Gardens for 2 Thatched Cottages, Gates, and Thatched Cottages Fixed in Place

 With the road finished and the pavements laid I set about working on the gardens for the 2 thatched cottages at the front of the layout and made a set of gates for the driveway to the 2 large thatched houses.

Polyfilla applied to change the level of the pavement base and the baseboard

Once the Polyfilla had dried I smoothed it down with glasspaper

Then I painted the area brown

Stone wall between what will be the 2 gardens and the railway track

Having temporarily place the 2 cottages on, I noticed I was missing a small section of stone wall, now rectifed

Overall view of the gardens and the 2 cottages

I glued 2 gates together, constructed the third smaller pedestrian gate from a large one, then glued all 3 together

However, I have a dilemma, there are 2 different orientations I can place them in, straight across the entrance to the driveway or at an angle?

Straight across

At an angle

Bit of night work this evening has seen the creation of crazy paving around the 2 thatched cottages cut to size, glued in place, then the 2 cottages glued down and a garage between them glued in place.

Final piece of stone wall to fill in the gap between the existing wall and the cottage

Keith

Road Surface on Final Baseboard Part 3, Final Pavements and Ballast Laying Part 10

 This morning, I applied glue down between the 2 tracks through the station and under the point rodding of the right-hand point at the front of the layout, then sprinkled ballast on it. I have not taken it all the way along the front of the layout as I am going to put static grass down there at the same time when I do the static grass on the 3rd baseboard.

Ballast underneath the point rodding

Ballast glued down between the 2 tracks at the station

 Then I painted the road surface asphalt colour.

After lunch, with the road surface paint now dry, I set about creating the last 2 sections of pavement on the 3rd baseboard.

Piece of board cut for the section of pavement continuing from the centre baseboard and the half-relief buildings at the rear of the layout

Final piece of board cut for the section of pavement continuing from the centre baseboard for the 2 thatched cottages

Superquick pavement papers cut and glued to the 2 pieces of board

Buildings temporarily in place to check alignment

View down the road

Final pavements glued down with Evo-Stik and handy weights used to keep it all flat

Keith

Road Surface on Final Baseboard Part 2

 Final 2 pieces of road surface (emery paper) cut and glued in place this evening. I have the driveway to the last 2 houses to make, which will be tarmac, to go on this baseboard but failing natural light has stopped play.

Section of road surface from the complex junction to the centre baseboard cut and glued in place

Last section of road surface at the end of the right-hand baseboard cut and glued in place

All 3 sections of road on the right-hand baseboard, this completes the road

Final section of emery paper as the driveway to the 2 large houses

All the roads now completed

Keith

White Cottage Part 2, Details on Platform and Start of Road surface on 3rd Baseboard

 Last night I vacuumed up the loose green flock for the lawns then put down the soil for the 2 flowerbeds of the white cottage and once the glue had dried enough, I vacuumed up the loose material, it was too dark to take photos so I have taken 1 this morning after we got back from Warwick Hospital.

After lunch I got quite a lot done on the centre baseboard finishing all the major work on it, with just detailing to finish, then I moved onto the 3rd and final baseboard creating the complex junction in the road 😊

3 trees planted in this part of the garden of the white cottage and a rockery and flower tub glued on the platform

Another flower tub

Another rockery

2 more flower tubs

2 more trees in the white cottage garden

All 5 trees

Vegetables and fruit bushes in the veg patch

Flowers in the flowerbeds

The gardens of the white cottage now completed

Post-box on the platform

Telephone kiosk on the platform

Detail inside the telephone kiosk

Template made from card for complex part of the road on the 3rd and final baseboard

Emery paper cut from the template and glued in place

Handy weights to keep the emery paper down flat whilst the glue sets

Handy weights to keep the emery paper down flat

Keith

White Cottage and Other Bits

 Today I have been doing work on the last building to go on the centre baseboard and a few small tasks whilst I wait for the ballast glue I applied yesterday to dry.

I have had to put my anglepoise lamp above my workbench as now we are moving through Autumn then into Winter the natural light is not always ideal

Crazy paving pathway and foundation along pavement side cut and glued in place for the last building to go on this centre baseboard

Cottage temporarily sited for fit

The other side

A splash of brown paint on the pavement from when I painted the baseboard

Now it's gone!

Crazy paving weathered and cottage glued in place

Section of stone wall between newspaper kiosk and the cottage

gate and stone wall alongside the pavement on the other side of the cottage, and dividing stone wall between gardens

Brickwork surround dividing flower beds and lawn this side of the cottage

Brickwork surround dividing flower bed and lawn on the other side of the cottage

lawn areas coated with glue then green flock sprinkled on

A pair of buffer beams arrived in the post this morning, 1 of them fixed to the end of the siding on the right-hand baseboard so I don't lose it!

With looking for small tasks to do whilst the ballast glue dries I needed to finish the edge of the left-hand baseboard adjacent the Railway Inn

Piece of paving cut and glued in place

The other side of the Railway Inn chimney breast needed sorting

This flower bed sits in the space nicely, but I have not glued it in place, it will just sit here and can be removed if and when I need to split the baseboards apart

HADARFORD name board glued in place in front of the bicycle rack

The other name board glued against this station building and a seat with 2 passengers sitting on it glued in place

Keith