A Quiet Sunday

[Old Man Aaron]

I could swear there used to be a smiley for "what he said!"

Even the ground cover looks just right. You must be trimming it constantly?

[LNR]

Even the ground cover looks just right. You must be trimming it constantly?

I think all the chainsaw dust and chips have had some influence Aaron, this is a new type of growth.
To finish off the stockyard, the gates that swing out to close the gap between the cattle truck and the race needed replacing as made of wood and in the VR design of double timbering I was sick of painting them. Particularly between the doubled bits (alright for 12" to the foot scale) so made new ones out of 2mm styrene. They do look plastic but I hope a natural bit of weathering will take place. The old ones in the foreground of the pic.

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[LNR]

A week of sunshine has got me in a maintenance mood, so thought I would attack the turntable at Leawarra. The ply "ground" under the table had swollen up and was impeding the action of the table. Cut out some new ones, and two coats of paint saw them (two halves) ready to go back in. Removed the table and cleaned and replaced the grease in the ball bearings, spread some sand in a third coat of wet paint topped with another coat and Bob's your uncle.
Turntable underneath and bearings.

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The "pit" which looks a lot like a bicycle rim

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And the finished "ground"

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Grant.

[philipy]

Looks good Grant.
I think the plastic gates would be improved visually by "graining" them with a saw blade or similar. That would take the shiny plastic effect off and give somewhere for natural grot to accumulate. As usual Peter B is the man to emulate for things like this!

[Old Man Aaron]

Now there's a novel use for bike parts.

[LNR]

I think the plastic gates would be improved visually by "graining" them with a saw blade or similar.

Now it would have been really good if I had thought of that earlier.
slow thinking Grant.

[Andrew]

Now there's a novel use for bike parts.

I really liked that too!

[Andrew]

I think the plastic gates would be improved visually by "graining" them with a saw blade or similar.

Now it would have been really good if I had thought of that earlier.
slow thinking Grant.

I think I've used course sandpaper for finished parts where it's too late to take a saw to them. Hard to get in the corners, but it gives an impression...

Lovely to see pictures from your line Grant, always an inspiration!

[ge_rik]

I like the mechanism for the turntable. Neat bit of lateral thinking.

Rik

[SonDeb]

Smart !