After borrowing a packet of Styrene from PK on last Sunday afternoon, I got started cutting it up on Monday. Initially I put together 4 frames and the packet was gone. These frames were for my 1:10 scale models of the modules for my future layout. On Tuesday afternoon I received a text that my styrene order had come in. That meant that Wednesday morning was a drive to Corinda station followed by a train trip to Ipswich.
Previously at Ipswich station there was this strange signal on platform 2 that I had talked about before.
When I was coming home from Ipswich, I saw a "Special" come into platform 2 at Ipswich and sit there. Platforms 1 and 2 were closed as they were painting the platform, so we were on platforms 3 and 4 for our trains. I saw the signal in question on platform 2 light up, with the route indicator first, then it went from red to yellow to green.
While I was at Ipswich I picked up 5 packets of styrene and when I got home, I made up another 6 scale model modules. Attention now must turn for my non-standard modules. So at this point in time, I have assembled everything except the last module for the branch line around to the stabling/staging.
Today was the day that I added legs to all my scale model modules for my new exhibition layout. They look quite good. I still need to build the last module.
I received an email from Brad in Lismore on Monday afternoon helping me with the size of the extension on the Old Casino station building. He said that there were 18 sheets of iron on the roof on that section of the building. That was a great start. With each sheet being 760mm when overlapped, that made the station building extension about 12.16m long. In HO scale that is 139.6mm. With 2 doors and three windows to include in the front of the building extension, I can now try and guess the actual size of each item and the spaces between them all to fit into my 139.6mm. My initial calculations with a few tweaks, has the building coming out to 140mm in size. I will draw that up this coming week and see how it looks compared to the photos I have and see if I need to adjust anything, before I commit to cutting up a piece of styrene.
Thursday I had to ring Anthony and pull out of his Saturday Afternoon Ops session due to my persistent cough. I suggested that Darren could fill my place, if he was so inclined. After some new medication on Thursday night and Friday and Saturday, I still ventured over to the Bayside Exhibition on Saturday morning where I ran into Darren and Brendon on their way to the Ops Session. I also had a nice chat to numerous people at the Exhibition, some Bayside club members, Logan Club people, Action Club people, some mates I ran into people walking around and a number of various shop owners at the Exhibition.
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