New Layout Build - Adding interiors, lights & detail to the office building

[@EverardJunction]

Happy New Year to you all! Thanks for all the support and interest in the layout during 2019. I still can't get to grips with how many are interested in a layout in the attic! When I started in 2010 I'd never have thought there would be 57k people following me in 2019. It's very much appreciated. As always I'll be back with more progress in 2020, Cheers

[@tracya4087]

all the very best from wigan

[@e020443]

And a happy 2020 to you and yours from the snowy mountains of Arizona.

[@BrewsAndMk2s]

See you next year Richard!.. have a good one!. All the best from Scotland

[@eugeniomarins2936]

Happy 2020 from your admirers in Brazil! (Hot as hell here in Rio...) Your channel is the best i have encoutered, educational AND entertaining, and, the best feature, IMHO, it is about the modelling, not the modeller... Cheers!

[@righteyeblink8996]

✨✨🚂🚂🚂🌭🌭🐱‍🏍

[@royfearn4345]

Arguably much more interesting than many model railway exhibitions!

[@thomream1888]

What a great job on this building! I think it would be a great place for a couple of railfans on top of the building watching the action. Lemme see, tripod, ice chest (keep the root beer ice-cold!), maybe a lawn chair or two. Great action right there!

[@MrTrustafox]

It must be lovely for the telephone operators while reading their newspapers can also listen to the splashes, grunts and plops coming through the egg-box doors of the lavatory block!

[@railroadmillion681]

I really like your layout. I'm an American but have an interest in British Trains as well as American ones. Your videos give me inspiration for my own layout.

[@gbjanuary]

Railroad Million American town layout and junction would be interesting.

[@philtowle4683]

I remember going to a model railway exhibition at my dads work the post office AGD in Chesterfield and thought the modelling was amazing. I satrted buying bits as a kid but never had the skills to put anything together. My dad bought loads of rolling stock but never did anything with them. A few years ago I started buying items again and need to make a start when I get chance, if I get 50% the effect you have I will be happy.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Nobody’s ever gonna see that interior, but it’s gonna add a hell offa lot of extra detail, I like doing that in my stuff.

[@phillwhitehead2414]

It must take a passion and vision to detail all that you have achieved

[@mjsdecember1990]

The police will catch up with that transit just wait that road loops back around

[@Northstander]

As we are something like 25k Police Officers short in the UK I wouldn't bank on it happening any time soon!

[@lord_scrubington]

@@Northstander r/woosh

[@Stettafire]

@@lord_scrubington You sir are the one who missed the joke. The commentary appended a new joke onto OPs one. It's funny cus it's true

[@lord_scrubington]

@@Stettafire oh god, you're right IDK how I missed that XD

[@Aladdin_TV]

Beautiful!! I love your channel and I have soon watched everything. The only thing I did not like was the toilet. I think it would have looked better with the door facing the window, at least one door. But as the rest of your stuff, beautiful. I am 60 years old and what difference this is comparing to my Märklin 50years ago. A circle and a few bags of green coloured powder poured over the area. I find it amazing on how I can enjoy your work and the best, your voice narrate the progress. I just relax watching the wonders.

[@trentharrison8356]

The algorithm has delivered me here today to just say that one thing I've found, which really, really, sells a model, is the sound. It really puts you "in" the model. Also, a realistic light source that casts nice shadows also helps. Wonderful work you do!

[@Gus-jb8cm]

Another great video. I noted no rooftop hatch on top. As long as no one is going to jump of the roof!!! Nice building Richard. 👍👍

[@patleclerc7227]

The building turned out very nice. Mirrors will look good in the karate room. Maybe a punching bag/dummy would be a nice addition also. Great video, fun to watch.

[@MrTrustafox]

Its got a feel of Thunderbirds are Go about it! Thunderbird 1 could be landing on the roof. You say you aren't an expert but you are an expert in the EJ world!

[@mathewrufrano7833]

Extraordinary! Don’t know size of 10 pence coin but guess it’s size of US Quarter. Fantastic results working with such small items.

[@gbjanuary]

Internal office is very impressive and I like the data base shop with compaq poster in window.

