Coal yard detailing
Additional railings
Water tower roof
A switch to Friday this week as Wednesdays had become very busy.
Stephen had brought along some scratch-built items for the coal yard sales area - a set of scales with a 56lb weight, a pile of sacks with a club hammer weight, a sign board and some full sacks of coal.
The scales are all plasticard and the sacks squares of old shirt material coloured with a large permanent marker. The polyester content in the shirt meant that creases kept disappearing, so some experiments with other materials might be undertaken. We discussed pre-bagged smokeless coal and decided that the modelling period of approx. 1963 would make them feasible.
The sleeper wall design for the staithes had been agreed previously, but on being laid out, the possibility of adding more and higher sleeper walls to the rear, for extra storage was agreed. The idea being that the low front wall (to suit the wagon doors) wouldn't contain much coal without spreading a long way, whereas a higher back wall would allow coal to be shovelled up there for storing. Two layers of sleepers were glued down and left to set.
With all the details in place, the proximity of the head shunt track and moving loco's, led to the decision to add a railing fence between the track and the 'public' coal area, which Geoff started to assemble.
Laurence continued with the water tower roof.
