nebnoswal

As I was tidying up the ballast and grass this morning, it struck me that the milk loading shed I had built was looking to big, the size of the timbers that is. A quick measurement of the upright timber revealed that they were a scale 6 foot wide, what was I thinking? So today I skinned in some planking. It still retains its openness, but now it doesn't look so out of place, I hope. I've given it a quick coat of humbrol, now I have to decide whether to paint it a cream colour, similar to the other wooden railway buildings, or to leave as unpainted timber and give it a heavy weathering.

In between looking after my 39 week pregnant wife, I got a fair bit done today. I've painted 5 packets of Peco fencing, touched-up the ballast on the sides of the up and down lines and I've put down the 1^st base coat of static grass. It still needs a bit of tweaking, but so far so good. I was intending to put in a small pond just below the start of the buildings, that's something I will look into tomorrow.

And I only got zapped once! Ouch.

I've tried the new blog, but after a couple months it's not doing it for me, so I'm moving my layout updates to this format, just like the old forum. You can catch-up on the progress in the links below:

http://www.rmweb.co....php?f=9&t=37739

http://www.rmweb.co....r-n-gauge-blog/

So far over the Christmas break I've been working on the landscaping on the Butts Pond end of the layout.

My wife tried to avoid giving me train presents this year, but I did manage to get some.