Final Lawns and Flowerbeds

 Last night I laid down the final lawns for the 2 thatched houses, this morning I vacuumed up the loose material then laid the final flowerbeds with earth material. I vacuumed up the loose earth material, this now almost completes all the gardens. Just need some bushes, flowers, fruit and veg patches and maybe some trees. 😁

Large flowerbed for this house

Lawn and flowerbed behind it

Lawn and flowerbeds for the 2nd and final house

Right round behind the 2nd house

Roadside garden of 1 of the 2 thatched houses

Part of the trackside garden of the same house

Remaining gardens of the same house

Gardens of the last thatched house completed

Keith

 A special day today, it's 1 year ago today that I started to work on my new layout in our flat, so quite fitting that I should complete the final major work today with laying the last sections of static grass. I do have to complete the gardens of the 2 thatched houses, but I don't class that as 'major' work, then it is down to adding lots of small details, people, animals etc. Happy 1st birthday new Hadarford 🎂 🎉. 

I have corrected a mistake and started work on the last 2 gardens.

2 sections of static grass on the town side of the level crossing

Static grass alongside the track from the level crossing past one of the thatched houses

Continuation of the static grass alongside the track past the second thatched house

New noticeboard on the wall of Harold's Larder, I have had to place it here because when I glued the communications cabinet in place the Evo Stik made the green paint on the cabinet smear on the wall!

Final flowerbed borders glued in place

Keith

Final Static Grass

 Almost the last major work on Hadarford this afternoon with static grass applied along the front edge of the central baseboard and large areas of the righthand one. I know my trees in the woods look a bit strange, I removed the trees temporarily to be able to apply the grass but needed to mark the fixing holes drilled in the baseboard. I did this on my previous layout and it worked well, having left the grass for a while to set I then glued the trees in the wood.

Part of the front edge of the central baseboard grassed with 2mm long spring grass

Bit more of the front edge done

Bit more of the front edge done

Final very thin bit of the central baseboard grassed

First part of the 3rd baseboard grassed

Field area of the final baseboard grassed with some longer (4mm in length) patchy grass on top of the base 2mm spring grass

Woods area grassed with 2mm then 4mm patchy grass

2 fields grassed will 2mm spring then 4mm patchy

Kerb side 2mm spring grass either side of the road and corner of the next field

Trees glued in the woods

Keith

Half-Relief Trees and Gluing Ballast

 I started this morning with fitting half-relief trees to the top edge of the rock face, drilled holes for the trees in the woods apart from the 2 small oak trees which I have had to glue into place, I then applied the ballast glue to the last section of track.

Half-relief trees along the top of the rock face

Holes drilled and trees fitted in them

You can see the holes I drilled, the 2 small oak trees however have fixed root growth so I have had to glue them in place, I have removed the other trees ready for static grass application

Ballast glue applied to the track from the baseboard joint to the level crossing

Ballast glue applied from and including the level crossing round behind the 2 thatched houses

Ballast glue applied to behind the half-relief buildings

Glue has lost it white look

Glue has lost it white look

Glue has lost it white look

Keith

Final Ballasting

 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.

Ballast laid from the level crossing to between the 2 thatched houses

Continued around to just behind the half-relief buildings

Keith

Final Stone Walling and Ballast Laying

 Last sections of stone wall arrived in the post today, all glued in place. Started laying ballast on the 3rd and final baseboard.

Continuing the stone wall from where I had left off around behind the 2 thatched houses

Stone wall all the way around to the rear of the half-relief buildings

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

 Gardening day this afternoon, creating a wood area and completing the last 2 cottage gardens.

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.

3 plant pots at the white thatched cottage

Corner flowerbed in the garden of the middle cottage

Same cottage, flowerbed bordering the railway track

Fruit bushes and cabbages in the last cottage

Runner beans and cauliflowers in the veg patch of the righthand cottage

The complete right-hand cottage garden

All the cottage gardens now completed

Gas cylinder storage cabinet glued behind the Railway Inn

Table/bench unit glued in the garden of the middle thatched cottage

Playing about with the position of a rockery and garden furniture, but not glued in place

Keith