Forfar Dairies Kitbash

Lately I've been working on Forfar Dairies, which at the time was a mile and a half north of the village. That building was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt in the village.

I started with a Bachmann lighted freight station. The chimney stack is just a cardboard tube covered with printed brick from paperbrick.co.uk. The boiler room is a part of another free download of a false front store, the porch roof is part of the same store. The roof vents are pen tip protectors from chart recorders (the old Bailey panels). I then added Tichy Trains milk station, which is 48 scale inches above track level. This meant scratchbuilding a lower platform and ramp. The building cupola is actually a mistake from Delta mill. That building came with a separate powerhouse (with internal detail, but no windows to see it), and the cupola had two different gable ends. I accidently used the wrong pitch. It seems to go quite well here though. Being a boiler man by trade I realized that either they were burning natural gas or had a cold furnace, so I made a little sawbuck and saw with all sorts of odd scraps of wood, twigs, previously enjoyed Xmas tree, shavings and off cuts.