BUILDING STATION PLATFORMS Part 1 at Chadwick Model Railway | 231.

Fantastic content there Charlie! Another ‘live and learn’ lesson for us. Thanks for trialing the tiles for us all…….looking forward to seeing the next video with your preferred solution for the platforms.

I've mentioned it before, but the way you include the "failures" is a massive reassurance to those of us who like to get a bit over dramatic when something doesn't work. Keep up the good work Charlie.

Just love your honesty and advice on not what to do. You are proving a great service to modellers.

Thank you Charlie. Thank you most of all for not being perfect. As someone once told me. 'Try very hard to learn from the mistakes of others. You haven't got time to make them all yourself'. Bless you Steve.

Absolutely brilliant video, and this is why I'm a patreon. I LOVE people who 1. credit and shout out to those who influence and inspire them. It shows class and respect. 2. show their mistakes. This is something that encourages and supports everyone to just keep on keeping on. Thanks Charlie, as always :)

Nothing's wasted Charlie, you got a lesson out of it and we got an entertaining lesson.

This is exactly why I love your channel Charlie, not only do you show your successes but you are not shy to show the failures as well, so we can all learn ... thank you, cheers, Garry from DownUnder

I have been so inspired by watching your videos that after 50 years of dreaming of building a model railway I have finally taken the first steps. I did dabble in a garden line in the early 1990s but that was short lived. I'm 60 now and semi retired, so no excuses to getting it started.

Loved the sound of the DMUs traversing the board joints!

I watch alot of model railway channels I just find them fascinating. As of yesterday Everard junction was my favourite until I stumbled across your channel now I'm binge watching your series..

So many comments and suggestions all go to demonstrate the interest and appreciation for what you do. Not in any way a disaster, just a slightly steeper learning curve ..... an inspiration to a lot, if not most, of us. Thank you.

If you learn something new each day, it's a day well spent. Loved the content on this video, Charlie 👍

After a vacation day filled with bricklaying — wich I hate and am really not good at, but I am too cheap to hire a bricklayer — a new video from Chadwick is just what the doctor prescribed to relax 😊👍.

Awesome update Charlie. Thank you for taking the time for this video.

Very refreshing to see something „not“ being recommended … 👍 Lovely honest review

Evening Charlie, I am the young gentlemen who you were talking to at the Wells Show on Saturday while I was working on Moors View (the Snowy N gauge one). It was a pleasure to talk to you and it was good to get some questions answered, I hope you enjoyed the show. i think these platforms look excellent. We spent a long time trying to remember the last name of Richard from Everard Junction and discussing Richard Watson move from Hornby to Accurascale. I look forward to future videos.

Love it! I.ve made more errors than trials. Your honesty keeps it real. Good luck with the next attempt.

Full respect for showing things that didn't work (for whatever reason). I am sure that helps modellers everywhere. Good to see the station being developed.

Charlie, I absolutely love your videos! So glad you show the failures , as well as success

If you have a Silhouette or Cricut cutting machine, you can get it to scribe a piece of A4 1mm plasticard with your slabs. Paint them with an airbrush, snap them all up into individual bits and you can lay them like these ceramic tiles but without the brittleness. The colour variation from the airbrush also gives a very nice subtle variation from slab to slab. I just paved three whole platform tops this way and yes, it took ages, but it looks really good and basically only cost the price of 2 or 3 sheets of plastic. You can glue them down with PVA or copydex and fill any small gaps with grout.