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Basic scenery


Flood

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The next job for the layout was ballasting all the viewable track and, yet again, we ended up spending far more time on this process than we first thought.

 

We started the job together but with the layout being at Glenn's all the time I only managed two boards with two lines on each. Writing this report I'm beginning to wonder how much I actually contributed to this layout! In the meantime I was given the responsibility of making the depot shed and Glenn decided to have a side project of making Wellington Road bridge at the scenic break (mainly to stop him going mad having to do all the ballast).

 

I had had an idea on the style of the depot building from early August but the actual construction was debated for a couple of weeks. First it was to be in plywood, then we looked at utilising Scalescenes sheets and finally 6mm plywood was chosen for the frame with either plasticard or Scalescene sheets to cover. A sheet of plywood was cut into the main parts and they are seen below on August 23rd

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By the 9th September the 2 foot section was complete and the 4 foot section had commenced:

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16 days to just do that I hear you say. Yep, you're right, not a very speedy process by me. My time was mainly distracted by two things 1) The completion of a working schedule to cover 24 hours of depot movements for Aberdeen in February 1988 and 2) a summary of CMS 123, the Carriage Maintenance Schedule, so as to explain the workings of a depot to the public.

 

Glenn had continued with Wellington Road Bridge and by 16th September the depot building and the bridge were as below:

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I had finally given up the idea of cladding the depot building before the exhibition so it was just sprayed in grey primer. The remainder of September was spent by me cutting, glueing and painting the cleaning platforms, repainting two TTAs in BP livery for the layout, building the chassis' for four Post Office vehicles (the bodies were already made and had been given to Alex Carpenter for painting) and putting chips into my last five locos which needed them. The cleaning platforms were finished the weekend before the exhibition and the Post Office vehicles were finished by me on the Thursday and tweaked to ensure good running on the Friday morning.

 

Glenn added some relief to the front of the layout around the area of the bridge, added some grass and trees, painted concrete walkways and tarmaced the carpark/roadways.

 

The weekend before had also meant a trip to Loughborough exhibition where some Knightwing fuel storage tanks were purchased along with more Bachmann buildings and some Taxis to add to the layout. Along with constructing the toilet discharge points on the front of the layout we had somehow managed to make a reasonably acceptable model in time for the show

 

What I did forget to mention was the fact that both the single slip had to be replaced in late August and double slip in mid Setember due to dips in the centres of each point and consequently poor running (especially by the 08s). This was not good for the nerves of either of us!

Edited by Flood

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