Many years ago I scratchbuilt this station using wood.
Doors and windows are Grandt Line. Shingles are Campbell.
It’s a bit the worse for wear in a few spots. It’s moved back and forth across the country several times, between very humid and very dry climates.
Here’s it is with the roof removed.
The biggest tip I can give is to brace the walls very solidly against warping! You can see how the walls have warped, especially in the peaks. Painting both the inside and the outside surfaces is supposed to help reduce warping, but as you can see it didn’t eliminate it. This thing would probably look like slabs of backon glued together if I hadn’t braced it as much as I did.
Still, given the amount of warping and the face that this is the first thing I ever scratchbuilt, it doesn’t look all that bad with the roof on.