I've completed a couple of buildings using foam core board, paper and drafting tape. After seeing the fantastic results achieved by Mr. Troels Kirk, the Danish artist from Sweden, I've been experimenting with his method of cutting strips of wood planking from sheets of pastel paper splotched with acrylic paint. If you are not familiar with his work, his website is an eye-opener: http://coastline.no13.se/#home.
My first effort with these methods was the lighthouse at Miskowagosh Point on the Fox Creek Railway side of my layout. It is based on the Sturgeon Point lighthouse on Lake Huron near Harrisburg, Michigan.
The lighthouse is foam core board, covered in brick paper from Micro-Mark (http://www.micromark.com). The tower was made by forming two layers of heavy watercolor paper around a plastic lighthouse-shaped bird feeder. Doors are built up from strips of pastel paper painted with acrylics, and windows are drafting tape on clear plastic. The only styrene is in the lens frame and deck at the top of the tower. The lens itself is a fresnel lens cast in clear resin, with lighting from Bakatronics (http://www.bakatronics.com).
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The next building, which was completed board-by-board using Troels Kirk's pastel paper method, was the general store/harbormaster's office at the port of St. Cleve, Michigan. This is again using foam core board, with styrene windows, doors, and details from Grandt Line (http://grandtline.com/).
The design for this building comes from the series of building plans of the 1960s and 1970s by the late E. L. Moore. This was his "funeral parlor" published in an edition of Model Railway Craftsman. Many of Moore's plans have been turned into HO scale styrene kits, and I intend to make good use of his plans in other buildings on the Fox Creek Railway.
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