Wednesday 16th February 2022

Worklist:

Review new office building.

Trim down second front profile strip including slide-in water feature board.

Paint track.

Fit steelwork in inspection pit.

Fit XPS 'road' foam in extended yard area.

Fit 'scenery' foam behind new fascia board.

Laurence had car problems again, so just Stephen & Geoff.

Stephen had developed the original managers house front into the general office. Sited next to the new, larger managers house, the pair worked well. 

The paper mache overlay to the trackside scenery was examined and a light sanding of the edges finished it off. The PVA top-coat had dried solid and looked good.

After a brief discussion to agree the ground line, Geoff set about jig sawing the profile board to shape. Part of the discussion included agreeing to lifting the road at the front so that there would be a slope down to the track at the yard entrance. 

The removeable water board also had to be taken into account. The ground sloping down to the water will be fixed to the edge/underside of the plywood board top.

Geoff then moved on to painting track and Stephen fitted the steelwork supporting the rails in the inspection pit. 

Stephen had modified the engine shed roof trusses to enable the inclusion of a smoke hood. After research, this took the form of a continuous box with a discharge louvre in the end wall. The hood will also provide a structure to mount the LED's for the interior lighting.

Yellow scenery foam was cut up and glued behind the front profile and weighted/clamped down. Tapered grey road foam was layered to form the slope down to the road. Small lumps of foam were glued around the quarry to represent dumped spoil heaps. Note the new office building and lengthened c/iron store leaving a small infill building to be developed.

Finally, the main building was cut down to its new size. (Yes, it was agreed that the larger depth building was to accommodate manual wagon exchange prior to deciding to extend the siding onto the fiddle yard). The area of road foam was extended to suit the new building size.