Well our plans for this weekend were certainly scrapped at short notice on Friday morning. We had planned to visit a fellow modeller’s place and have an Operations Session on Saturday. However, that outing was cancelled when Brisbane was placed into Lockdown for 3 days from 6:00pm Friday evening. So not to be 100% beaten, we retired to our online forum on Saturday morning and into the afternoon, with us all online talking and doing some modelling activities. Well I was watching cricket in the background as well.
While this online activity was occurring, I was getting phone calls and texts from someone, exchanging emails from someone else and having Facebook Messenger messages from someone else. So lots occurring on Saturday while sitting on the PC all locked up. In the arvo I mowed the grass and assembled a new stand for the printer in the kid’s playroom, as the old location for the printer has now been replaced with a second monitor by the main user of the PC in that room - the young gamer in the house.
While I was at work on Thursday, PK visited to drop off 7 packets of styrene that he purchased from me so I could do some more pallet construction – among other things. During this week on Thursday and Friday evening, I completed adding the bracing on my 20,000 gallon water tank. On Saturday after talking to someone online and showing off some photos I took back in 1988 of the real tank from The Risk crossing loop, I realised that the tank was painted grey/silver before it rusted away. So on Saturday I painted it grey primer, before I weathered it with Rusty Brown paints. Also on Friday evening I cut up about 230 strips of styrene to make another run of 78 pallets.
Back on the topic of the water tank stand, I still need to build the front stand attachment to the water tank stand, and add some water pipes. I was given some information on the pipe sizes required on Saturday on the phone by Cliff.
Another task that I am also working on is trying to add some roof mounted whirly-birds to two 12m x 6m steel sheds on the layout. Now there is no use just having these ventilators on a building if they are not going to rotate in the wind. So I am designing a motor assembly and drive train so the two whirly-birds in each shed rotate. PK has given me this challenge, and he has made it even more difficult, as he also wanted a squeaking sound to come from the shed when the whirly-birds rotate. First things first. Now also wanting detail items of some things very different and the first one of everything, I am thinking of having these whirly-birds rotate at two different speeds. A slow speed and a slightly faster speed. We will see how this develops. Brad has done a fantastic job in designing and printing these whirly-birds. I’m sure they will be available online very soon.
The other activity from last week, was adjusting the sidings in Kyogle, and moving the Veneer factory. here is shot of that area.
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