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Putting it to Bed

Tony Simms

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The coal drops are now substantially complete and its time to incorporate them into the layout. With hindsight, I should have sorted out the cross board join at an earlier date and not tried to do it as part of the drops. However, what is done is done and I had to make the best job I could of the rails up to the join:

 

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Once happy with the mechanical element of the area, I set to blending the drops in scenically. The pre-mix plaster I use is especially good for this as it is very dry, doesn't mark brickpapers etc and any surplus mess can be cleaned away whilst partially dry. Soon it will be ready for the final painting and weathering and grass/weeds that will fully complete the picture:

 

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bcnPete
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What cross board joint? Looks pretty good to me...

 

Nice work Tony...I have enjoyed seeing this come together and it beds in well to the layout...what's next on the hit list?

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Tony Simms
What cross board joint? Looks pretty good to me...

 

Pete

 

The end result may be okay, but it was very fiddly getting the tracks, integral to the drops, to align with those on the adjacent board especially in the vertical axis.

 

What I should have done, was to lay the approach track right across the baseboard join, incorporating soldered sections at either side of the join, before splitting it with a piercing saw. The tracks on the drops would then have only extended a few mm to align with track already affixed to the baseboard.

 

End result is okay, I could have made the job easier for myself! blink.gif

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Donw
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Hindsight is wonderful but it looks good and if it works ok perhaps it was the right way.

Donw

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