[@moomin3430]

loved the cinamatic opening to this. Thanks a lot! glad to be one of the 57k that are following you develop this layout. All your work is amazing. I just wish I had the time and dedication that you do.

[@Jakeey154]

That opening is just brilliant 😁😂

[@brianartillery]

Those scale newspapers would look great spread across the top of the dashboard of a builder's Ford Transit van.

[@thetwogardens6048]

Amazing work . Love the Creativity ! Wonderful !

[@kevelliott]

Looks fantastic! Just a further idea about small retail businesses in the 80s: video rental shops. Pre-Blockbusters, they were small, local entrepreneurs, usually with just the one shop, sometimes doubling as an off licence or a corner shop. Also, maybe KP Foods could have a couple of smelly black plastic refuse sacks outside its side door?

[@danstransportspots]

PC Plodd. That'll never get old!! :D Intro was absolutely fabulous, thank you very much!

[@mick9885]

Great job Richard 👍 Looking forward to seeing the Station Build,

[@stephenleary1239]

Brilliant Richard...always look forward to your videos..

[@oddities-whatnot]

Brilliant. All good harmless fun.

[@airspotters3487]

Setting the pace for sure. An inspiration for many....10/10

[@7APT7]

Hi Richard Superb attention to detail, it wasn’t till you put your rings by the fridge, you realise what scale size you are working with, even the cardboard boxes looked real to. Kitchen looked great once it was completed. Great work by a professional modeller. Huge 👍 Thumbs Up 👍

[@DeanPark]

Call the Sweeney!! Your'e nicked! lol! Lovely. Thanks for the shout out mate. I am really glad you took inspiration from my layout as I have taken so much from yours over the years. Dave

[@UKRailsandMore]

Marvellous stuff Richard, thanks for sharing, regards, Paul

[@marksawyer5299]

Staff Turnover..Good one! Keep these coming as you can. I'm sure this take's a huge amount of time to produces what you do for us. I for one..really appreciate it! Looking forward to 2020. Thanks. Mark

[@jackhromadka6842]

10 years of your railway! Congrats!

[@gatekeeper1024]

all you need parked down the side of the electronics shop is a robin reliant that would be amazing :)

[@51ubetcha]

Great detail with the building. Brings life to the layout. Now need to add street lights to the area for night running.

[@markwilson8002]

Blinking brilliant once again.

[@Taliesin6]

i'm missing 2 typical 80's things in the office, fax machines and ashtrays! 🤣

[@nonexxlaxel1256]

Just amazing. I love it. Keep the awesome work. Greetings.

[@Vman7757]

Wow! Thank you for sharing.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Great modelling.

[@tonyslight826]

Very clever indeed nice one mate.

[@mellowfellow6816]

Lots of cardboard boxes because they're all packing up and moving out to the new trading estate on the edge of town because they are sick of all the crime in this area... Thanks for sharing your inspiring hobby work with us, and Happy New Year

[@darren25061965]

Love the AMIGA posters, I still have a sizeable collection of these computers in the loft.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Darren Marshall that’s cool!

[@wilfwilson72]

Loved the intro.. in keeping with your 80’s theme... always enjoy your updates looking forward to future ones

[@grahammummery5732]

Super job as always Richard.. Roll on Station work!

[@sitearm]

in 2019 favorite channel viewing activity: watching model paint dry in 2020 new favorite: watching model lights turn on and off 😁 all time favorite channel quotes: "I'm quite pleased with it." and "Of course there are a few more bits and pieces to add." happy new year! ty for posting : )

[@MikeB_UK]

Love the robbery scene. Great vids. Great layout. Thanks for all the hard work making the videos. The effort does not go unnoticed. Hope 2020 is a good one for you.

[@PhilipBrown1967]

Great films I've been watching the new build from the beginning, ii even got the urge to build another one now, but got nowhere room, the attic is way to low, so thinking of something smaller which can be put away, thanks for uploadin

[@billrichardson6389]

Thank you for all your videos, happy new year and all the best from Victoria Australia.

