After a great weekend of model railway activity in Toowoomba last weekend, I found it hard to do much this week. But I did find another bin chicken, scrub turkey, kangaroo and a wombat from Platform Printing, and gave them a paint. These items are ready to place on the layout.
My juices started flowing on Thursday when I started to put together what will become the weather protection in front my train shed entry. I assembled the two side lengths, (I already had the front and back steel beam lengths assembled. I then made a square box and screwed it all together. I plan on ordering 4 sheets for the roof and screw the three intermediate steel beams to support the roof when the roof sheeting gets here. I also assembled three intermediate beams to help stablise the shelter and keep it in square, and screw the roofing sheets to. Today I made a couple of trips to Bunnings and utilised my 5% discount from being an NMRA member with my Bunnings Powerpass card and purchased some steel strip to be used to tie the square box together with two diagonal braces, and also some fittings to help it sit the square box structure above the two posts it will balance upon. I should have my four roof sheets this week or next and then the three intermediate beams will be secured at the correct place inside the frame. I will need to call upon a couple of mates to help me hoist this thing up into the air as I screw it up in the air.
Late last week, there were a couple of really great photos posted on various Facebook Groups of trains on the Cougal Spiral. The views were very similar to what was on my layout. I model back in the late 80s early 90s and back then there were not many trees around this region. However those photos showed just a minute covering. So on Sunday morning, I went to my tree stash and picked out a few small trees and installed them around Cougal Spiral and between there and Border Loop. I was most impressed that this small number of maybe 20 odd trees made a big improvement to the areas concerned.
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