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Looking at recent posts listing people's modelling achievements this years has prompted me to look back and to my surprise see just how much I have got done, in spite of feeling frustrated at my seeming lack of pace. The year started off by completing the London Road Models J5 65498 (although it still lacks coal and crew) and proceeded on to putting in a new junction from the hidden sidings to improve the operation of the layout. In hand with that were 2 new control panels including electronics for signalling and a small lever frame. A side extension was added to the visible layout giving room for a new siding in the goods yard. Three working signals installed on the layout (two of which also built this year - the third was built last year). Following on from the layout board and track improvements I added a substantial number of vans and wagons from kits and detailed some container wagons. A number of RTR Gresleys and Thompsons have been repainted and weathered. The down platform has been cut to shape prior to fitting (due to be done as soon as I can). A Bachmann O4 has been converted into EM as an O4/7 and a signal box based on Breadsall's signal box has been built from scratch with a wing and a prayer. Unfortunately at the moment we have a serious illness in the family and modelling has had to take very much a back seat but I'm hoping once we fully get on top of the situation some time will be found to proceed. Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! Clem

I don't think i have finished anything this year but these two are work in progress and are ready for the paint shop.

I have finished very little this year and the things that I have finished have been for other people, so I haven't much to "show and tell" other than a number of part finished projects and this. Not the best photos as they were snapped on the less than good camera on my tablet device. I would just like to say how lovely it is to see so many models hat people have been building, of such high quality. When words are written about RTR conquering all and modelling by making things fading away, we clearly have some way to go before model making as opposed to model buying is extinct.

Seems like weeks since the sun was anything other than a pale orange glow, or that the air wasnt thick with smoke and burned leaves. Fires are 10 to 20km to the NE, W, SW and S of here and todays fire rating is catastrophic, its going to be 47 degrees with strong winds meaning that homes are not defendable if fires reach them. Some rain would be nice here..

I've done a fair bit of modelling this year but most of it has been to do with layout construction rather than locos and rolling stock. Nevertheless, I found time a few months ago to convert my Bachmann 64xx into a 74xx. Not up to Tom Foster standard but, most importantly, as a layout loco it is already earning its keep moving china clay trains around.

Good Morning all. It has been, as Bob mentioned, prepissitating down but threatens to ameliorate later to a mere downpour. We are off to that Big Smoke after lunch despite the inevitability of crowds and more argy-bargy than one gets at Warley. The request was made to "see the lights" and it is an excuse to take SWMBO for a shopping trip at my expense. Limits apply! Meanwhile, and speaking of big smokes, Aussie-mate has posted some more pictures of what bushfires look like when they threaten your home. He got his family to a community shelter before defending the property himself. In fire situations as severe and extensive as being experienced currently the fire services cannot protect everywhere and prioritise infrastructure of strategic importance such as power lines, water storage, hospitals schools. It has been several days now since residents were warned that if they did not evacuate they could not rely on help arriving. This time they had a lucky escape.

And on with a little modelling. This evening I've started on constructing the little odd shaped cobbled and fenced courtyard to this terrace of handsome Georgian buildings in St Thomas Street along with St Thomas church (all in N/2mm). The buildings were, I believe, part of the hospital but later became railway offices (as marked on an old map). Now they seem to be general offices for rent. With sub-basements it's a little tricky as the front wall extends lower than the forecourt and pavement outside but I've cut the effective ground floor to accommodate the basements from mountboard:

Today marked the end of another tour round the sun. Quietish; had one of the railway club over for dinner. SWMBO gave me a pair of reading socks -- long and thick. I had charge of the company's VAX for about 15 years. What I hadn't expected was that the biggest headache would be the air conditioning machinery -- including floods.

Greetings from all over SE Lunndunn innit. The grand shopping day. Early to Sainsbury, then butcher when he opens. Brockley Market to pick up the bird. (no not that type of bird) BBQ place to get a part for repair. Hackney Carriage micro pub for post-trauma recovery. VAX and PDP-11. Brings back memories. The PDP-11 is the first commercial grade bit of kit I ever programmed. Scary to think my phone has more horsepower. Anyone still competent to operate such beasts must surely (don't call me Shirley) now be classified as palaeontologists. Off we go. Wish me luck.

