I feel like sharing this and expect a bit of merriment at my expense 
I may be the perp-etrator of the Newbie & Family Railway Co. but I'm not the sole perp-rietor*... my getting to buy nice trains is conditional on the family being happy. And if the kids want to help me make scenery and play with trains, rather than demanding more screen time they're not going to get, this takes priority over any dreams I might have of 100% faithful recreations of real times and places. (I have a lot of admiration for people who do that stuff well, but I don't get to do it right now).
I can't start a permanent outdoor railway 'til my yard stops being a building site (shifted 600+kg of debris out of it on Saturday, which is a start, but that's another story) so we all agreed some temporary buildings were needed, starting with station platforms so the passengers have somewhere to go. Since I need to be able to pack this stuff up I thought a "chibi" compressed/cutesy scale was a better bet than breaking out the real 1:22.5 scale ruler, and I thought finishing something was better than perfection. (I'm a bit proud of the fretwork platform canopy fringe, though). So, here's the first of a set of modular platforms that fit the inside of the awkwardly tight R1 curves we currently rely on... with a little help and a fair bit of design input from the smaller Newbies, who also had very strong ideas about what sort of passengers were appropriate for us.
Incidentally, I found a good trick for the curved platform front. It's made from an odd sort of balsa-in-card-sandwich blockboard I remember buying speculatively from a modelshop I don't really get to visit any more. I cut vertical slits in the back, evenly spaced every cm or so, so it could easily take up a relatively steady curve. I wish I'd taken a work-in-progress shot, will of the next one if there's any interest.
*(since you're never going to let me live this silly name down I'm going to jolly well own it)
I may be the perp-etrator of the Newbie & Family Railway Co. but I'm not the sole perp-rietor*... my getting to buy nice trains is conditional on the family being happy. And if the kids want to help me make scenery and play with trains, rather than demanding more screen time they're not going to get, this takes priority over any dreams I might have of 100% faithful recreations of real times and places. (I have a lot of admiration for people who do that stuff well, but I don't get to do it right now).I can't start a permanent outdoor railway 'til my yard stops being a building site (shifted 600+kg of debris out of it on Saturday, which is a start, but that's another story) so we all agreed some temporary buildings were needed, starting with station platforms so the passengers have somewhere to go. Since I need to be able to pack this stuff up I thought a "chibi" compressed/cutesy scale was a better bet than breaking out the real 1:22.5 scale ruler, and I thought finishing something was better than perfection. (I'm a bit proud of the fretwork platform canopy fringe, though). So, here's the first of a set of modular platforms that fit the inside of the awkwardly tight R1 curves we currently rely on... with a little help and a fair bit of design input from the smaller Newbies, who also had very strong ideas about what sort of passengers were appropriate for us.
Incidentally, I found a good trick for the curved platform front. It's made from an odd sort of balsa-in-card-sandwich blockboard I remember buying speculatively from a modelshop I don't really get to visit any more. I cut vertical slits in the back, evenly spaced every cm or so, so it could easily take up a relatively steady curve. I wish I'd taken a work-in-progress shot, will of the next one if there's any interest.
*(since you're never going to let me live this silly name down I'm going to jolly well own it)
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