you add it all up, totally worth it. Excellent build, very nicely detailed and the leds look perfect. Top Notch. I also look forward to seeing it on your layout. All the best. Brian
Thank Brian for your kind feedback. I was surprised myself by the total end cost. I know many who build the Scale Scenes kits use cardboard from cereal boxes, shoe boxes and the like, and that would save a few pennies. I, however, bought proper mounting card in the 3 weights required because I wanted the end result to be as good as possible, and this is where the expense comes in, plus the spray mount glue.
Hi Julian, what an excellent build, that engine shed will really look the part. It’s worth taking your time with the Scalescenes kits as they look great if you do them right. I was hoping you’d build one as I really like the way you do things with kits. They are always neat and crisp which is something I try and achieve myself. I built the freighter sometime ago now and it was my first real build, I think I may have chosen the most difficult kit to start with, typical of me!!!! Looking forward to seeing the engine shed on the layout. Cheers Julian, John
Thank you John for your kind feedback. I was wondering if I had picked the most difficult kit, but I've seen some others that make mine look like a walk in the park.
Thanks for your kind words. I've worked with both plastic and card kits, and I still prefer the card kits, mainly because I find them easier to work with, but also because they're more easily adaptable.
Time well spent. Great build, I love the little details, they really make a difference. I’m in N gauge and have been mulling over detailing my Metcalf engine sheds... so you have inspired me. Thank you I appreciate you taking the time to share your skills
Thank you Stephen for your kind feedback. I did model N gauge for a while in my teens (30+ years ago) and even at that age, I found it quite tricky and fiddly. I couldn't imagine trying to replicate what I've done in this project at N gauge, it's tricky enough in OO gauge.
What a great build Julian, certainly worth all the time and effort. Will look forward to seeing it in place on your layout. Cheers Greg from "over the ditch"
Hello from over the ditch and thank you for your kind feedback. Potentially I'll have the shed installed later this week, so maybe a weekend video update might come about.
Thank you for your kind feedback. The yellow LEDs were a bit of a gamble as that's what I had in my draw and I couldn't really have been bothered going down the road to buy more lights, but it all work out okay.
That looks real class Julian ,what a amazing job you have done ,yes a lot of time and effort to make ,but well worth the money for something that you yourself must be delighted with PS I didn't enter the competition thought I would let other subscribers have a go seeing I already have built the brewery metcalfe kit and i also have a part kit because i purchased 2 kits to extend the kit to how I wanted it ,so good luck to all in the draw ,have you got round to adding extra dropper wires to the layout yet , or are you waiting until the extension progresses ,I did mention in 1 of my previous comments about this ,with I think you said you didn't have enough dropper wires on the layout , to get good electrical contact with DCC you really do need quite a few dropper wires ,I look forward to more .Ray .
Thanks Ray for your kind feedback, always appreciated. The additional dropper wires are still a work-in-progress, and where the extension is planned I'm not going to bother until that's all complete. I've also got to rewire all the droppers for the realigned track and depot/yard area... lots to do.
Excellent job Julian, particularly like your lighting solution. Of the $100,how much was the cost of the download to Scalescenes? Congrats on the new subs. Cheers
Hi Chris, thank you for your kind words. The kit was only about $12 to download so very inexpensive. I could have reduced costs by reusing cardboard from old boxes, cereal packets and shoe boxes etc, but I didn't want to compromise on the end result/finish, so proper mounting card was used which cost approx $60. Then there was the spray mount glue, paper and toner use, plus the countless craft blades I went through, so it all added up in the end.
Thank you for the kind feedback. The project occupied the dining table for about a month and I worked on it roughly 2 hours per day (on average), so 60 hours approx.
Great video Can I ask how you did the windows, and also how the rails are supported along the sunken pits as you obviously have removed the sleepers? Thanks
Thanks for your kind words. I totally encourage anyone to give this type of kit a go, the key is to take your time and have a good supply of craft knife blades. The little house on the shelf is a scratch build I made back in the late 80's, it's model on the actual house my folks lived in at the time, all made from card.
