Station Master House Gardening 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

Station Masters House Driveway and Start of Point Rodding

 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.

Then I made a start on laying the point rodding. 😊

First piece of point rodding fixed in place and under track tube for the next section fixed in place.

2nd piece of under track tube on the far side of the track.

Point rodding now completed on this baseboard

 Keith

Small Tasks Day

 Today I have started to tackle a number of small tasks now the major building work is completed on the first baseboard.

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

On my old layout I cut strips of bricks to create borders between the flowerbeds and pathways/drives/lawns

So I have cut similar strips of bricks ready to create borders for the large house

I haven't been happy with the joint of the 2 halves of half-relief banks I joined together

I have cut a piece of emery cloth to fit over the roof

I then glued it down with Evo Stik using a handy weight to keep it pressed down

I joined to half downpipes together and sprayed them with primer

Once the glue had set on the roof I used Polyfilla to fill the gaps in the low parapet

After an hour I painted the downpipe gloss black

I painted the walkway brown

I rubbed the PolyFilla down on the bank roof and painted the low parapet grey

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.

Walkway weathered and glued in front of the signal box

Roof of the bank weathered as recommended by some fellow modellers

Keith