I cannot believe its July already and I still have not get the layout set up this year! I was planning to take a week off towards the end of June to sort out some of the detailing on the station/quay front boards and this still hasn't materialised. However, in anticipation of finally getting the the layout set up complete with turntable fiddle yard (which is built!), I have been finishing off various buildings ready to install onto the layout.
The first completed building is a small platform shelter. This was built with offcuts of formboard and some plasticard strips, with very much guestimated dimensions. The shelter has been painted with varying colours over the last few months, with base coats added via of the air brush of any old shade of colour left in the airbrush after painting something else. Following this, some hand brushed streaks were also added to the sides and ends, before sealing up with some matt varnish. In the centre of the interior is some ducting, which will allow a light to be fitted. I am not quite sure what to use for the light - it requires something suitably dull and uninviting! Anyhow a job for this week is to buy a small lighting unit, which I can glue into the roof.
So something finally finished off and ready to place on the layout. There are various wagons that are also close to coming out of the paint boxes, alongside finishing the quay masters cottage. So some good progress and it feels brilliant to see some models finally being finished off...time to book a weeks leave off work me thinks! In the meantime, if I can get the class 33 sorted out and put back together then I will at least have a couple of locomotives to work the layout....
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