It is a pretty simple construction, 4 walls, 3 windows, a door, floor (with base of lever frame) and the levers. It was all put together in a matter of 40 minutes. Since I want to be able to run (and photograph) the layout in darkness, lights are going to be placed in some of the buildings, this signal cabin was the first to be built.
It has two grain of wheat bulb lights, a white one is glued 'hanging' from the roof and another is a outdoor light on the door end of the building. When a light is lit inside a building, all of the bare walls and empty floors are shown. so I cut a few pieces of plasticard and made a stove (which it's chimney hides the wires for the lights) a instrument shelf and a large token machine (similar to the Ffestiniog Railway's Minffordd-Rhiw Goch or Rhiw Goch-Tan Y Bwlch token machines).
This was all glued together, painted, and a garden added on a cardboard base, which will be glued on to the baseboard before scenic work. The body shell is removable from the base for now; it will be glued down once the base is secured to the baseboard.
These are the photos of the finished Signal cabin and garden.
Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.
The bottom photo is very atmospheric. I particularly like the light shining though the crack by the edge of the door.
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