coombe junction - moorswater - Control Alt DELETE...
Update
For those wishing to see something upbeat, please look away now
I spent a few days scraping with a tooldriver and a little sanding in a bid to get things running again in the dries area. Nothing got past the turnout on first pass, so my initial thoughts of gentle scraping of crud turned to some quite severe scraping. Finally the class 25 ran up and down, but it was not great and even my 37 entered the dries area and the wheels parted company with the rails and performed in skating terms...'a double axo and triple salchow' as it glid across the hard stand area.
So, not only did the locos not perform well anymore...it looked terrible too. What followed this afternoon was more scraping and sanding, which although seemed to remove some of the cracks, it still looked like a dogs breakfast.
So time for the acid test - give it a wash of grey primer to flush out the defects....and by jolly it did...
I attach a photo of it....its okay to laugh ....I did....it looks terrible.....and I am afraid its going to have to go.
One thing I don't want is locos/rolling stock performing badly and coupled with that, something that looks visually awful is not going to keep my interest for too long. So I will have a rethink, and I may even resort back to card as me and wet trades don't hit it off so well.
Really...its okay to laugh I thought I would post it as I think its important to show that things don't always go as well as we planned and we have to bounce back with a new idea.
I will sleep on it tonight, but already the 'jack hammers' have been pencilled in for tomorrow evening. I would like to get this area as right as possible and I don't think I am going down the right route at present.
Pete
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