Having spent this morning from 10:00am to 2:00pm at the Warwick Repair Café, I had to make a late start on the layout, but have managed to lay all the remaining ballast, which is all ready for gluing tomorrow.
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| Ballast laid from the level crossing to between the 2 thatched houses |
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| Continued around to just behind the half-relief buildings |
Keith
Last sections of stone wall arrived in the post today, all glued in place. Started laying ballast on the 3rd and final baseboard.
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| Continuing the stone wall from where I had left off around behind the 2 thatched houses |
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| Stone wall all the way around to the rear of the half-relief buildings |
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Ballast laid from the centre baseboard to the level crossing (albeit I actually laid it in the other direction being left-handed  )Keith |
Gardening day this afternoon, creating a wood area and completing the last 2 cottage gardens.
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Working out where the trees  will go to make the woods, they are not glued in place as I have to grass the area first. |
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| 3 plant pots at the white thatched cottage |
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| Corner flowerbed in the garden of the middle cottage |
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| Same cottage, flowerbed bordering the railway track |
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| Fruit bushes and cabbages in the last cottage |
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| Runner beans and cauliflowers in the veg patch of the righthand cottage |
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| The complete right-hand cottage garden |
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| All the cottage gardens now completed |
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| Gas cylinder storage cabinet glued behind the Railway Inn |
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| Table/bench unit glued in the garden of the middle thatched cottage |
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| Playing about with the position of a rockery and garden furniture, but not glued in place |
Keith
Some stone wall arrived in the post today, but unfortunately not enough so I have had to order some more, hence more detailing this afternoon and I glued in place the new stone walling that had arrived.
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| Solar panels added to the roof of the Railway Inn |
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| Single solar panel added to the roof of this thatched house on its tiled roof |
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| Communications cabinet near the level crossing |
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| Communications cabinet outside Harold's Larder |
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| Communications cabinet near the offside bus shelter |
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| Communications cabinet near the cycle rack |
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| Coal bunker and bins glued in place at the white thatched cottage |
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| I added the housewife hanging out her laundry assisted by her daughter and a bench |
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| Bins glued in place behind this thatched cottage |
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| Coal bunker and bins glued in place at this thatched cottage |
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| Pair of bins glued in place behind this thatched house, the other pair are not glued down yet |
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| 2 passengers added to this bench on the platform |
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| Section of stone wall from the level crossing to the front of the layout |
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| Remainder of the stone wall that arrived today between the track and one of the thatched houses |
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| Earth glued in the garden of this thatched cottage |
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| Earth glued in the garden of this thatched cottage where a bare patch appeared |
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| Trees added to these 2 gardens |
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| I forgot to take a photo of the piece of stone wall I glued in place between the 2 cottages, hence why the tree trunk is in the photo |
Keith
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| Paving slabs behind Harold's Larder |
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| As seen from the front of the layout |
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| Storage shed glued behind Harold's Larder |
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| Earth material glued in the gardens of this thatched cottage |
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| Earth material glued in one of the gardens of this thatched house |
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| 1 new gate |
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| The other new gate |
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| As seen from the roadside |
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| Washing line glued in place behind this thatched cottage |
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| Barbeque behind this cottage |
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| Fire buckets hanging on their hooks on the station platform |
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| 1 wooden beer barrel, 10 beer kegs and 2 pallets and extra bins added behind the Railway Inn |
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| This lawn did not go well, for some reason it did not stick to the glue |
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| The same with this lawn |
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| Yet this one was OK, same paint on the baseboard, same glue same flock, a mystery |
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| I added this building at the level crossing for the crossing staff |
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| Further section of hedge alongside the track |
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| A further application of a different glue and more flock |
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| The same for this garden |
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| Pathway from the front to the back garden created for one of the large thatched houses |
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| Final section of hedge |
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| Belisha beacons wired up to a battery pack |
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| After returning from the hospital, 2nd attempt at the lawn went well after vacuuming up the loose flock |
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| The same for this cottage |
