One of my early scratch builds, a coal merchants hut for Alfred. It was made to go with a really old kit I found in dads attic, I think its ratio but the packaging was gone, just bits in a bag and the instructions were missing. I didn't use all the kit the internal bits I decided to make from scratch and added some coal staithes. After a bit of research, Alfred was a real coal merchant in Somerset where my fictional town is based, so I made my own signs, I would quite like to make Alfred a lorry at some point but that's when I have a bit more time. I think Dapol may have made a wagon with his name at one time. The coal merchants hut is made from paper and card, bits of old sprue and some left over roofing, no idea of the origin of that just found it in the attic in a clear up and kept it as everything has some use.

Posted by Pickwick Line at 2021-09-06 09:20:36 UTC