Modeling A Gas Works-Tips For Kitbashing Structures

[@eastcoastrailroad8209]

Great video and it gave me some great ideas

[@andrewstevenson5449]

A fourth (fifth?) method of doing the mortar: I've successfully (well, I thought it was a success) used white ink (available from graphic design supplies shops) for the mortar lines on plastic brick walls - you just dab it on, and it spreads along the lines by capillary action, and you just wipe off any excess. Very thinned down paint works too, but I've always found white India ink that little bit more effective. Another tip I've picked up over the years when kitbashing is to use plastic cement as a filler for small gaps (some kits that have been in production for decades either weren't designed as accurately as today, or the moulds themselves have worn), and then - as you say - scribe in the brick work etc. Sometimes it can be quite useful to keep a separate pot of liquid cement into which you put small shavings/filings/trimmings of plastic, to thicken it up. I was surprised the Wills brick sheets matched your Concor kit so well in size. For HO modelling, I often prefer to use British N gauge brick sheets.

[@wjstix]

I was surprised to learn recently that GWR had a number of coaches with gas lighting as late as the 1930s or even early 1940s. GWR had specialized cars for hauling gas to remote areas for restocking the coaches.

[@UKModelRailways]

There used to be several kits for those cordon gas wagons. I think there may still be one available on Shapeways.