Sunday, August 29, 2010

Rob The Builder

It's been a busy week this week with quite few things started and finished in the train room. I mentioned in the last post about making a module for the upper and lower decks near the roller doors. It's mostly completed with just the top deck to go and the backdrops to be added. I also built 3 book cases to store my kits, tools and magazines. Here's a photo of the module


And here's one of the bookcases


I've still got to sand them and then they can be painted and then all of my stuff can be brought in. I'll probably have to build some more to hold everything but at approximately $25 each, it's not going to break the bank
The track work continues and I've started on the points needed for Hill Top and Thirlmere. I had started by gluing the sleepers to templates but the glue didn't hold the sleepers so I had to do it again.  Modelling is sooo much fun when you do everything twice. I've done 8 points and have glued down all the track plates and have glued the straight rail down with the rest to follow this week with luck. Here's 2 of the points.


Still a fair bit to go but I've set myself a target to have trains running by the end of the year.....we'll see how that goes.

2 comments:

  1. Rob the trackwork already looks great! The timber colour works really well, you may have mentioned what you used, but could you refresh my memory? Geoff.

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  2. Hi Geoff,
    Thanks for the comments. I ended up, after a bit of experimentation, using good old tyre black diluted a bit with water. Nice and cheap too!!.
    Cheers,
    Rob

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