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Cawdor Quarry


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This evening I've carried on with the site office building, cutting out all the crenellations round the quoins:

 

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Then it was time to start the painting, so the random stone was given a coat of Matt White:

 

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The quoins were given a coat of Matt Sand:

 

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followed by washes of dilute Black Green:

 

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When everything was dry, some assemblage occured:

 

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Let's go somewhere with better light:

 

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Tomorrow will be roofage and tileage

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

 

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2 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

I'm not going to do anymore to this building, I've decided it doesn't fit into the general scenic setting, so there's no point wasting any more time on it.

 

Al.

 

It would fit quite nicely on a Cakebox sized board...

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40 minutes ago, Jason T said:

You wouldn’t believe how many spare buildings I have that didn’t quite fit into Bacup. A full, huge mill for starters......

 

I think I may have seen that somewhere?

 

;)

 

Al.

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I've been having a steady go at the basic landscaping this week. I've run out of filler now, which, considering I started with a brand new 2Kg tub, means there's 2Kg of extra weight in the board now!! :O

 

And I still need some more...

 

I may need a block-and-tackle to shift this layout... Poor old kitchen table :D

 

Some basic painting of the quarry faces has been applied - just blasts of rattle-can to take the edge off - detail painting probably will start tomorrow.

 

The ground cover has had real limestone dust applied over wet grey paint, and I think looks quite effective.

 

See what you think:

 

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Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

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10 hours ago, Alister_G said:

Time for some heavy construction this evening, so on with the welding mask...

 

A big frame:

 

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with reinforced corners:

 

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And why?

 

To support this...

 

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More welding, but smaller scale. I started a lattice frame:

 

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Still got the other half to do.

 

 

And finally, a bit of cooking.

 

I wanted some pipe bends, so I took some 4mm round rod, and dunked it in boiling water, and bent it. However, it tends to want to spring back, so I screwed the bends to a bit of wood:

 

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and stuck them in the oven at 150C (Gas mark 2) for ten minutes.

 

Boiling water is enough to soften the styrene so it will bend without snapping, but because styrene is a thermoplastic, if you take it above a certain temperature it will stay in whatever shape you want after it's cooled, so after a bit of cooking, I ended up with these:

 

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These are slightly over 90 degrees, as they will tend to relax a bit, and I'd rather have them slightly under tension to straighten them anyway.

 

You'll see what I'm going to do with these tomorrow.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Al.

 

Nice pipeage, now for valvery?

 

Mike.

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