The Minffordd Weigh House has no shortage of challenges for the scratch builder who wants to make their effort look halfway like the real thing.
There's the very neat dressed stone blocks and quions, which are a distinctive feature, as well as the diamond-shape slates on the roof.
And once you've found a way to replicate those you look at the finishing details, such as the barge boards, and run your fingers through (what remains of) your hair wondering how on earth you're going to produce that distinctive toothy look.
Fortunately, this is where resin casting makes things much easier.
All I had to do - all, he says.... - was chop two sets of tiny triangles, large and small, and glue them alternately to a broader strip of plastic to make one complete barge board.
I used this as a master to resin cast four copies which could be reversed and used on the opposite side.
It was also to my advantage that by the late 1960s this original feature was looking a little worse for wear, and so it wouldn't matter if a few of the points on the castings were less than perfect, because by this stage they most certainly weren't on the real thing!
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