Hopefully I have worked it out, so now to the catchup.
Been working on the roadway to the station a bit more. It seems that 47mm does NOT equal 55mm. Absolutely no idea where I got 47mm for the platform width, given that I have it written down on the drawings that it is 55mm.
Ah well, a bit of cut and add....situation sorted.
I have just finished painting the Station building. No grouting colour has been added yet and I hope that when it is it will tone down the orange of the brickwork a bit more, otherwise I will have to repaint the brick quoins.
The colour of the stonework looks better than what I have done on the Goods shed, so the Goods shed will have to be darkened!
Just add it to the list of things to do.
I have missed putting in the pic so will show it later, of the station building painted.
Started the task of cutting individual slates, and have a nice collection, as can be seen below:
I started to put them on....what a pain/eyesore. Not sure how the pros do it but apart from driving me batty, it looked terrible. I can only think that I wasn't allowing enough gap between them. Some were OK but quite a few virtually joined as one with the Limonene.
Start again.
Did it in strips and has worked very well. Unfortunately I haven't taken a pic as yet of the slates in place on that roof.
Above is the carriage roof upside down. I had marked and grooved the underside of the shed roof a while back. The underside of the roof boards were laid at an angle.
At the moment this is as far as it is going to get until I can resort the steel, in this case the brass trusses that support the roof. I did use a jig to help locate them but with the movement of the styrenne, it hasn't been as good as it could have been so I have to realign a few of them, so that I can solder in the lengthwise ones and then the cross bearing ones.
Last but not least is a pic of the roof in place on the station building. Never mind the sanding block that is representing the platforn there. :)
Well that is the combined update, and I shall keep at it.
Really first class work on the overall roof. It looks very clean and precise. I know what you mean about the slates, I used to cut them from paper, but now I use the York Modelmaking strips. I also sympathise with you about the trials of Blogger, it is not always user-friendly or easy to fathom. I often end up trying to sort the layout in the HTML which for me is a bit like a bull in a china shop!
ReplyDeleteYes, I am reasonably happy with the topside of the shed roof. Had to wait to source longer wire for the metal trussing underneath. The standard precut wire was just ....that much to short, namely about 20mm. Mutter, mutter, mutter
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