HOW TO... CREATE AN OLD EMPTY BARN

This barn from Scale Model Scenery is typical of the quality of modernday laser-cut kits. It is very strong because the main structure is made from fibreboard. Any mistakes can be hidden beneath the paper detailing wraps.

The kit is easily customisable. It would be easy to model the building in a rundown form, even derelict, or add a further structure such as a lean-to built from the spare sprue. It is the sort of building that can find a home on most layouts and you have a choice of building in brick or stone or using the basic structure to add a different finish, perhaps using modelling clay to give a more 3D effect.

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