Having bought a ready made coaling stage, I have decided to convert the one I built, along with the engine shed, to a fuelling stage for the diesel engines.
I have finished painting the stonework and painted and attached a fuel storage tank to it. It will need further work on it to finish it, such as pipelines from the tank via some sort of pump and thence to the locos, but I need to think about how I am going to achieve this.
Keith..
Today I repainted the cottage I built recently as I was not happy with it white, it didn’t look right to me, so I have painted it cream.
The pictures on the left are the repainted cream colour and the right are the original white colour.
Keith.
Cattle dock primered and ready for painting, with the 2 cattle wagons I purchased on eBay and received in the post this morning.
Keith.
Over the past two days I have been scratch building a cattle dock from scraps left over from the kits I have recently built.
As seen from the track side.
The access ramp.
The holes for the fence poles and the drain covers.
1 of the 18 fence posts made from 1.8mm square hardwood, and the 5 holes for the fence rails (0.6mm piano wire) were drilled with a 0.6mm drill in each post.
The 4 corner posts had to be drill twice at right angles.
First part of the fencing installed on the access ramp.
Keith.
Back to working on the engine shed today, halfway through painting the stonework and fitted the door and windows.
Keith.
Base coat of light grey which is for the mortar between the brickwork and stonework and the concrete platform of the coaling stage and the water tank support.
Keith.
Both engine shed and coaling stage primered ready for painting tomorrow.
Keith.
Today I constructed and added the brick steps. The coaling stage is now ready for painting.
Keith.
Today I constructed the coaling stage to go with the engine shed. It needs a set of steps to complete it.
Keith.
Today I made a start on building an engine shed. Yesterday I received in the post a Wills Kit of a standard gauge engine shed, which needed modifying to suit my narrow gauge layout. To this effect I had planned to reduce the length and height, but I decided to keep the width as changing this would have been impossible to adapt the supplied doors to fit. I hop that it will look alright when finished. First thing was to cut down 2 of the doors from which the height of the shed could then be determined. The 2 doors in the centre are the original height and the 2 outside doors are the reduced ones.
The walls are complete.
I have also altered the model by replacing the 2nd pair of doors at the rear of the engine shed with a solid wall, with a door and wooden extension in this new wall. The wooden extension as from the Pub kit which I converted into the hotel.
The water tank positioned in its location but not yet fixed as both the shed and tank will be painted separately before I fix the tank in place.
Keith.
Finished, apart from the glazing which I will do this evening, to allow the glue on the windows time to set.
As with the previous 3 kits, I will weather them when I come to attach them to the layout.
Keith.
Almost finished. 1st thing this morning I started by attaching the front door canopy.
Then I primered everything.
And then throughout the later morning and early afternoon I finished painting.
The doors and windows are painted ready to fit along with the glazing.
Keith.
Chimney now fixed in place. I have also added the ridge tiles, guttering and barge boards.
Keith.