Good morning all, Not particularly good though as once again it has been, is and will be prepissitating quite a lot. Many Happy Returns to David. Another disturbed night caused mainly by The Shoulder deciding I didn't need to sleep. Watched rugby last night and will do so again this afternoon. Tonight I'm on taxi duty for The Boss and Nicki, Abbie & Gemma as they're off on a girls night out. Apart from that I have nothing else planned today although I wouldn't be surprised if somebody tries to change that. Have a good one, Bob.

Perkins, a very interesting loco. Originally IIRC a Muir Hill from the 20's with s fake steam outline body known as the passenger tractor. The original TVO engine gave up the ghost in the 70's so it was re engined with a Perkins diesel salvaged from a wrecked yacht in the harbour using the JCB at low tide. Sone time later the bodywork was rebuilt. I seem to remember thst the bows of the wrecked boat were also salvaged and used to re reate a waiting shelter at Miteside halt. We tok them up there very slowly on a flat wagon. Jamie

Vax or VAX, SWMBO is qualified in both, me only the orange one.

Ah..a PDP11..spent a few hours using one of those many moons ago...lummy where did the years go??? Ey up! A broken nights sleep but about 8 hours sleep tokens collected.. Apparently I have some tickets to coll3ct today, other potential things to do will be issued later....but first...a mugatea! Baz

Evening all, 'The Q' talking about the influx of drivers of German cars reminds me of a Merc I noticed just round the corner on my walk back from shopping - a very pretty yellow wheel clamp labelled 'DVLA' affixed to the front offside wheel. 'Yo-ho-ho' as Santa would say - so that will be somebody's Christmas sorted. I wonder if it will still be there the next time I pass by? G'night all.

Today was largely spent on the Ratty, albeit behind a diesel. The diesel in question is called Perkins and has only recently returned to service after a long absence from the line, so it was the first time I had been behind it. The weather stayed largely dry, so I was actually guarding from an outside position for nearly half the time. My trains were all pretty quiet , but the Santa Specials were very busy. At the risk of the awl, here is a picture taken at a festive Ravenglass showing Perkins on the right, Northern Rock in the middle, all decked out for the Santa Specials.

The Blyth and Tyne between Winning and North Blyth (Alcan terminal) this afternoon. Hopefully it will work this time - I wonder where it went before? Winning 37058 coal empties to Ashington 23rd May 86 C7543.jpg Freemans crossing 56129 empties Dec 87 J9390 Cambois 56114 and 56111 Oct 88 J9686 Cambois 56133 Alcan empties Fort William to North Blyth March 89 J9846.jpg North Blyth 56133 Alcan empties Fort William to North Blyth March 89 J9849.jpg David

I am planning to build a scrapyard micro layout and so have just weathered my latest purchase to be the motive power. The scrapyard acquired it from the MOD and it has received a few knocks and scrapes, not to mention not getting cared for anything like as well as it would have in army service.

Weather update, the weather app says it's raining here. Mk1 eyeballs and temperature sensors near to them say that the sun is shining and its getting warm. We also have a clear blue sky. In the meantime the top rail has been glued and clamped on the shutter. Coffee and mince pie time has just been decreed by the ayatollah. Regards to all. Jamie

Ah, the joys of auto-correct strike again Iain. I wondered how Arlesay, Aresay and Sheffield linked to the B&T Shefford brewery (about 15mins from here). . Two weeks ago, you would have got to see Tornado thunder through Arlesley Station. I hope you enjoy the visit. Belated best wishes to our correspondent from Honeysuckle Cottage. As for VAX, ,PDP-11 and the earlier PDP-8, I have the teeshirt so must now include palaeontology on my cv too! Here is the news... Yesterday was spent being jostled by desperate shoppers in Waitrose who were stripping the shelves faster than partners could refill them - I wonder how the lower classes who frequent cheaper shops will manage . "We", of course, couldn't possibly be seen in such establishments. I then arranged a further string of runway lights LEDs around the bijou estate we call home, at least it makes her happy. Later "we" assisted daughter in preparing for a "party" she hosted wherein a couple of dozen friends showed up and partook of quantities of falling down water. I was assigned the role of food bearer and glass refiller. It was early this morning when I left them to fend for themselves. Today will be mainly preparing to head north to our former village to catch up with friends, deliver mince pies and seasonal cards, collect our Christmas Pud and stay sober, before returning when one hopes the roads will be less busy although likely to be just as soggy according to forecasts. At some time today I must look out three dog collars and leads in preparation for taking the eldest grandchildren shopping tomorrow - I wouldn't dare return home if I lost one (or all) so that would seem to be the only safe option. No doubt said shopping will result in confectionary sales will hit an all time high... followed later by expenditure of great energy fuelled by a diet of sugar and additives. Time to receive next orders, get well, stay safe and warm, catch up later...

