Station Master House Garden Part 2 and Static Grass Part 2

 This morning I planted runner beans, a single tomato plant and some cabbages in the vegetable patch of the station masters house. 🫘🍅🥬

This afternoon I glued 4mm patchy static grass (the brown coloured areas), this now completes the static grass on this baseboard, I have also added a couple of patches of gorse. I will vacuum up the excess grass tomorrow, then I will add a few trees and some detailing which I can do with the baseboard back on its legs. 😊

11 more trees added this evening🌳🌲. I may add some more later, once I start placing them on the other 2 baseboards and I have any left over. 😊

Keith

Destructive Morning and Static Grass Part 2

Destructive morning today!! Grrrrrrrr!

I was going to continue with laying more static grass, but for some reason I looked at the stone wall between the track and the station masters house and thought "IT IS VERY CLOSE TO THE TRACK!".

I dug out a railway carriage and yes, the wall was way too close 😢. I have had to move it back by 10mm!!🥹.

I reshaped the flowerbed in the rear garden taking up a bit of the lawn by moving the brick edging. Similarly with the flowerbed in the front garden but fortunately it was quite wide so trimming it back did not needed the brick edging to be moved. All the wall reglued in it's new better position.

Front flower bed deflowered and wall moved back

Rear flower bed deflowered, brick edging moved to allow space for the wall to be moved back

The complete wall now moved back

Ballast laid between the track and the stone wall

Front garden replanted and excess ballast vacuumed up

Rear garden replanted and excess ballast vacuumed up

Static grass laid from the tunnel portal round to the 1st point

Static grass in and around the castle ruins

Final sections of static grass laid on the front edge of the baseboard

Keith

Static Grass Part 1

This afternoon I made a start on the static grass on the embankment behind the station masters house, above the tunnel portal and the small piece of embankment the other side of the tunnel.

I have used the 2mm high base grass at this stage, 4mm and 6mm grass in patches will be added later.

I have to leave it for the glue to harden before vacuuming up the loose material, which can be reused.

View of the whole area grassed today

From left to right, the small piece of embankment beside the tunnel portal

Behind the tunnel portal

From the tunnel portal to the station masters house

From the station masters house to the gate

16:00 UPDATE:- Castle mound embankment other side of the road now grassed. 😁

20:00 UPDATE:-  Piece of land between the rear of the bank and the castle ruins now grassed.

Keith

Station Master House Garden Part 2

 I have finished planting the front and rear gardens of the station masters house, just the veg patch to do when the vegetables arrive by post. 🌺🌸🌼🌹🪻🌾

Front flowerbeds now finished

Rear flowerbed also finished

Keith

Static Grass Week

 Having had problems with static grass on my previous layout, yesterday, I prepared a piece of the foam I used to created the castle mound as a test piece. First I painted it with the brown paint I used on the layout, I divided it into 4 sections (P.S. I should have taken a photo of it to show the dividing lines which can just about be seen). 1 section I left painted, the 2nd I applied ordinary PVA glue, the 3rd I used the new static grass glue I bought last week and the 4th had the old static grass glue I still had. I wanted to see which surface was most successful. First thing this morning I applied some static grass before going to our Medical centre to give a blood sample,  Upon returning home, as can be seen from the result, all 4 were the same, so the painted but untreated with glue option it is then, which will save a lot of extra work and glue.

Having dragged out my Black & Decker Workmate Workbox which houses all my static grass and 3 applicators, I am going to use it as a stool 🪑 whilst applying the grass.

2 of the 3 applicators I have which I will be using (the 3rd is specific for different use) and the hoard of various colours and sizes of static grass

I have found a spare pillow to sit on it, and a dust sheet spread underneath ready to start applying static grass tomorrow.

Keith

Station Master House Gardening

 Gardening day today around the station masters house.

Lawn laid in the rear garden

Some bushed lurking under the copper beech

From a different angle

From another angle

Bushes and plants in front of the station masters house

Group of sunflowers planted in the back garden

Keith

Station Masters House Driveway and Rear Garden Part 2

 I wasn't very happy with the results of the driveway of the station masters house, after vacuuming up the loose material it was very patchy, so this afternoon I have put down a second coat of glue and scatter material🤞🤞, don't worry about it is very lumpy, once the glue has set and the loose material vacuumed up it will level out.

 It is too hot to do any more today. 🌞

So much for that theory, when I said I wasn't going to do any more today, I lied! Earth material glued in the rear garden of the station masters house, for the vegetable patch between the house and greenhouse, and the flowerbed alongside the stone wall. 

20:00 UPDATE:- Loose material on the driveway vacuumed up.

Loose material on the flowerbed and vegetable patch vacuumed up and 2 beehives glued in place on the edge of the vegetable patch.

Brick built barbeque glued in place behind the station masters house.

Keith

Trees and Station Masters Rear Garden

 First tree glued onto the layout behind the signal box this morning, a copper beech, first of many.

Just some of the many trees I have available.

The remaining trees, so quite a few to choose from for the whole layout.

A pack of York Stone paving arrived in the post today.

A piece of the York Stone paving cut to fit behind the station masters house as a patio area.

Sprayed with primer.

2nd tree fitted beside the castle ruins, it is half-relief.

2nd piece of York Stone paving cut to fit to create a path to the greenhouse.

Sprayed with primer.

Both pieces of paving weathered and glued in place, brick edging for the flowerbed glued in place.

Final piece of stone walling from the rear of the house to the rear of the greenhouse.

Keith

Point Rodding Part 2

 I primered then painted the point rodding and the under track pipe🖌️, this completes the point rodding on this baseboard, I just need to add some ballast around it. 😊

Point rodding and under track tube in front of the signal box painted

Point rodding and under track tube opposite the signal painted

Point rodding at the other point painted

All the point rodding painted

After lunch I carefully applied glue around the point rodding and sprinkled ballast on it.

In front of the signal box

The entire run of ballast under the point rodding

Excess ballast vacuumed up

Flowerbed earth glued down in the front gardens of the stationmasters' house

Viewed from the other side

Excess earth vacuumed up, just needs some plants, bushes and tree

Keith