Some Layout Scenery Work Continues

I spent time earlier this week going through all the DCC functions enabled on all of my locos.  I plan to create a loco card for each loco that has all the functions enabled listed for each loco.  I have realised that I have quite a few locos.  I went back each day and did a few more locos and put them into a document that can be printed out on a loco card.  I think I have done all of my locos now except the steam ones.

On Tuesday I did some track alignment activities on the sidings in Lismore Yard.  I use this location to store a number of partially built pieces of rollingstock.  The rollingstock was moved, the track was tacked down and on Wednesday I decided to spread some ballast and glue it all down.  Later on that day, the rail heads were cleaned and the rollingstock moved back into the various sidings.

A rather dark photo of Lismore Yard

The same location taken from the other end.

For quite some time, the area between Burringbah Tunnel and Murwillumbah has laying there dormant.  The scenery was plastered with only an initial layer of plaster on it.  I had wanted to install a traditional farm dam in that area.  I was less than satisfied with how I started out making a water dam.  So it has sat there unfinished for maybe 10 years.  So on Thursday morning I mixed up about 10-12 buckets of plaster and covered the area with more coats of plaster and fixed up the water dam that I had tried to make in that area.  In the afternoon, I painted the plaster and it looks so much better already.  I need to scratch build a small shed to house the pump house for the dam.  I actually found a shed when going through a few boxes today.  When painted the area, I realised that I really needed to do some more maintenance on one end of the original end of the plaster work near Murwillumbah, so on Friday morning I mixed up another batch of plaster and used tissues to be covered in thin plaster to add an extra layer to the baseboard covering.  I then did another round of painting of the plaster in the afternoon.

The newly updated earth dam is in the centre.

I have been very slack lately in completing my models for the NMRA Convention.  I have to add brake piping and underfloor detail to my Australian National Rail carrying wagon to make Laurie happy.  I also need to complete the work to affix the roof to my QR 2050 class railmotor and then add the numbers.  I printed them out last night.  On Saturday I got around to adding the bogie sideframes to this model, which were design by Guy and printed by Luke.

I am also doing small bits of work around the layout.  I added some fencing to a block of land near the Leycester River outside Lismore. 

North of Lismore is this block of land with is being fenced.

I also have been doing some work on various old models I have of CPH railmotors.  I’m not sure if I will just sell this stuff or store it on a siding around the layout, or even put a chip in it and make it run.

South of Cassino is a new dilapidated and abandoned shop has sprung up.

The fettlers at Old Cassino are growing in number

I have also been going through my presentations for the upcoming NMRA convention in Brisbane later this month.  All of them got a few tweaks over the weekend.