That engine shed looks brilliant. In regards to the competition, I had meant to ask in the comments of your last video but I must have forgotten, do you have your heart set on the word 'brewery' following the chosen name for the brewery? By that I mean, could another appropriate word be used instead, for example, rather than "'XYZ' Brewery," would you be opposed to the title "'XYZ' Spirits" or something like that in the same way "Victoria Bitter" is a brand of beer, for instance? I've been brainstorming ideas over the last week or so as to a name and how the title would sound phonetically, and I ask rather than assume because you could well have rolling stock that is quite evidently beer as opposed to wine or spirit, and that mightn't make sense if the brewery were named otherwise. Thanks again for once again another fine video, and I hope you are doing well. :)
Thanks for your kind feedback, and also your query about the brewery name. I would say I'm not opposed to a 'brewery' alternative, for example it could even be ????? Ales. However, my first preference will be ?????? Brewery.
What a great building julian, love your lighting. Yep I know what you mean about how scale scenes lay out their printing, but overall they are very good kits, and when you have completed it's a sense of achievement especially with the custom bits you've done. Keep up the good work I very much enjoy following your progress stay safe Eddy xx
Thank you Eddy for your kind feedback, as always much appreciated. I'm in two minds about whether to rejig the Scales Scenes layout and send it back to them as a suggestion. I reckon with an improved layout where cut lines are shared with elements, they could not only save a considerable amount on cutting, but possible also reduce the number of pages for printing.
I think you've done a very commendable job Julian, the Engine shed looks wonderful! I've always been a fan of the northlight type industrial sheds. Cheers, Joachim
Thank you for your feedback, greatly received. I have a Metcalfe engine shed on the layout, so I was after something a bit different and also a little more modern, 1960ish that is.
Great video of a great build. Your patience is outstanding.
Hi Julian - I have finally started my first Scalescene build in N Gauge which is the coal office and I have been going back over all your Scalescene builds, especially this one.
Absolutely love your latest update by the way.
My only question is that my inkjet printer does not allow me to print onto transparency film.
If I use the Scaleglaze all the frames are in white and pristine which I dont particularly care for.
Like you I will be kit bashing and one of the things I need to do is extend the sides of the engine shed by another four windows.
So if you go to 2:39 in your video I can see the grubby brown windows presumably printed on transparency film.
I was wondering if I printed them straight onto thin paper would it make much of a difference doing it that way especially as I am working in N gauge.
Regards Chris
I'm quite impressed with the results of printed paper and cardstock. Very realistic looking. I love the lights! Good job!
Thanks Jim for your kind feedback. Yes, I think it shows that card/printed kits are a worthy addition to the layout, the key is to take your time and be as precise as possible, and the outcome can be quite pleasing.
The lighting and shed look great. I'm impressed that you have your own railway room and you get to use the dining room. You need to get your Mrs to do a video on matrimonial tolerance. I'll make sure Mrs T watches it!!
Thanks Alan for your kind feedback. The irony is if I worked on the build in the garage (which is a bit cold this time of year), the Mrs would complain that she never sees me. So I see working on the dining room table as doubly beneficial, it's much warmer inside and the Mrs gets to see me:)
Julian, you are a very skilful modeller! Brilliant engine shed! I can never make card kits look this good! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for your kind feedback. Card kits can be tricky to achieve a convincing result, but two important factors help in obtaining the best possible outcome, one is to take your time - these kits can't be rushed, and the other is to use good quality materials and tools.
Julian your time spent building and modifying has done you credit ,plus the bits and pieces clutter in really makes your Engine shed work as a great effort.
Thank you for your kind feedback, it is the smaller details that bring the scene to life.
Great video clip again Julian! Love the attention to detail. I have just purchased a Metcalfe Double Engine shed, which I'll include some of the detail you have used - especially like the idea of having a "pit' recessed so work can be carried out under the loco. I have gone to the Scale Scene website and decided to "have a go' at building something from them - I notice they have a couple of buildings you can print off free of charge, just to see if it works...so printed off a low relief factory frontage to try my hand at it....looks reasonably straightforward, I guess something to be mindful of in costing it, is the use of print ink.
Great video and great build Julian. It will look great on the railroad. Kevin
Thank you Kevin, with any luck, the shed will be installed on the layout by the weekend, and potentially in time for an update video.
Hi first of many to come videos. I really like your approach to the lights and your builds modifications. And yes I subed today, Chris
Hi Chris, thank you so kindly for your feedback, and welcome to Station Road. I certainly hope you find inspiration and some ideas in the SR video collection... that is forever growing🙂
Great build Julian, looking forward to see the shed working on your layout.
