Chairs and White Metal Chairs
Yes, Shaker Chairs in the first instance.....
Having completed my last Shaker Chair project.... (It is not a true Shaker as it has square lower back legs for reasons too complicated to explain here!), I moved on to rebuilding some rather disappointingly short lived, plastic based, garden railway (16mm NG) points. These had become rather twisted and out of gauge. The rails were removed and reused with the remaining stock of white metal chairs, brass pins and screws, some fairly old (measured in decades) and some relatively new teak and mahogany sleepers made from workshop off-cuts. Mine you the comment of disappointingly short lived has to be seen against some of the garden railway track I use being well into its sixties if not seventies...... Indeed there are a couple of lengths that are older than I am...
So the bench became a dirty bench again... but it is useful working on newspaper as one can use it to mark out the batten positions, sleeper spaces and numbers. That the whole assembly is bigger than one of the baseboards for my scheduled rebuild of Holtzappfel in 1/160 FiNe, will come as a bit of a shock in a week or two when work starts on the smaller opus.
..... And, as it is a nice day the track has been set out ready for testing this afternoon....
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