Good morning from first class on a GW Worm, well the rear declassified area so at least semi reasonable seats all the way to Arlesey then a bus to Sheffield for B&T Brewery. Hoping to photo the blue grey HST passing through Aresey later on. Had breakfast in Spoons. So that should keep us going for a while. hopefully meeting a friend from Barrow at some point this afternoon for beers if he’s recovering from his cold.

Good evening everyone Well this morning’s plan to do the shopping at the Trafford Centre separately didn’t quite go to plan, but it all got done. We called at the butchers on the way home and we were back home for just after 11:30! The afternoon was spent wrapping presents up, Sheila made a start yesterday afternoon and we both finished it off today, thankfully it’s now all now done. I mentioned earlier that James and Amelia were due for tea tonight, but they didn’t show up and we’ve not heard from him as to why. To say that Sheila is not best pleased is an understatement, she’s absolutely fuming. Luckily I hadn’t started our meal, as they are usually late and this time of year doesn’t make it any easier. So by the time it got to 6 o’clock and they hadn’t turned up, I decided to make Shiela and I something quick and we ended up having a sausage sarnie! But not just any old sausage, this morning whilst I was at the butchers, I picked up some pork, cranberry, cinnamon and red wine sausages and very nice they were too! Time for bed now, goodnight all.

Not exactly "seasonal" here. It's 9C and all the snow from yesterday has melted. I made the mistake of lighting the wood stove in the shed. It's like a sauna now. AndrewC, Spokane probably hasn't changed all that much since you were last there but you probably wouldn't recognize Coeur d'Alene (the heart of the awl). I was up very late last night. I started watching "The Irishman" and couldn't stop.

Rain and opticians, port and p1ssed https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/12/20/sounds-of-the-season-20-o-clavis-david-and-an-optician/

Some shots from a very wet York. Amazing to see a full set in its original livery (again) and what a great paint job too. Brought back great memories of the 70s and seeing these up and down the ECML. What I also now love is the fact that I can legitimately run a BR Blue "Flying Banana" in high gloss finish on our layout at home!

Now that's the best excuse I've ever heard.

Not a train, or even the railway in sight; but it can just be seen in this one; John

If I dare mention the word miniature, my perambulation to our local shop / sub-Post Office - a much miniaturised version of Tesco's - doesn't quite mimic the experiences of Mike's own Good Doctor viz: Rant mode on Our shop / PO closes at 1pm, our postman (a fine fellow, as is his stand-in) collect the mail from the PO section at around noon on Saturdays. Some old biddy (probably younger than me) decides she has to post 20 parcels and arrives at the counter at approx 11:45 whilst I get there to withdraw some tokens for tomorrow's expedition almost immediately after her. Once the person being served has completed her business, said biddy gets to the front and then occupies the counter until 12:15 with her parcels before deciding she needs to pay in some money but doesn't have a paying in slip or book! Were the KZ dome not to be as smooth as a baby's bum (or GDB's bonce), I would have been tearing out my recently trimmed follicles, a lady behind me was on the verge of committing murder, not so that someone with a Scottish Accent could mutter "there's been a mudder" but because she too wished to post two parcels. Meanwhile our good postman had came and went, only to return ten minutes later in the forlorn hope of collecting ALL the parcels. In this modern age of instantaneous everything, the art of forethought and planning seems to be long lost! Rant mode off The sunny is sometimes finding a window through the cloud base, it is a pleasant 9 degrees outside and ideal for a gentle walk. Were it not for the need to chauffeur Her Ladyship later, the pub would have been a pleasant destination "for a swift half". Oops, must dash, SWMBO has returned...