Thanks Vincent for your kind words, I'm hoping to install the engine shed later in the week, so fingers crossed I might have an update video this coming weekend.
Really fabulous work Julian love how you made the lamps and lamp shades I really enjoy your videos and seeing your fantastic layout keep up the good work Cheers Pete
Thank you so kindly for your feedback, immensely appreciated. You'll often find me trying to repurpose some object/item in a project, and in this case, the lampshades do look the part, who's to know that actually screw caps.
Good morning Julian. I think that looks fantastic. Love the detail inside and a very clever idea of wiring up the led lights for the roof.
Hi Terry, thank you kindly for your feedback. It's really only in the last few years that I discovered the importance of the smaller details and how they make such a difference and bring life to a scene.
Looks fantastic, the effort must have been huge.
The lights look about right too, like the old style hi-bay lights, they had a yellow tint to boot.
Thank you for your kind feedback Steve. I'm glad I went for the yellow LEDs as I did have white ones in the draw also, but I think they would have been to harsh and bright. I would say the greatest effort was the initial preparation of prints - printing, mounting and clear coating, and then the cutting, oh boy the cutting!
@@StationRoadModelRailway when you said in the video about blisters and multiple blades I thought ouch that's a whole lot of cutting, especially with the precision you did it at.
@@mrbrown3546 It was a lot of cutting, and I've seen fellow modellers who've built 4 road versions and 8 roof peaks/ridges in length... the amount of cutting would have been astronomical!
Hi julian the engine shed looks fantastic -great job 😎😎😎
Thanks Mike, as always, your kind feedback is greatly received.
Looks amazing Julian, a lot of work and a bit pricey, but when you add it all up, totally worth it. Excellent build, very nicely detailed and the leds look perfect. Top Notch. I also look forward to seeing it on your layout. All the best. Brian
Thank Brian for your kind feedback. I was surprised myself by the total end cost. I know many who build the Scale Scenes kits use cardboard from cereal boxes, shoe boxes and the like, and that would save a few pennies. I, however, bought proper mounting card in the 3 weights required because I wanted the end result to be as good as possible, and this is where the expense comes in, plus the spray mount glue.
@@StationRoadModelRailway very true, you done what essentially was needed to have a solid and long lasting structure. It shows, looks amazing. 😎
As you say Julian and great deal of work. You obviously have a lot of patience but the end result is superb, well done.
I had a lot of patience but the same couldn't be said for the family... lol. Thanks Peter for your kind words, much appreciated.
Hi Julian, what an excellent build, that engine shed will really look the part. It’s worth taking your time with the Scalescenes kits as they look great if you do them right. I was hoping you’d build one as I really like the way you do things with kits. They are always neat and crisp which is something I try and achieve myself. I built the freighter sometime ago now and it was my first real build, I think I may have chosen the most difficult kit to start with, typical of me!!!! Looking forward to seeing the engine shed on the layout. Cheers Julian, John
Thank you John for your kind feedback. I was wondering if I had picked the most difficult kit, but I've seen some others that make mine look like a walk in the park.
Came up a treat! Well done.
Very impressive work, shows what you can do with cardboard kits and TLC...
Great lighting effects as well, kep up the good work!
Thanks for your kind words. I've worked with both plastic and card kits, and I still prefer the card kits, mainly because I find them easier to work with, but also because they're more easily adaptable.
That looks great. Great detail. Typical of the work you do.
Time well spent. Great build, I love the little details, they really make a difference. I’m in N gauge and have been mulling over detailing my Metcalf engine sheds... so you have inspired me. Thank you I appreciate you taking the time to share your skills
Thank you Stephen for your kind feedback. I did model N gauge for a while in my teens (30+ years ago) and even at that age, I found it quite tricky and fiddly. I couldn't imagine trying to replicate what I've done in this project at N gauge, it's tricky enough in OO gauge.
It's amazing what someone can do with some card and paper! Very nice!
What a great build Julian, certainly worth all the time and effort. Will look forward to seeing it in place on your layout. Cheers Greg from "over the ditch"
Hello from over the ditch and thank you for your kind feedback. Potentially I'll have the shed installed later this week, so maybe a weekend video update might come about.