[@lizzyt2490]

Love the fact you used warm white LEDs instead of the blueish white onces most people use. The blueish ones look too much like doctors office or hospital lighting. Keep up the excellant work!

[@JamesNagington]

Brilliant job as always. Just got a small suggestion and not critical by any means but maybe up the side wall of the cafe you could add one of those catering extracter things that go up the side of the building. It looks awesome as it is but you always go the extra mile for detail and perfection. Great job happy New year

[@modelrailwaynoob]

As always an inspiration Richard. You were my first model railway tutor :) Two years on, I am still learning. Well done on the offices buildings. It looks really impressive and I loved your intro.

[@MalcolmCrabbe]

A few years back I designed a PCB around a PIC micro that controlled the lighting in my wife's dolls house. I'm sure with the addition of an Arduino, 16 channel PWM "servo" board and a clock module and you could set up each room to automatically come on or turn off at preset times. The servo board would allow you to set the individual brightness for each LED too. - Excellent video, and look forward to seeing the layout develop further in 2020

[@francis1247]

Best wishes joy and happiness for 2020 thanks for being what you are and the inspiration you bring to us. All the best Richard (a French fan from la Réunion )

[@highdownmartin]

Homage to the sweeney. Nicely done. Got the Tom? Nah, but I nearly got a fridge

[@jonwilliams40]

Great job on the office building, it looks fantastic. The attention to detail makes all the difference and the lighting is the cherry on the cake. You could add a couple of those tiny rusty alarm boxes with a flashing LED or two as it is an insurance companies office and with the computer shop on the ground floor. Looking forward to seeing the Karate club come on. Great video as usual, exciting 2019, roll on 2020 and that station build, can’t wait. Happy new year Richard. Cheers, Jon.

[@sub39h]

Honestly your eye for detail is astounding. Once again another fantastic addition to your already brilliant layout. I can’t wait to see what you have planned for your station. HNY and Happy Modelling for 2020.

[@fiveminuteman]

Love it. Only things i can think of are illuminated signs with led or perhaps wall mounted street lights on corners of building.

[@eugeniomarins2936]

I needed some difuse LEDs but could not find them, so i used fine sandpaper on the hi emission ones i had, to make the plastic translucid, with good results.

[@MattBFreq3]

Great work once again! I really like the way this building has developed. Good to see you've got some Amiga 500s advertised and some pics taken from the Amiga magazines back then. It would have been cool if you'd have made the shop a branch of SRS Computer Systems which I know sold Amigas in Watford back then ;-) That Amiga Computing magazine with the Terminator-style face on takes me back as well. I still have that very magazine from the early 90s. A bit more detail on the roof would be great as well. Try putting a satellite dish and a few more ariels up there, and maybe a few pigeons for good measure as well :-)

[@freightuk]

Chart: Staff Turnover, brilliant! Happy New Year Richard, Jim

[@mickd6942]

Great effect with the lighting

[@NathanielKempson]

Minitur Wunderland, eat your heart out! This is looking fabulous now! So impresive! We thought the old layout was well detailed XD

[@giulius7176]

Great detail work....and I loved the Intro!!!

[@JaguarProJoe]

The intro is soo good

[@Xantec]

@EverardJunction I love the cut scene at the front BRILLIANT!

[@markonmotoring]

Once again your attention to detail really sets your modeling apart. Great little intro too.

[@Crimsonedge1]

That was a nice little opening... A good break from the norm of most channels that just match train sounds to a train passing by... :D

[@cyberleaderandy1]

In Burton on trent there's a building like that that has insurance on the lower floor and a Karate / Judo club on the top floor. Massive coincidence 😀Once thing that build does have is an external fire escape.

[@NickandFoxydog]

I bought a Commodore Vic 20 from that shop. It was rubbish. Fantastic building Richard. Great video. Happy NY.

[@RichardWilson1984]

Genius introduction and love the name Farce Insurance. The Karate Club would look good with just big white letters stuck on windows

[@dickygeemusic]

For those of us of a 'certain age' we remember the era well. I started work for NSE in 89... so the era you depict.

