This week I continued work on the Old Cassino Dairy building. Basically, I got all my scenery material out on Monday and prepared the site. I was running out of various coloured dirts provided in various individual plastic bags for scenery. But before old Mike passed away, he gave me a few ice-cream buckets full of various coloured dirts and sands. I cut up some styrene to be used as simulated concrete underneath the shed awning of the Dairy building. This styrene was painted a concrete colour that I had sitting in my paint stand.
On Tuesday I started spreading some dirts around the siding. All the way up the headshunt, back through the Dairy siding, up until the road crossing between the Dairy and the Old Cassino Station, the dirts were scattered. This was glued down using a pipette dribbling wet diluted PVA glue over the dirts. The pieces of concrete around the shed awning were then glued in with PVA glue. Basically the next step was to bring the ground level up to the required level next to the concrete pads and replace the use of ballast with dirts and grasses. As my photos show lots of grass around this track on the prototype, I applied a couple of colours of various greens and yellow scatters to bring the dirt to life. This was allowed to dry. I also installed the 5 small concrete bases to go around the posts for the dairy shed awning supports. These were also glued in.
Attention has now turned to Lismore station. On Tuesday night I got online with a few of the Tuesday Nighters, and we were discussing the various photos of Lismore platform that I had. I was planning to building the modern station awning at the southern end of the platform. That was easy. We agreed to some metrics after looking at Google Maps. We guessed the height of the structure after viewing various angles and taking into account the other structures on the platform. The next dilemma was the weatherboard structure next to the awning. It looked like an out-of-shed, or other storage shed on the platform. We guessed its dimensions, and its height.
Building the awning on Wednesday was quite straight forward. Building the skillion roofed building took some more guesses. Thursday was spent doing some work on some detail items for the layout. I went looking for some more of the witches’ hats that Greg Beal 3D prints. He does 10 for $2 for the small size. I think he does 10 for $5 for the larger ones. They actually come in orange, and after tidying up the flash from the print, are immediately placeable on the layout. I then tidied up two ornate bath tubs, which Greg also 3D prints. 2 for $2. I then tidied up his old agitator washing machine with wringer. This is sold for $3. These items got a short coat of appliance white on Friday in between rain showers.
As I’m working on Lismore station, I had to put in the carpark behind the platform. I used a 1.5mm balsa base that I stained with ink pad ink and metho. I had to mix up a new brew of stain. I just pour in some metho and then pour in some ink pad ink. It needs to have enough ink to make the balsa go black and not blue. I drew up a small car park to scale on a piece of paper, and after working out how much space I had behind the platform back to the sky board, I narrowed the distance between the two rows of parking, and the whole car park could fit in. This was transferred onto the balsa wood. I use 0.040” x 0.010” styrene strip as the white lines in the car park. I used 0.080” angle for the curbing. This angle can be bent to form the various curved gutter corners in the carpark if you take it easy. The styrene is welded to the balsa by using styrene glue and soaking it.
Today, the area between the carpark and the existing scenery at Lismore was today converted from virgin baseboard into scenery. The ground is painted a dirt colour. Next, dirts are scattered over eth area, and then the various grass colours added. I have also obtained about 20 trees that will eventually populate the area. The trees will be planted next week. Today I also painted another couple of square feet of raw baseboard around the Lismore to Murwillumbah spiral with a ground colour before further scenery work is undertaken. I also painted up the Lismore station awning. I also painted the roof and the skillion roofed platform building. I have yet to paint the window white and the doors white. These will be planted on the scene early next week.
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