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Beautiful work David, the opening doors should make for some lovely platform photos with a door open and a passenger or two milling about.
Grant.

Rik, the bags on the water cranes are the hemmed parts from the sleeves of khaki cotton shirts, frayed at the bottom with an exacto knife. I use the shirt material for tarps and other "canvas" bits, and the hems were left overs that happened to prove useful.
Grant.

Thank you one and all for your kind comments, they are much appreciated. Makes lying around on the ground with blocks of wood or bricks for the camera to take photos all seem worth it. If I can inspire others that might make up for the inspiration and ideas I have gleaned from the forum in the past ...

The afternoon Pass. has been made up, and the Hunslet is about to top up with water before coupling up and heading off to Nayook ./myff/1979231/Railway+Scenes+051.jpg Later the same day, the pass. has returned, locos on shed, and all is quiet in the afternoon sunshine at Leawarra. ./myff/1979232/Rit...

Wow!, like Rik said that is some building. What is the approximate ground footprint of something like that? Plenty of scope for stone painting technique there as well.
Grant.

Well Andrew, given that I'm looking at the wall from the underneath and you say your error is low down, I can't see a thing wrong at all. I'm sure your the only one who will notice any difference if it exists. Great work, looking forward to the first track pics.
Grant.

Finally got some paint on the wagon, working on a format for a data panel for all my stock. Here it is on the turntable at Leawarra.


Grant.

The station and platform are looking good Andrew. I do love that station building, got quite an Australian look to it.
Grant.

Out of the shadows, in greener times.



The Lumberjack on its way back to Leawarra with a load of logs.

The candle shot reminds me of the pics. you see of crucible wagons in a steel making plant.
Grant.

Ah! the lengths we go to, just to run a railway. Don't worry Steven, it will all be worthwhile in the end.
Grant.
PS, looks like the rain returned as well in the last pic.

Just to clarify, the glue I use is white, dries clear, and is non foaming. It's called Gorilla Wood Glue. I guess I was wrong to say it was polyurethane based.(did say I wasn't a Chemist) It has certainly proved to be waterproof as I use it on my RC boats as well.
Grant.

Peter, I confess to having looked this up, despite being in the Marine game and tapping my barometer every morning. On an average monthly basis we run from a low around 58% in January, to mid 70% June, July. That said this summer just passed has had some very humid days with rain on top of the heat....

I have been using Gorilla Glue for some years now and have found it very successful. The type I have is I think Polyurethane based (I,m no Chemist) and non expanding. I kept reading about it, and it was new to the local hardware store, so thought I'd give it a try. I use it as you would a PVA type o...

Hi Peter,
Getting all the window openings the same size gets me in knots. You square up the corner of one then find it's lower, so they all have to come down. I prefer milling or routing in a jig now.
Grant.

That will look good on the end of a train. I like the fact that you put tumble-home on the lower sides of the carriage, always adds character.
Grant.

Finally got all the steel work for the NQ wagon done and riveted in place today. This includes time spent on hands and knees looking for so many pieces I have dropped on the floor. ./myff/1977335/NQ+Construction+9.jpg Pictured here with the older one. ./myff/1977336/NQ+Construction+8.jpg The sides o...

Now that is cute with a capital "C". Do hope the plastic pivot works for you. Would you envisage a bowl or some cover, to stop the pit filling with leaves etc. when not in use.
Grant.

"just a little bit of civil engineering" yeah! right Rik. Hate to see what you'd call heavy civil work then! What a drastic difference opening up that area has made. Modeling generally benefits from more space than we generally have available, but certain things can give the impression of ...

I'll second what has been said above Andrew, beautiful job, and meant in the nicest way, they look like they were built quite some time ago.
Grant.