[@AntoekneeDE]

Love the robbery sequence. And the Amiga posters. Exceptional

[@martinpattison4018]

Taking the time and thinking through ideas and then making them into models, give you the results you were looking for., I think it has turned very good indeed. I like watching videos of this type and is show me would can be done. Planing, making and then finishings. Too modern for me, it has given me some ideas for the interior of a manor house I am making. Martin. (Happy New Year, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

[@thomashinerman2626]

Good Day Richard. I hope your Christmas was everything that you had wished for. Another great video. Nice work on the building. I'm sure it will add even more interest to your layout. I would hope that you have been a good boy this year and that Santa stopped by and left some new additions for you to work your magic with. I look forward to some new videos. Please keep up with the wonderful work you keep posting. All the best to you and yours for 2020.

[@joerotchell4882]

Amazing and inspirational cheers Richard long may you continue.

[@peterells1720]

This is brilliant! But to someone who fusses over minuscule details of the roof vents of diesel locomotives, I'd like to point out that "Farce" is hardly a "prototypical" name for an insurance company. Happy New Year, Peter

[@MatthewDawkinsUK]

Great bit of lighting there, definitely adds to the realism. Something I've just begun trying out is using a colour-changing LED lightbulb so I can create different ambient lighting conditions across the layout. For example, I can get an orange glow for sunrise/sunset, a dim blue for a moonlit night, that kind of thing. I'd definitely recommend you look into that, as it would complement your building lighting nicely I think.

Yes! Another video - watching this in the early hours as we had people round for new year, so came back to watch as soon as I could!

[@BlackWolfessUSCM]

Like that toliet block. I just started putting the interior detailing together on my main station building now tht my lighting inside is done. Gives me an idea for a statrting point. awesome

[@1BCamden]

trust you and your family had a safe and joyful Christmas, all the best for the New Year

[@colblimp]

What a superb intro! Another fab video.

[@raymondrion6712]

Nice work,great detail,keep up the great modeling.

[@JoeG-firehousewhiskey]

amazing job on the interior of that building

[@martinfinbow2120]

The Building looks fantastic. Have you considered using a decoder to control the room lights? This would allow you to create the effect of the fluoresent tube flicker on start up.

[@InterCity134]

Brilliant. One thing missing from those office desks is (I assume in the UK they had these as they did in the US and Germany) the massive tomes that were the phone books or directories that were printed by the phone companies that had the business listings (yellow pages in the US) or white pages for individual names and numbers; often combined into one large book.

[@f1goalie]

Awesome work. I’ve learned a few thing and inspired some ideas in my head for my future projects

[@IANinALTONA]

Happy New Year, Everard Junction.

[@YaknCamp]

Great building. 🚐🚓🏢

[@mandylee4166]

Hi there I have been watching this build since before you took the old one apart and will continue watching for as long as it takes you to finish I hope you don't finish to soon as they are great to watch. Many thanks for the update can't wait to see more.👍👍

[@philipkeogan3550]

Happy New Year to you too, We appreciate the time you spend in doing the video's. Thank you

[@timbrennan4110]

tHE BUILDING LOOKS GOOD AND LOVED THE INTRO AT THE BEGINNING

[@GalgormHall]

Fantastic results Richard, I can only look forward to what you put these skills to next. The station perhaps?! Paul

[@ThePhosphater]

Thanks for posting so many interesting videos of your layout, great layout. Love the building. Happy new year

[@MTNRailroadingNC]

Excellent work! A suggest for an added bit of interest. Hook it to an Arduino or other microcontroller to randomize the lights turning on and off.

[@garylewis1422]

Fantastic 👍

[@bobwestwood7824]

Absolutely brilliant Richard, what detail! Thank you for this favourite channel. Happy New Year.

[@aceace6342]

What amazing detail and I can’t wait till you start the station and seeing the detail you do to it :-) happy new year 🎆

[@claushansen2659]

Loved that intro great video as always ! Happy Newyear Richard from Denmark 🍾

[@tomharding149]

That intro is the best yet! I love it!!

[@thebigmarvinski]

haven't stopped by for a while, but your layout has come together nicely

[@alanbatty3825]

"Farce Insurance" - hilarious!!