Great build on the shed love your lighting
Thank you for your kind feedback. The yellow LEDs were a bit of a gamble as that's what I had in my draw and I couldn't really have been bothered going down the road to buy more lights, but it all work out okay.
@@StationRoadModelRailwaythey look fab
Awesome job Julian!!! Thanks for sharing this video. Cheers Onno.
Thanks Onno, as always, I greatly appreciate your kind feedback.
Morning Julian great build and will be a great addition to Station Road in the future, look forward to seeing it being sited on the layout.
Hi Steve, hows our fluffy kiwi friend doing? With any luck, I might be posting a video update this weekend with the shed installed.
Hi Julian, Kev's fine still sat with his mates on the stairs. I will keep my eyes open for your update notification. Cheers Steve
That looks real class Julian ,what a amazing job you have done ,yes a lot of time and effort to make ,but well worth the money for something that you yourself must be delighted with PS I didn't enter the competition thought I would let other subscribers have a go seeing I already have built the brewery metcalfe kit and i also have a part kit because i purchased 2 kits to extend the kit to how I wanted it ,so good luck to all in the draw ,have you got round to adding extra dropper wires to the layout yet , or are you waiting until the extension progresses ,I did mention in 1 of my previous comments about this ,with I think you said you didn't have enough dropper wires on the layout , to get good electrical contact with DCC you really do need quite a few dropper wires ,I look forward to more .Ray .
Thanks Ray for your kind feedback, always appreciated. The additional dropper wires are still a work-in-progress, and where the extension is planned I'm not going to bother until that's all complete. I've also got to rewire all the droppers for the realigned track and depot/yard area... lots to do.
Fantastic end result looks so realistic definitely worth all the hard work 👍
Thank you for your kind feedback, much appreciated.
thats an absolutely slammin engine house. well done!
Excellent job Julian, particularly like your lighting solution. Of the $100,how much was the cost of the download to Scalescenes? Congrats on the new subs. Cheers
Hi Chris, thank you for your kind words. The kit was only about $12 to download so very inexpensive. I could have reduced costs by reusing cardboard from old boxes, cereal packets and shoe boxes etc, but I didn't want to compromise on the end result/finish, so proper mounting card was used which cost approx $60. Then there was the spray mount glue, paper and toner use, plus the countless craft blades I went through, so it all added up in the end.
@@StationRoadModelRailway thanks for the reply Julian 👍
you did a fantastic job Julian looks great how long did it take to build?
Thank you for the kind feedback. The project occupied the dining table for about a month and I worked on it roughly 2 hours per day (on average), so 60 hours approx.
Great video
Can I ask how you did the windows, and also how the rails are supported along the sunken pits as you obviously have removed the sleepers?
Thanks
Very nice work indeed.
Thank you for a great video.
That looks awesome! I really want to make something like that myself now! Haha!
What is the little White House on your shelf? Is that scratch built?
Thanks for your kind words. I totally encourage anyone to give this type of kit a go, the key is to take your time and have a good supply of craft knife blades. The little house on the shelf is a scratch build I made back in the late 80's, it's model on the actual house my folks lived in at the time, all made from card.
absolutely brilliant :)
That engine shed looks brilliant.
In regards to the competition, I had meant to ask in the comments of your last video but I must have forgotten, do you have your heart set on the word 'brewery' following the chosen name for the brewery? By that I mean, could another appropriate word be used instead, for example, rather than "'XYZ' Brewery," would you be opposed to the title "'XYZ' Spirits" or something like that in the same way "Victoria Bitter" is a brand of beer, for instance?
I've been brainstorming ideas over the last week or so as to a name and how the title would sound phonetically, and I ask rather than assume because you could well have rolling stock that is quite evidently beer as opposed to wine or spirit, and that mightn't make sense if the brewery were named otherwise.
Thanks again for once again another fine video, and I hope you are doing well.
:)
Thanks for your kind feedback, and also your query about the brewery name. I would say I'm not opposed to a 'brewery' alternative, for example it could even be ????? Ales. However, my first preference will be ?????? Brewery.
Fantastic :-)
Hi there. Just confirming that you glued the prints to card then sprayed with varnish? Thanks.
Yes, that is correct. Thank you.
Hi julian another great video mate did you get my email from the uk of photos of my layout and my second email ? Julian please let my know clive
Hi Clive, yes got your email and just replied, a great layout you have. Take care, J