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The mad rush before a deadline


garethashenden

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We will be at the London Festival of Railway Modelling at Alexandra Palace the 28/29 of March. As this is now less than two weeks away, we have been working frantically to get the layout presentable. Since the last post the entire team has been working hard and the sort of stuff we have been doing includes:

  • Making a new 'roof' for the layout which will have an LED lighting rig attached to it (Gareth - who incidentally showed that, despite being an American, he has a full and extensive grasp of Anglo-saxon idiom and vernacular language when the N gauge group decided to traipse across the area where he was working. Fortunately they had small feet.....)
  • Making a number of saplings for the layout (Ivan)
  • Painting and turning Scalelnk etched bracken into withered winter examples rather than lush summer vegetation (Duncan, Ivan)
  • Painting Scalelink water plants (Les)
  • Positioning the water plants (Duncan)
  • Adding banks of nettles and brambles to the layout (Duncan, Les, Ivan)
  • Cajoling of the electrics (Gareth)
  • Weathering and painting of the large china clay dry (Chris, Gareth)
  • Detailing the large dry (Chris)
  • Building and installing the platelayers hut (Duncan)
  • Painting the platelayers hut (and fixing the bits Duncan broke off trying to install it) (Les)
  • Experiencing the tedium of repeatedly drilling holes for fence post and gluing fence posts in place (Ivan, Les and when cornered, Duncan)
  • Building and painting a store or mess hut for either the clay dries or the loco crews and shunter based on an ex-broad gauge wagon - but we haven't quite decided which yet (Gareth)
  • Airbrushing 'dirt' over the track and ballast (Duncan)
  • Toning down the banks of nettles, brambles and bracken (Duncan)
  • Adding the layouts workforce and the wagon full of empty casks (Gareth)
  • Fixing the small dry in place and bedding in the scenery surrounding it (Gareth, Les)
  • Airbrushing the road surface (Duncan)
  • Laying more carpet underlay as rough grass, and then cutting and teasing it into shape (Duncan)

There are lots of areas that have been worked on recently of which we don't have photographs. These include the fencing along the front of the layout. This has been made from Slaters posts and will be strung with ez line. Also unphotographed is the very nicely painted platelayer's hut. You'll have to come to the exhibition and photograph it yourself!

 

The carefully painted water plants have been planted, they didn't go as far as expected, so more have been ordered.

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The platform now has a population and a bit of character. The figures are mounted on brass wire so that they can be removed for a change of eras, the horse and cart are likewise removable.

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