Blog Post Number 900

This post is Blog post number 900.  This week I did some further work on the Cassino refreshment rooms building.  I cut out the back platform side of the building.  Oh and did I make some mistakes!  I have plugged those up, and hopefully no one will ever know that they are on the building.  So I have also seen my 3D window producer (Greg - at Saturday's Club meeting) and he was going to look at producing the windows for the building.  I need 25.  I really did not want to scratch build that many windows.  I only had about 4 of the similar windows from the AMRI station building available.  I'm not smart enough to do a loaves and fishes trick with those 4 windows.  I also painted up the next 22 platform awning supports today.  These were 3D printed by Greg some weeks ago, from a master that I created for him.

On Friday I painted up over 80 pallets in four different 'natural wood based' colour schemes.  These look quite nice.  While watching 'The Great Race' on TV today, I cut up and made another 54 pallets.  These have yet to be painted, maybe a job for later this week.  I will get around to making another 50-odd pallets next week.

After the race, I went down to the shed and ran my track cleaning train from Fisherman Islands to Grafton Yard and stabled it there.  I needed to ensure that the track was sort of runable for Tuesday when the guys come over to my place.  I also fixed one small section of fence that had been broken by someone.

Tomorrow a few of us are going train tripping out to Rosewood and then to Springfield for morning tea and lunch on our $0.50 fares.

Catching Up

Following more activities yesterday, I now have some time on my hands to catch up on my blog.  Over the previous week, I started measuring out the sides for the Cassino Refreshment Rooms.  I also built the intermediate roof supports for the breezeway between the station building and the refreshment room.  I also cut out and painted the northern end of the refreshment rooms and added the brick section to it.  I cut out the end door.  I also cut out the southern end of the building and added the required window.  The slow mark out of the front and back of the Refreshment rooms revealed some detail that I had not previous noticed.  But all my photos showed this feature.  Some windows were placed higher from the ground in the building.  I then slowly cut out the front side doors and windows.  I then joined the northern and southern ends to the front side of the building.  I also installed some initial internal walls for the various rooms and some spacers to keep the front and back sides parallel.  I still need to cut out the rear platform side.

On Tuesday evening PK brought over my two 12mm locos.  I had one 1460 class and one 1502 class with sound.  The first loco was put on the track on Wednesday morning and ran well and sounded brilliant.  The second one was put on the track and it sounded like it was revving up, but did not move.  So after lunch I put it on the programming track and saw that the momentum CV's 3 and 4 were both set to 32.  I thought this value was too high.  So I set them down much lower and when I put it back on the track, the loco ran.  I then checked the first loco and it had those CVs set to 32.  So I then set the troublesome loco's CVs back to 32 and it now ran just like the first.  I had no idea what the initial cause was?  But it was now working.  So the 1502 class loco is now assigned to my SX set and the 1460 class loco is on a coal train sitting in Acacia Ridge Yard.

On Friday night, Darren, Geoff and I ventured to Brendan's place for a great meal (thanks Alex) and a modelling night.  While there was a small amount of driving and shunting occurring on his layout, we never got around to doing any modelling.  We just sat around the table, had a few sherbets and solved all the world's problems.  Saturday was also when Darren and I went to a local Buy and Sell event.  There were not many sellers, not many buyers, but there were some bargains to be had.  Two other members of our Tuesday crew were there and both secured some good buys.

Yesterday was Sunday - Whoops!

 Well it finally happened.  I forgot to post an update on Sunday evening for the first time in about 10 years.  It previously hadn't mattered that I was OS, interstate for just lounging at home, but I had always posted a blog update.  Yesterday I just plain forgot.  This retirement thing must have slowed me down, along with a NRL football final and other things going on - like the wife's Birthday, a relative going to hospital, etc.

No excesses, But I will post a real update in the next day or two.  I can't even remember what I did last week.