Exhibition countdown
Well the last month or so has seen less done on Avonwick than I wanted, Part of this has been down to me getting more work over Jan than before Christmas but mostly down to me being a lazy oaf.
What have I done?
Some of the spot lights that I put in before Christmas have been replaced with ones which have diffusers on them. This has significantly improved the shadows on the back scene, although these do still show. It's more a case of bright spots now rather than dark ones.
The woodwork has been painted to hide lots of stains and overspills. Black has been chosen.
The goods yard has started the progress of transformation to the railways permeant way depot. A couple of dogfish and a digger have been purchased to aid this.
Some extra stock has moved closer to completion but is now in a state that I can use it.
The Ixion Manor that turned up at Christmas has had it's wheels turned down and now runs on 2mm track. The motion has been blacken on this but the pick up's need a little tweaking to improve the running.
The display board has been printed but I have yet to secure this to the board I will use, I need to work out how to make sure that the board does not fall down and the exact position before doing this (well that's a job for this week then! )
I have built a support for the controller so that it sits over the fiddle yard.
A couple of trees that had been knocked down have had strengtheners added to their trunks and have been replanted. No more naughty trees.
A stock box has been built out of a box file, some kitchen scrubbers and bits of an old roll mat.
Avonwick up without info board.
Avonwick up with the Info board popped in place. Do I leave it here or put it at the other end?
The stock box. It holds 14 coaches on the the layer that I have built plus a few wagons. The centre strips are removable only being held in place with pins. All other bots of foam are stuck in place, mmmmm the smell of Evo stick. There is a further layer of foam that sits on top of what can be seen.
And now onto the stock. I now have 4 Toplights ready (2 still need their roofs glued on). Whilst I have another 3 of these nearly ready to go I decided to concentrate on these 4 so that I had something to run as a train. These don't have buffers as they are still out of stock but they will just have to wait for these. I was going to light these coaches but have not managed to get a satisfactory power transfer so have left this off. This means that the insides have compartments but no real details. A shame but it has an upside as these are very heavy coaches already. I have built a couple more wagons but have not taken a photo of these to put on here.
Avonwick will be at the Newbury Model railway exhibition next Saturday (12th of Feb) details can be found here. If your going to be there say hello.
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