putting on a brave fascia...
Afternoon,
2nd attempt as I lost the last upload just as I was spellchecking
7 weeks since my last blog update - work has been full on of late but at least I get to travel to Oxford once or twice a week so I get to see a bit of 'real' railway action to compensate...class 66's on long freights are growing on me somewhat
On the last entry I had just been redoing the backscene giving something like this:
New backscene and fascia...
However, when I placed the layout up at proposed display level (1200mm above FFL) I felt the top frame was a tad low and clipped the sky over the mountains. Once of things learnt whilst working in Norman Foster's studio was to also keep questioning what we are doing...and not be frightened to redo something if felt not quite right. So it was redrawn in CAD increasing the opening by 20mm and then re laser cut.
The extra gap does allow some breathing space to the mountains and that all important storm cloud above too All this was done about a month ago and waiting repainting and finally I managed to visit the shop and get some grey paint mixed for the fascia as the previous tin is somewhere hidden in our garage.
Overall, I am pleased that I made the effort to redo it, even though I momentarily felt I was taking a step back in my reduced modelling progress but long term it was the right decision.
Here's some quick iPhone pics with the first coat of grey paint on (gap between new and old fascia needs filling) with and without lighting:
Revised fascia without Ikea lights in place...
View from RHS with lights...
View from LHS with lights...
View from RHS but slightly lower...
Next job is to locate the lights as one strip has been positioned temporarily (hence the slight shadow) to get a few pics. Also on order is some small self adhesive white letters to redo the layout name.
Any comments always welcome...
Pete
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