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Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
I may have the solution for your lack of space and the poor weather 
The GIT needs an extended branch through the back wall of the house, through the house, and a return lop out in the front garden
The GIT needs an extended branch through the back wall of the house, through the house, and a return lop out in the front garden
beavercreek
Travel, Art, Theatre, Music, Photography, Trains
I still think me idea of the 'Thunderbirds' automated lowering of the back fence panel with track on it is still a goer Mel.....
Hopefully, one day John. It would be most excellent.JRinTawa said:How I so look forward to one day sitting in Mel's back yard with a stupid grin on my face while trains run round
:crying: for now I'll just have to settle for photos - but one day
Took advantage of a dry day (for a change) to lay a bag full of cold tarmac - bloomin horrible stuff to work with, but I've yet to find a better way of laying a roadway at ground level. I like roofing felt on baseboards, but cement roads don't work for me on the ground.
Anyhoo, I've filled in the bare ground in front of the sidings where there'll be a building or two and maybe a couple of vehicles. Also, the entrance to the RAF base has in-filled tracks using LGB station platform pieces saved from the previous incarnation.
I've also laid the road alongside the tramway. I'd like to get the edges a bit neater, but I'm planning to lay some fake grass to act as the verge which should smarten things up a bit.
Anyone who knows the layout of Boyce's Bridge will know that the road ran outside the tramway, whereas mine runs inside, but it is a mirror image in every way - or maybe a parallel universe?
Now I need yet another bag of ballast.
CoggesRailway
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It already looks like its been there for years! Very good...
Another better day then expected weather wise, so a trip to the local DIY store for supplies and then a couple of hours work. The Schleich castle tower has been extended with a piece of resin walling donated by an excellent modeller at the West Mids GSS. The whole thing then got a new coat of paint from rattle cans.
I also cut out some fake grass for the verges. This is laid on to fresh cement. I'm not 100% certain this will have enough "grab" to hold the grass in place as it dries, but it's looking good for now. Only time well tell if it'll need gluing in place.
Next job will be to block off that doorway of the old engine shed.
I also cut out some fake grass for the verges. This is laid on to fresh cement. I'm not 100% certain this will have enough "grab" to hold the grass in place as it dries, but it's looking good for now. Only time well tell if it'll need gluing in place.
Next job will be to block off that doorway of the old engine shed.
beavercreek
Travel, Art, Theatre, Music, Photography, Trains
Vergin' on the ridiglueless..................
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
beavercreek said:Vergin' on the ridiglueless..................
A few more things to report from the last few days - Firstly a small but beautifully formed package arrived at the Gooey Workshops from Germany via Ruritania and the Cogges Railway (I think the van driver must have got lost?), namely 2 LGB Austrian style 4 wheel coach roofs. I already had one coach fitted thus and really preferred it, so I got these to fit on my original starter set coaches. I'm really chuffed with the new look "preservation era" maximum length passenger train, although the new roofs are a bit shiney ......... for now. 
The other day I was sat on the new swing seat perusing in the direction of the fire station (it came out with a damp cloth). I thought that it was a shame that I didn't put the firemen (that I converted from Preiser German firies a couple of years ago) out very often. I wouldn't want to leave these out in all weathers, so I needed a way of carrying them in and out as required. The answer was to mount them all on one base, made out of thick plasticard, painted black. Such bases are a bit jarring to the eye, but sometimes needs must ..........
......... I've got a tenner on the next comment.
......... I've got a tenner on the next comment.
Last Thursday I was helping a mate to get his railway ready for his open day on Sunday. I was having a furtle in his shed (as you do - well he's furtled in mine), when I came across some very fine garden mesh. I thought that this would be ideal for the security fence that I wanted to make around the entrance to the RAF siding. Anyhoo, next thing I knew, he gave me a length. Serves me right for furtling in his shed I s'pose?
When I got home I was wondering what to use as fence posts, when the wife found a stash of plastic chopsticks in a kitchen draw (such places are a mystery to me, I'm better in sheds).
One of the building kit manufacturers (Pola or Piko?) makes such security fencing, but it's WAAAYYY out of my price range. The posts were planted either into holes drilled into the LGB platform pieces (Araldited in), or hammered into the ground. Holes were drilled in the posts and little L shaped pieces of garden wire are super-glued into these holes to keep the mesh in place.
The mesh came in green, but was re-sprayed with grey primer. Hopefully it'll be cat proof, but if not, our cats will die.
Just got to make a gate for it next and, now that I know where everything is going, I'll give the ground inside the fence a skim of nice, smooth concrete.
When I got home I was wondering what to use as fence posts, when the wife found a stash of plastic chopsticks in a kitchen draw (such places are a mystery to me, I'm better in sheds).
One of the building kit manufacturers (Pola or Piko?) makes such security fencing, but it's WAAAYYY out of my price range. The posts were planted either into holes drilled into the LGB platform pieces (Araldited in), or hammered into the ground. Holes were drilled in the posts and little L shaped pieces of garden wire are super-glued into these holes to keep the mesh in place.
The mesh came in green, but was re-sprayed with grey primer. Hopefully it'll be cat proof, but if not, our cats will die.
Just got to make a gate for it next and, now that I know where everything is going, I'll give the ground inside the fence a skim of nice, smooth concrete.
CoggesRailway
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That fence just gives you enough for your imagination to put in an airbase. What about a gate and something to imitate razor wire along the top? Probably get a bit fiddly I guess. Or maybe a little guard box?
jameshilton
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Mel the coach roofs are a great addition and the mesh fence is superb! Those chopsticks could do with a touch of paint too though 
