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RogerB wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:13 am Nice job - and so fast. R-

That's the trouble with Steve - he thinks of something, and two minutes later it's done! Some of us require a two-week consultation period before we start waving tools about!

I’m afraid I work like Steve, not to the same standard, if I decide to change something I like it to be done within 24 hours.

Frustrated by the speed that glue dries. Fitted the point motors and ballasted this morning but I now have to wait for the glue.

No pics of wet ballast to show.............thankfully.

bulleidboy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:23 pm Some of us require a two-week consultation period before we start waving tools about!

Absolute minimum. R-

All patched in and painted but it needs some weeds to give it a bit of a lift.

20191101_115211 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

20191101_115147 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

Excellent. Real ash and coal?
Well done

Glencairn

glencairn wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 2:21 pm Excellent. Real ash and coal?
Well done

Glencairn

Ash from the MHR and coal from the K&WVR. And my bulk order of fluffy green stuff just arrived from TMC.

Nice job.

Steve M wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 2:30 pm
Ash from the MHR and coal from the K&WVR. And my bulk order of fluffy green stuff just arrived from TMC.

I got mine from the house we used to live in near the Border Counties Railway. Not as good as 'steam coal', but it will do.

Glencairn

Made a start on covering the hill at the other end of the layout.
Yesterday I hacked the polystyrene around a bit more to create a little more variety to the slope before making a few small rock faces using Woodland Scenics moulds and plaster of Paris.

20191103_102621 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

And having replenished my supply of plaster bandages I coated the hillside with PVA followed by the bandage. The rocks were stuck on with more p.o.P..

20191103_120144 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

Once this has hardened off a little I’ll finish encasing the polystyrene on all the other surfaces.