Painting has progressed nicely this morning.
Keith.
Monday, 12 June 2017
Sunday, 11 June 2017
Engine Shed & Coaling Stage 4
Base coat of light grey which is for the mortar between the brickwork and stonework and the concrete platform of the coaling stage and the water tank support.
Keith.
Saturday, 10 June 2017
Engine Shed & Coaling Stage 3
Both engine shed and coaling stage primered ready for painting tomorrow.
Keith.
Friday, 9 June 2017
Coaling Stage 2
Today I constructed and added the brick steps. The coaling stage is now ready for painting.
Keith.
Thursday, 8 June 2017
Coaling Stage 1
Today I constructed the coaling stage to go with the engine shed. It needs a set of steps to complete it.
Keith.
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Tuesday, 6 June 2017
Engine Shed Kit 1
Today I made a start on building an engine shed. Yesterday I received in the post a Wills Kit of a standard gauge engine shed, which needed modifying to suit my narrow gauge layout. To this effect I had planned to reduce the length and height, but I decided to keep the width as changing this would have been impossible to adapt the supplied doors to fit. I hop that it will look alright when finished. First thing was to cut down 2 of the doors from which the height of the shed could then be determined. The 2 doors in the centre are the original height and the 2 outside doors are the reduced ones.
The walls are complete.
I have also altered the model by replacing the 2nd pair of doors at the rear of the engine shed with a solid wall, with a door and wooden extension in this new wall. The wooden extension as from the Pub kit which I converted into the hotel.
The water tank positioned in its location but not yet fixed as both the shed and tank will be painted separately before I fix the tank in place.
Keith.