Tickets for our future trip collected. Whay are flights at such sooopid times? I am allowed to "play trains" today. Perhaps our local railway companies will let me have a go on the full size trainset? Now for a mugadecaff. TTFN Baz

Good moaning to all and even to sundry wherever he or she is. The final pkanks were glued to the shutter, hopefully the reinforcing battens will go on today. At lunchtime we are invited to a full Christmas dinner at some friends in the village. They gave come over for 2 nights just to do it. Should be a good day. Ttfn. Jamie

Mooring Awl, inner Temple Hare, In the end, a good nights sleep, 2 hours followed 5 hours, At which point Ben the desperate Collie got me from my comfortable repose to go on patrol, on return he charged upstairs to check SWMBO was there. Then charged back down again, started throwing his new toy around, or giving it to me to throw. Now he's had his mad half hour, he's gone back to bed. The flood warnings have expanded, though the garden has returned to muddy hollow status instead of swimming pool. My hip pain has disappeared, to be replaced my my left knee, and right hand. The minor pain right hand is probably cutting inserting and painting over 100 0.6mm X 15mm pieces of square copper wire. Then Adjusting them to 8mm showing above ground level. Left knee? Plan for today, toolbox I think, I don't feel up to facing the taps or boat building. But first breakfast, I fancy a bacon butty with Muggacoffee . Time to search for them bacon..

Here's the next 'Tractor' pairing to leave the workbench! 37170 and 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 37170 in Transrail-branded 'Dutch' and 37185 Lea & Perrins in faded classic 'Dutch' join the fleet, both standing out to me as worth modelling amongst a veritable sea of Dutch 37s still floating around in the late '90s. 37170 and 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr There's a number of minor differences between the two, which was great fun to model... 37170 and 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Although Bachmann have recently released a centre-headcode Dutch 37, these are actually much older, using the 2007 release of 37035 in both cases, with new ends liberated from the spares box! 37170 and 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Armed with some top tunes on the iPod, the numbers and brandings were removed with thinners, modifications made to the roof and bodysides (including locating new airhorns on the roof) before new plates and transfers were put on, and the final coats of varnish added before weathering began. 37170 and 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr '170 was in pretty good condition in 1998, whilst '185 was looking a bit more ropey! A wash of white was added before any further weathering, to tone the colours right down and give the muted look required. 37170 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 37170 stood out to me as it not only had the Transrail branding to set off the Dutch colours, but it also had a full set of snowploughs and was still, just about, clinging on to a pair of gorgeous Eastfield terrier depot plaques in my time period - it didn't carry them for much longer though, as photos show! 37170 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Little details on the ends included adding the headboard clips and installing the handrails on the end - as luck would have it, my donor ends didn't have them - only later did I find I actually did have a set of ends with handrails, which I then had to remove for another 37 project...talk about organisation and forward planning..! 37170 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Next up is actually one of my all-time favourite models so far... 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Now by an enormous margin, 37185 stood out due to it's nameplate! I love adding a splash of Worcestershire sauce to most things, namely spaghetti bolognese or livening up some cheese on toast, so when looking at a list of 'Dutch' 37s in my notes, this was at the very front of the list! 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr The livery was also somewhat faded and had great weathering opportunities! 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr With the livery faded down after the whitewash, subsequent layers of light brown (Humbrol 62 & 186) and darker brown highlights brought out the rust patches and oily, rusty water marks down the side. Small rusty bolthole patches also reveal where a crest was once affixed below the nameplate too. 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr Again, snowploughs set off the livery and enhance the whole appearance somewhat, why do they make locos look so good? 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr These two locos are now frozen in 1998-condition, but like all my other '37' projects, the real pair have had very different lives in the period since; sadly 37185 fell by the wayside shortly after, and was scrapped in 2006, whereas 37170 miraculously survived a period of stay at EWS' Wigan CDRC and now lives on working for Network Rail as 97302, still doing a valuable role and pounding the network to this day! 37170 and 37185 by James Makin by James Makin - Account 2, on Flickr I'm glad to get these two into service, they have 'miserable ballast train' written all over them...cue some rust bucket fish-based wagons needed to accompany them in 2020... Cheers, James

A couple from Day 4 of the LNER HST Farewell Tour as the set passed through Sandal & Agbrigg (between Wakefield Westgate and Doncaster). The only thing missing was the scream of the original Paxman Valentas. I expected a few people to turn out to see it pass through the station and when I arrived there were only about 6 of us at either end of the station platform. I didn't expect there to be virtually a full platform of spectators by the time that it passed through.

