Gardening day today around the station masters house.
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| Lawn laid in the rear garden |
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| Some bushed lurking under the copper beech |
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| From a different angle |
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| From another angle |
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| Bushes and plants in front of the station masters house |
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| Group of sunflowers planted in the back garden |
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.
Brick built barbeque glued in place behind the station masters house.
Keith
First tree glued onto the layout behind the signal box this morning, a copper beech, first of many.
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. 😊
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| Point rodding and under track tube in front of the signal box painted |
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| Point rodding and under track tube opposite the signal painted |
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| Point rodding at the other point painted |
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| All the point rodding painted |
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| In front of the signal box |
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| The entire run of ballast under the point rodding |
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| Excess ballast vacuumed up |
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| Flowerbed earth glued down in the front gardens of the stationmasters' house |
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| Viewed from the other side |
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| Excess earth vacuumed up, just needs some plants, bushes and tree |
This morning I created the garden borders in front of the station masters house using the strips of bricks I cut the other day. 😊
This afternoon I glued down the driveway surface in front of the station masters house.
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| First piece of point rodding fixed in place and under track tube for the next section fixed in place. |
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| 2nd piece of under track tube on the far side of the track. |
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| Point rodding now completed on this baseboard |
Today I have started to tackle a number of small tasks now the major building work is completed on the first baseboard.
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| First I sprayed with primer the walkway which will go in front of the signal box so staff can cross safely over the point rodding |
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| On my old layout I cut strips of bricks to create borders between the flowerbeds and pathways/drives/lawns |
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| So I have cut similar strips of bricks ready to create borders for the large house |
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| I haven't been happy with the joint of the 2 halves of half-relief banks I joined together |
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| I have cut a piece of emery cloth to fit over the roof |
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| I then glued it down with Evo Stik using a handy weight to keep it pressed down |
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| I joined to half downpipes together and sprayed them with primer |
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| Once the glue had set on the roof I used Polyfilla to fill the gaps in the low parapet |
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| After an hour I painted the downpipe gloss black |
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| I painted the walkway brown |
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| I rubbed the PolyFilla down on the bank roof and painted the low parapet grey |
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| I fitted the downpipe I made and painted earlier, it's main objective was to hide the join between the 2 parts of the bank, the join at the other end of the bank is hidden by a chimney. |
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| Walkway weathered and glued in front of the signal box |
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| Roof of the bank weathered as recommended by some fellow modellers |
Keith
