With all the upheaval of moving baseboards around yesterday, I managed to damage the section of spear point fencing I had fixed between the Railway Inn and the track.
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| Before I damaged it |
Keith
Very busy morning and afternoon today, 8 legs each shortened by 8", and all 3 baseboards refitted with much needed assistance from my wife Jo.
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| 3 baseboards attached to the now shorter legs |
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| Buildings, vehicles, etc. placed temporarily on the layout |
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| Shelf fitted under the layout next to my workbench releasing much needed space on the workbench |
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| The view I now get of the layout whilst sitting on our bed |
Keith
Today I cleared the 2 baseboards still standing of all buildings, vehicles, etc.
Keith
Bench day today, seating area for Bob's Hot Dogs trailer, alongside the castle ruins
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| Single bench and single chair alongside the ruins |
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| 2 benches and gate at the station masters house |
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| 2 street lamps for this baseboard Keith |
I have had a change around this morning. My workbench used to be underneath the layout but I had trouble with the low headroom, and as I intend to reduce the height of the layout by 8" 200mm it wasn't going to work.
So I have turned it 90° and out from underneath the layout. I still have some further work to do to it, like adding a shelf underneath the layout for the controller and soldering iron to sit on which will free up space on the workbench.
Keith
For some reason I had only laid new ballast up as far as the point, so this morning I laid some more to finish it off.
Then I added some more small bushes on the embankment.
Keith
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. 😊
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.
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| Front flower bed deflowered and wall moved back |
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| Rear flower bed deflowered, brick edging moved to allow space for the wall to be moved back |
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| The complete wall now moved back |
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| Ballast laid between the track and the stone wall |
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| Front garden replanted and excess ballast vacuumed up |
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| Rear garden replanted and excess ballast vacuumed up |
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| Static grass laid from the tunnel portal round to the 1st point |
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| Static grass in and around the castle ruins |
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| Final sections of static grass laid on the front edge of the baseboard |
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.
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| View of the whole area grassed today |
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| From left to right, the small piece of embankment beside the tunnel portal |
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| Behind the tunnel portal |
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| From the tunnel portal to the station masters house |
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| 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 |
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. 🌺🌸🌼🌹🪻🌾
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| Front flowerbeds now finished |
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| Rear flowerbed also finished |
Keith
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.
I have found a spare pillow to sit on it, and a dust sheet spread underneath ready to start applying static grass tomorrow.
Keith
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 |
