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Still waiting for the boiler suited man with spanners so in the meantime challenge work continues at a pace !

 

For 75p, a strip of balsa split in half gets you a chunky conveyor belt housing in 5 mins..................

 

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Stuck together and cut to a length leaving a few mm either way ready for fitting a quick rummage through the off cuts from the building panels gets you enough to cover 3 sides.....................

 

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Finished in 5 mins with the aid of super quick setting Red Rocket and its off to the spray booth along with an equal length of pipe.............................

 

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The magic colour as many on here will have discovered in the past is the Halfords Grey car primer. I use the one for plastics..............

 

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Welcome to my sophisticated spray booth with natural vapour extraction !! Dont think SWMBO was too keen on grey kitchen units and worktops !!

 

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No problems this time with the paint going wrinkly and half a can later everything was coated to a satisfactory level with any light patches covered later with the weathering. Remebered to mask off the brick work this time ! This stuff doesnt come off to well without lots of scrubbing and very strong thinner !

 

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Once dry I decided to go for an ashphalt roof effect on building 3 and after mixing a pot of 2 & 4mm black & grey ballast I painted the roof area with a layer of pva and sprinkled away ! Left outside for an hour I blew the excess bllast off, checked for any glaring errors and everything is now inside and ready for a test placing on the board and a few more pics.

 

More on that later..........................................

 

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