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It looks great!
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Once you have finished Barry and me will come up with another idea.
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Re: WEST ORTON

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Great job as usual Steve - certainly looks the business and all comes together nicely with the detail that you already added.
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I was right Steve - they look absolutely spot on, a great job. It would be a real shame to cover it all in corrugated cladding, I’d fancy a semi derelict look.

Appreciate the posting of the step by step construction, I’ll be taking a few ideas from that, thank you.
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Not sure how yet, but I hope to make a corrugated shell that just sits on the trusses but lifts off to reveal the grime underneath.
But first the lights. ;)
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You have done a great job there Steve - it looks very good indeed.
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Re: WEST ORTON

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Steve. Someone has pinched more than the lead of the roof. :roll: :)

Seriously. Really well done.

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Re: WEST ORTON

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Completed the lighting but have yet to decide if the ‘fluorescent tubes’ will be removed or not.
The lights are made from small steel washers ‘domed’ with a ballpein hammer with the head of a rivet glued inside for the ‘tail’. Prewired SMD LEDs complete each fixture which is then soldered to two brass rods that run the length of each roof.

Image20221207_151500 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

The main roof cladding has been started using South East Finecast sheets cut and glued into lengths. The ridge is a strip of foil from a disposable serving tray with a suitable bend down the middle. I did try making one section from individual panels without success and had to fall back on one-piece sections. ,ay be able to do something to represent individual panels with the airbrush when I paint it.

Image20221207_151416 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr
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Done it again Steve. Great.
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Agreed - astonishing degree of realism. R-
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