GOODS SHEDS are an indispensable feature of many stations - certainly during the steam era, but many were left standing - and can still be seen today. There are, of course, plenty of ready-made products or kits to choose from if you don’t want to scratch-build your own. One such kit is by LCUT Creative - a cottage industry manufacturer that specialises in laser-cut kits; some containing 3D-printed details. In this series of articles, I’ll be building the ‘Small Through Goods Shed’ kit, and sharing techniques that will help to make assembly easier for this, and other similar structures.
As well as building the base kit, I’ll also show a few improvements that you can make to turn the relatively empty shell of the kit into a more complete build, including scratch-building a new canopy, roof trusses, and doors. In this first part, we’ll tackle the elevations of the base kit.
The internal walls of this LCUT kit are plain, which is unfortunate for a building like this where