Morning all, Nice bright sunshine outside which corresponds precisely with the forecast of the seaweed twirlers of Exeter - and I expect their 'heavy rain later' will also be spot on judging by recent weather round here. The Good Doctor ventured forth on foot to Tesco to seek out a newspaper having decided it would be completely pointless driving thereo this morning as their car park will be filled to overflowing due to shoppers being out in greater numbers while the local football families will also be taking up a large percentage of the spaces as they usually do on Saturdays when little Algernon and little Matilda are getting their knees mucky on the football pitches. However she has just returned to advise that all is peaceful in the car park as there is no football this week and many motorised shoppers seem to have stayed away for the same reason as her decision to go on foot. My only concern is that it might lead to it being like an even greater hell on earth tomorrow morning Fortunately there isn't much shopping left to do - we need to venture over to Pangbourne on Monday morning to collect the meat (various), I need to visit a shop locally on Monday p.m. to collect a pressie for herself, and presumably there might be some final buying of veg on Monday/Tuesday to ensure that we can feed the other 4,996 should they darken our doorstep. In the meanwhile the rain has done its bit for river level which was up to the 3.28 metre mark at the lock an hour ago so 0.26 metre above bank bursting level in certain places but in reality nothing to worry about especially when compared with some past events. Enjoy the rest of your day one and all. Edit to add the bit I overlooked - Happy Birthday Dave. And good to see that Gwiwer's mate in Aus escaped the worst of the fire.

Quite a bright morning here just now, with no wind to speak of, which makes a very pleasant change. So far today, I have mopped the kitchen, bathroom and utility room floors, tidied a lot of stuff away, binned some, and yet there seems to be plenty more to do! I also recall using PDP11s back in the early/mid 1980s. I was in charge of a metrology system and was originally programming in Fortran 4, but I can still remember the upgrade to Fortran 77, which was so much easier to use. Data storage was 2 12 inch Winchester drives, each with the colossal capacity of 10MB! We also had an older PDP8 system, which was programmed by punched tape and 8 inch floppy drives.

"... and a bottle of rum." Arrgh! That's more young Jim 'awkins and Long John Silver than Santa. Santa's jolly is more "ho ho ho" and and less "yo".

Happy birthday David.

This afternoon I decided to carry out an inventory of the 7 mm scale fleet. A big mistake here as I have far more than I ever imagined (and there is more on order). What stated as a toe in the water has developed into a major undertaking which I just never noticed. I don't know whether to sit down and bask in the rosy glow of self satisfaction or to take cover against a possible retaliatory strike if you know who has a look and decides to get her calculator out.

Hi everyone, We really don’t mind questions being asked, just worth remembering that once we have something we show it (can’t help ourselves really!) and if we don’t answer straight away we are usually knee deep in something (this week was the dispatch of our latest Irish wagon and the landing of the PFAs) We will likely do a full update on all Accurascale projects when we’re back after the Christmas break in January, but if anything like deco samples arrive before that you can be sure we will pop them on here for viewing! Cheers! Fran

Good morning everyone We had a bit of a lie-in this morning, so I guess we must have needed the rest. We then had a message from Vickie saying that Ava wasn’t well and so she was staying at home instead of coming here for the day. It was a little disappointing, but the best place to be when you’re not well is home. So far today I’ve finished making the fruit tea loaf that I had left soaking overnight, that should be ready about dinner time, so we’ll have a lovely aroma in the kitchen as we eat dinner. There’s not a lot else planned for the day, but that may well change. Enjoy whatever you have planned for the day, back later. David. Happy birthday.

My video from the final leg of the tour today at Sandy station. Lots of tooting!

