£1 Wonder

I recently picked up the classic Hornby shelter from a collector's fair as I've always thought they had potential- and at a quid it was a no-brainer.

Anyway, I began looking at the possibilities when I remembered a bash by Neil Rushby that removed the seating area and turned it into a tiny booking office and immediately that idea caught hold.

So as you can see, I began cutting it up- and there were a lot more cuts than you'd expect! This was to keep things like pillars central in the reduced size version.

This is the amount of parts I ended up with! Other parts removed were the stove as I wanted to reuse it, whilst the bench needed an amount removed so that it would fit nicely in the corner.

Then the interesting bit...

I loosely assembled the parts to see how they'd fit together...

But I wasn't quite sure what to think, as it still looked too "main line"; however once I started altering the roofline things started to work a lot better.

I had to add on some more material from the canopy to get a high enough pitch- as you can see, the interior is very much rudimentary for a "peek in the window" more than Pendonesque detailing.

Bargeboards came from the spares box.

Then the roof!

Just Wills corrugated iron, a bit of plastic rod and paper. The solvent messed up the roof a little but may actually work quite well as corrosion and rust when I paint it later on.

And that's as far as I've got!