Platforms looking empty, tired signage or just needing a little maintenance. MIKE WILD offers 10 top tips to breath new life into any station scene no matter how big or small.
STATIONS ARE often the focal point of our layouts and whether you already have one or are in the early stages of building a new scene, we are here to help you make it the best it can be. We have covered platform construction in the past, so in this feature we are going to focus on the details that can transform bare stations into an environment with realism and life.
Getting these details right is more difficult – too little and it will look empty, too much and it will be overpopulated. Fortunately, when it comes to sourcing detail items there is an extensive array of readily available detailing parts, signs and more available to bring this central feature to life.
Most of the layouts that we have built for the magazine feature a station of one sort or another ranging in size from the original single platform of Shortley Bridge through Twelve Trees Junction’s four-platform design to the large terminus of Grosvenor Square, but the one that was in the greatest need of attention was our office test track Topley Dale.
The layout has been going through a redev…
