Half-Relief Buildings Part 38

 A further 23 pieces of glazing fitted to the terrace this morning, making a total of 40 windows and 2 doors

This afternoon I fitted the interior to the Post Office and the window display for the model shop next door and sign over the door and window

Post Office interior

Model shop window display and sign over the door and window

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 37

 This morning I fitted the remaining 10 doors

Doors ready to be fitted, just need to decide which ones go where?

All doors fitted

Close-up of the painted ridge tiles

All ridge tiles painted

Final painting, the small section of bargeboard on the end of the terrace

4 of 19 pieces of glazing fitted this afternoon, these were all the same size, only 18 more to go and they vary in size including the 2 shop windows and 2 shop doors

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 36

 Back to painting today, having felt a bit rough starting at the weekend with a cold.

Door fittings, letterboxes etc. masked off with Sellotape then painted 😊

First door masked off

The Post Office door masked off

All 3 doors already fitted masked off

One door masked off

All doors masked off

3 fitted doors fittings painted

Unfitted doors fittings painted

3 fitted doors fittings with Sellotape removed

Unfitted doors with Sellotape removed

Roof tiles painted

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 35

 Today I painted 13 flaunchings and 44 chimney pots, and before you ask, a flaunching is the slab on the top of the chimney stack on which the chimney pots sit. I am awaiting a pot of slate paint which is in the post to be able to paint the roofs. 😊

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 34

 Difficult to show the painting done this morning as it was just tidying up the paintwork on the terrace, but I can show the Post Office sign above the window and the letterbox both glued in place

I also painted the tops of the chimney pots black

I also managed to fit the first 3 doors

This was all I managed today as the scratch in my throat has turned into a cold today.

Just too pooped to play 🤧

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 33

 More painting today, window cills painted white, and lintels, gutters and downpipes painted black. 😊

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 32

 Chimney stack painting today. 😊

This now completes the stonework painting. 😁

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 31

 This afternoon I finished the 2nd shade of grey to the terrace.

I still have the chimneys to do in the same 2 shades of grey, but not today, too much strain on my eyes with it starting to get dark, I prefer natural light to artificial to work by. ☀️🌤️⛅️🌥️☁️

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 30

 This afternoon I painted 2 sections of the terrace with the second shade of grey. At this stage it is easier as I don't have to decide which stones to paint, I only have to paint every unpainted stone

The corner that adjoins the cottage hospital

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 29

 I have painted the last cottage and the two shops

I got this far by lunchtime

Jo took this photo of me painting

The complete terrace has had its first shade of grey

Keith

Half-Relief Buildings Part 28

 Today I started painting each individual stone of the terrace cottages. I am not counting them as I go, but there are a lot of them!! I am using two shades of grey. I have completed one shade of grey on the first three sections, four more sections to go then I can start the other shade of grey. 😊

I started at the end, when I realised that the two upper ones I painted first would not be seen!! 

Part way across the first cottage

First cottage finished

A further 2 sections (2 pairs of cottages) completed

Keith

Baseboard Legs Part 2 and Half-Relief Buildings Part 27

 I wasn't very happy with the position of the corner leg next to my workstation, not a lot of room to get my legs in past it 🤬

Original leg position

So this morning I have moved it. It still supports the baseboard, and I do have the option to fit it on the corner if needed

New leg position

I have also discovered that a Torx driver bit fits Allen key bolts, so popped it in my electric screwdriver, so much easier to use on the leg bolts. 😊

I cut the roof of the right-hand cottage and part of the cottage hospital so they sit closer together

This now allows the complete terrace to almost fit on the one central baseboard, as good as it is going to get

Keith

Baseboard Legs

 Having meticulously and carefully cut all 8 legs for the new layout to the same length, and fitted them to the baseboards, I discovered the floor is not level! 🤬.

This morning I added packing pieces to 5 of the legs to level the layout up.

No one will notice if you don't tell. 🤫

Two legs needed just one packing piece

One leg needed two packing pieces

Two legs needed three packing pieces

Keith