BobM

Hi All excitement happens on 'The Valley'!😀 Just a few view from today. Regards always Bob

Thank you,,,,,yes I am getting there indeed, it is nice to see Arley yard actively used at times. Regards Bob

Hi I am so sorry it has been an age since I posted images of life at Arley,,,this has been due to being 'shunted into the 'workshop' for emergency 'firebox repairs'' , by that I mean in June I had to go to hospital after a heart attack and a stent fitted, back both at work and thankfully Arley, so getting there...! Here are a few views of today's gala at Arley..... Regards always Bob

Going the gym linked to the 'Action Heart' charity linked to the local cardiac unit at hospital for a planned 12 months of routine exercises. Be fitter than a 'Butcher's Dog' soon!! Regards Bob

Hi No new major concerns thank you, just finding it difficult to adjust, but progress is being made, hopefully going to Stafford Model Circle Show to get back into normal routines! Regards always Bob

Hi Sorry that is has been so long in absence of posting, but I have not been too chipper since I had to go into 'The workshop' for 'Firebox Repairs'.....getting there now thankfully, so with recovery underway and winter nights approaching hopefully some good model railway therapy can be undertaken too soon? Regards always Bob

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Evening The lower branches have been covered in foliage, the plan is to add a lighter scatter tone prior to moving on to the upper branches. Regards Bob

Hi Further foliage added, slowly does it! Regards Bob

Hi Placing the scale rule against this piece, it is going to a mature 45 foot tree! Bob

Afternoon! Trying to add detailed foliage into the poly fibre. Regards Bob

Afternoon! Have started to apply the initial poly fibre to the branches of the tree. Later further denser foliage and scatter to be added? Considering completing a limb of the tree at a time? Regards Bob

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Morning! A lighter dry bush tone has been applied over base colour. Keep ‘cool’ guys please, Regards Bob

A warm afternoon! Base colour of old paint with a scabby brush added. Regards always Bob

With a few tweaks probably just about right to paint up in first base colour?

Hi Have used the twisted wire technique for forming trees many times but always found using das clay or putty as filler very fiddling and not always giving the desired finished surface? So I am using something different for me although I am sure it’s nothing new? Drizzling in pva glue into the wires this flood fills the gaps then leaving to go off return with the point of a small electrical screwdriver further pva is worked into the gaps and branches, as this sets the surface can be roughened to give a bark texture ? The whole surface goes clear so can be painted up later when set? Will post further later. Take care in this heat guys Bob

Afternoon Just playing with another tree shape…

Evening....... Everything has been given a light covering of paint. Regards Bob

Hi Guys..... I'm 'on the box' as it were until mid-August by the look of it, so with no work or SVR to speak of, the 'heavy stuff' of the gardening trade and Arley 'out of bounds' for the duration, I have begun the 'therapy' of miniature horticulture, sitting outside in my back garden with the shade of a huge Prunus Tai Haku in this heat, have tried to form up a tree for either Cambrian Street or Arley layouts...... Used bundled florist wire, filled out with white milliput and then a drizzle of PVA....will keep you appraised. Thanks for the recent kind comments when I 'short circuited' and ended up in railway parlance, in 'the workshop for boiler repairs', thankfully not 'withdrawn from traffic'.... Regards always Bob

Once I’ve got my head around what’s happened, the layouts will be great therapeutic diversion Thanks for your kindness Regards Bob

Oh brilliant thank you... Thanks for the kind wishes, will steadily rebuild, getting a lot of support and help.. Regards Bob

Thanks my friend. Yes it's been a bit of a blur all round, have to be off work 6 weeks,,,,? Missed the Hornby items, what was it about? Regards Bob

Hi Guys Sorry for the silence on both forums.......here and Cambrian Street layout I have only just been discharged from hospital, after having a heart attack and undergoing treatment.... Will post further when able.... Regards always Bob