Gateway
Tunnel lights
Details
Model shop
Geoff worked on the gateway brickwork, and the curved coping in particular. A simple jig made from aluminium angle allowed him to scribe the radial joints AND perpends for the 'brick-and-a-half' coping.
Geoff has decided on balls for the pier cap features. Wood? Why use wood, when you know you have some bronze ball bearings somewhere (these, rather than stainless steel, are drill-able, for a locating pin).
Stephen managed to mix up some paint to match the stonework - kitchen pale yellow matt vinyl, with touches of dark brown and black poster paint. With the aid of a bent paintbrush, the inside of the tunnel was finished off. This had to be completed before the tunnel lights could be installed. But this will have to wait until next week.
With the work-spaces taken up, Laurence transferred his efforts to sorting through all of the boxes used to hold bits and pieces that had been taken (or fallen) off the layout. Things like tools and equipment from the workshop, doors, buckets, chains etc. These were sorted into wanted or unwanted on the future layout, and will be refurbished ready for reuse.
After lunch, it was decided to make a visit to Model Junction - a railway model shop on the Slough Trading Estate. L & S were in need of some Kadee couplings, which the shop had a decent supply of.
Model Junction
