Sheds on BBB&MC Rwy

[Rowan Bravington]

Design and construction has begun on a section of the Bravington, Buln Buln and Muddy Creek Railway.

The plan. Drawn with great 'accuracy and detail' on a Post-it Note. Three interconnected sheds built, supposedly, over a number of years - a brick/stone structure, a half-open timber shed, and an open shed with a bit of corrugated iron on the flat roof.

The foundations and the loco's over which the sheds will be built. The foundation on this side consists of a piece of 3/8" square timber about 2 metres long, carefully measured and placed between the main track and the siding, so that it can be easily adjusted when the first loco or train clips it as it goes by....

The windows on the wall of the first section - to be a brick wall with a stone base - have been drawn on a piece of matte board - to be carefully cut out with a craft knife.

The completed window sections cut out and placed temporarily to see how it looks. The idea is to be able to see the loco's in the shed - hence the large windows. (Apols for the blurry pic - too much Shiraz Cabernet ?)


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[penylanpip]

"can be easily adjusted when the first loco or train clips it as it goes by..."
I see you have adopted my long-established planning discipline - and so posh, blueprints as well.

"too much Shiraz Cabernet?"
Nonsense! Blame it on the camera like the rest of us.

I have been wanting a large shed, perhaps a couple of Piko 'Sonneberg' kits, but fear I would damage the locos inside due to poor sighting.
Your large windows should solve that and I will watch progress with interest.

 

[Rowan Bravington]

All windows have been cut out now.
Trialing of stencil painting for walls has begun. I think the black stone on grey look better than the other.
A full paint will be made on the rear section of wall to see how it might look on the finished model. (The rear wall can not be seen by the 'viewer')

The walls temporarily in place.


A trial of the stencil for the stone-work. Black stone...

Grey stone.

 

[PhilP]

Certainly more contrast with the black on grey..
You could compromise.. Use the grey, with black 'weathering' from passing traffic on the lower portion?

 

[Rowan Bravington]

Certainly more contrast with the black on grey..
You could compromise.. Use the grey, with black 'weathering' from passing traffic on the lower portion?

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion PhilP....... However, things did not go well today. The 'test' rear wall came out ok, but the planned visible front wall was a disaster. Bleeding paint through the stencil, oversprays/smudges, poor coverage etc. So, a decision was taken to use the test rear wall on the front and place the other wall, paint side in on the rear.
I have added windows sills etc to the front wall, and cut out the doors.


The disastrous wall..
Next step is to add some strengthening to the roof and walls, make the roof, add some glazing to the front wall, a few down pipes, maybe some doors, a chimney or two, and we're done.

 

[Rowan Bravington]

Final post of this shed construction:

The roof trusses are complete and test fit to the walls.

The roof pieces have been cobbled together and again a test fit is undertaken. Sky-lights windows have been cut out to provide light into the building and to soften the 'look ' of the large roof.

The roofing 'tiles' have been cut from a piece of thin card with fancy craft scissors and gluing to the roof is shown here.

Glazing added to roof, extractor chimneys installed and roof painted.

An extractor fan cover was added to the side wall to add interest. It is from the inside of a used coffee pod.
The shed weathered and installed.

 

[Jasper]

Very nice, Rowan.
Interesting what you tell about the fancy scissors. I remember someone in a similar situation cutting and gluing individual tiles.

 

[Rowan Bravington]

Hi Jasper, I guess it depends on whether the gluer-onerer has the time and patience...
I have neither. And I try to work to the 10 foot rule (even in metric Australia). If it looks good at 10 feet away, it;s okay !

 

[Jasper]

That's scale feet, not real feet, right?

 

[Rowan Bravington]

No, real feet.
And if the job seems to be a bit dodgy, then I take my glasses off.....and it still looks ok.

 

[Jasper]

And if the job seems to be a bit dodgy, then I take my glasses off.....and it still looks ok.

Haha! Haven't tried that one yet.

 

[Rowan Bravington]

An additional shed has been painstakingly designed and construction begun.
This will be a tar-roofed twin-shed supported by thin timbers to be joined by a 'substantial' cover between the two to provide weather-proof access.
Pictured here in trial format - the whole collapsing shortly after the picture was taken ...........

The shed (con-currently under construction) to the right of this 'structure' will be supported by log timbers - also very likely to collapse if looked at sideways.......

 

[Rowan Bravington]

An update..........
'Sub-structure' has been installed and cross-beams added for stability.
Here it is waiting for the glue to dry.
Another chardy please bar-keep, whilst we wait.........

 

[Rowan Bravington]

Rooves installed, and below the erection of the poles and cross beams for the final shed (No 1)

 

[Rowan Bravington]

The roof has been worked on........ It was going to be a curved affair. However I realized that curving corrugated cardboard may not turn out too well.... So the roof was straightened. (Probably more in keeping with the 'story' that this was the first-built shed - using posts from the scrub - with the others coming later)

 

[Jasper]

This "story" of the sheds having been built in different times, accounting for their contrasting styles, is very prototypical! Keep going, Rowan. I'm enjoying this.

 

[Rowan Bravington]

Thanks Jasper, and others who have 'liked' these posts.
The roofing has been installed on the 'oldest' shed.
And signage designed and temporarily installed.


The signage close-up. The timber for these signs was taken this afternoon from the tree hanging over the back fence (over my vege patch!!) and from a Hawthorn tree elsewhere in the garden, then carefully milled and sanded....

The middle shed No 2 - shown below - has also had some temp. signs installed. The design team has unfortunately forgotten the reason for the centre roof part - perhaps it's for the pidgins?

Finally, the stone shed has some signs on it - to reflect the era in which it may have been built.

Still quite a bit of weathering/painting and detail adding to be done. Sadly, that may have to wait awhile as we depart for Copenhagen on Sunday.

 

[Jasper]

The center roof part of Shed Two is, I think, a bell tower. To warn of the danger of an approaching train, perhaps?

 

[PhilP]

Or smoke vent?

 

[Jasper]

Or a clock.