I've recently repurposed the peninsula property on my layout from the CN freight shed, team tracks and Canadian Dredge & Dock to the CP and CN trackage across from City Hall, prior to CP vacating the area in favour of Confederation Park. A signature structure for the area, one that I'd long considered building but had no place for (well, until now!) was the second Kingston & Pembroke station on Ontario Street, directly across from Kingston City Hall. The first step was to gather feedstock for the model. This included some dairy walls' styrene, arched windows and heavy wooden doors I copy-pasted from Pinterest pages and printed:
Early on in the build, my predilection for being a rather lazy modeller led me to reject the idea of cutting arched (!) openings in the styrene and emplacing windows. So paper on styrene it would be. Scaling the structure from a prototype photograph was a challenge, which I got about 75% right. The other 25% niggled me throughout the build. Walls as thin as paper - printed stone from Pinterest with a bit of variation in the colouration to add interest, with doors and windows white-glued on:
Matched to styrene and assembled - four walls. But I viscerally HATE this style of roof, some sort of mansard with gables. I used a pre-existing template that wasn't quite right, so the pitch was off a bit:
Pinterest supplied lots of ideas. I pasted these images onto my Pages software as a document, and I was able to assemble a whole roof-full of two styles of shingles from tiny one-inch squares. Very inexpensive and easier than cutting and gluing shingles which I've already tried on the CN Telegraphs repeater station.
The roof was not quite the right pitch, but I decided to distract from that in a couple of ways. One was to build up the very top, flat surface, and the other was to add more interest to the roof. Gable windows ended up making a lot of styrene cutting. I had to be careful to get them up as high as I could but still keep them inside the first-storey walls!
My gables would end up not actually reaching the roof at their rear. Gables ready for installation (below). I printed some of the shingles lighter, then did some fine cutting to make the V-pattern like the prototype. There, that'll distract 'em! I then suspended in-build photography for awhile. Not shown: eaves work, roof top details, building two end-chimneys from brick-pattern styrene, adding a base to boost the model's height, and building roof-supporting eave-brackets. I used nearly-square styrene, cutting them and gluing them to a thin styrene strip, painting them dark grey, then cutting them apart and gluing them to the walls.
A note here about colours. Depending on the year, the station looks dingy, then when spruced up for the Centennial, arches, eaves painted white. That didn't seem right for my era, so I kept the overall look dingy, dark grey.
Signage reformatted from archival photos.