A much belated 'morning all' to all hereabouts, What started out as a day of self inflicted DIT based cock-ups on my part has been rather nicely rounded off by a very happy visit from my two sisters, the eldest of whom has finally been able to offload the stress and worry she'd suffered a few months ago from her bullying boss at work. It's a very long and meandering story which I won't go into, suffice to say it beggars belief that a 65 year old manager could treat her younger fellow female colleague which such bile and venom, all for the sake of not losing face. Thankfully sister no.1 has since found another job in the same organisation, one which has zero stress, with the help of a very warm hearted manager of the old school persuasion in another department, not only that but she has also given up smoking bless her. A weight has been well and truly lifted off her shoulders and she can relax and enjoy a good Christmas holiday. She remarked that she's amazed at how much extra disposable income she has each month since quitting the dreaded ciggies - more spare change for trips out with the girls. My brother and I are the only members of our entire family who have never smoked, not even a sly drag to see what the fuss is all about... funny that!

A'noon. HB David! I had the misfortune to be sub-postmaster for 18 months when we first came to the island, so I can assure KZ it is no better on the other side of the counter of a rural PO. A decision to look for other work wasn't long coming to prevent me committing murrrdurrr, as Blythe Duff used to say. Hell, I even went back to HR for a couple of years to escape it! Escaped that too, when I realised a new boss had less qualifications than me yet was countermanding virtually every decision I made, from her position of 'knowledge'. She strayed well into the illegal once too often due to a total inability to read (or interpret) our Employment Act (different to the UK one) here. The Young Offenders Team Office Manager job was luxury after that, yet you would think otherwise. Did that for 9 years before retirement. Those Aus fires look terrifying, not complaining about the rain ever again. On the subject of which.....LOL....the barometer is off the bottom of the scale here, yet it isn't particularly wet or windy, just very grey-y. Wood burner's lit, backside plonked.

just south of Sandal & Agbrigg, Wakefield about 11:20 today. leading then trailing shot

It seems that the dry cleaning hasn’t made it back to Morrison’s yet so no need to venture out today. We have a couple of local Christmas cards to deliver but even they don’t have to go today. We are currently in-between rainy spells. Sunny now but forecast to be wet this afternoon. Our strawberry bed is quite soggy, never seen it like that before. Tony

Morning All Was chucking it down now the sun is out which is soon to go. Broken sleep last night I went to bed at 9pm and went donk woke at 12:30 thinking it was morning. Blondie failed to call last night win some lose some, Lady Horsell messaged me at 7am today she seems keen both go a busy day so will have a natter later. I thanked Ms. Czech for yesterday's company, she is probably think of a reply in about 3 days time at a guess. It odd with women on dating sites they visit you profile day after day but never leave a message several bag ladies have taken to doing this, one has pursued me on two sites I delete her daily and still she comes back I didn't want to report her but I might have to. Better get on laundry to do enjoy the rain I.N.T. O'Stuffin

As seen on Twitter today on the last run @LNERKate

In desperation, I went up yesterday, and ran a couple of trains at random, under fluorescent light. I couldn't get what I regard as a satisfactory result with any setting of the camera, and despite juggling with everything I could think of when processing, this was the best I could get. I do not like this at all.

Evening Awl, Unlike the stationmaster, I have the biscuits, and needed the cheese. So when SWMBO said "as you're going past Tescos "( I wasn't) "can you pick up some milk", an assortment box of cheese somehow got bought as well. Hence I've just had cheese and biccies with my choccy. The diversion via TES +Co meant I had to go down a road with works on it, however it was a pleasant surprise to find they've cleared the lights away for the duration. ( and filled in the hole) The traffic was lighter than normal, I suspect the BMW, Audi, Lexus brigade have sped up to their second homes during the day, or left it until tomorrow, because of the grim and damp. The MRC had only three attendees today, several who last week said they would turn up didn't appear. I suspect more casualties of the grim and damp. I got many fence posts ( over 100) inserted and painted, then it was musical boards time. As board three is scenically complete, it was put away, and board 5 placed roughly the other side of board 4. Which would have been through the wall without major layout carriage movements. The first job next week will interlocking the boards together.. Goodnight Awl..