Stream-ing

Hi,

Some great progress yesterday and tonight, tempered by a slight accident...

The two streams emanating from the side of the Waunfawr end water tower have been drawn in from photographs and jigsawed out. Two bits of 6mm ply were then cut and glued underneath, giving the streams their base and banks - easy, or so I thought!

I was just filing away the last few bits of plywood and the file slipped, pulling up 12 sleepers worth of track! The next 40 mins or so was therefore taken in stripping off sleepers, adding replacements, and tacking the track down again. In doing so it was necessary to cut the track and after a while messing around with trying to get metal rail joiners to fit (they are really difficult as found earlier), I gave up and used insulated joiners. This may actually be a good move anyway as it will allow a loco sat in the platform to be isolated, whilst perhaps another is tailed on the back...

Other progress has been the cutting out of a section of the Fridd Isaf access track/road and the gluing of it in place with a slight incline up towards the end of the board. Also 4 pieces of hardboard were cut to act as the sides of the traversers and I hope to nail these on asap.

Two pillars to help support the roof of the square board have been added, complete with extra support from two brackets and finally I bowed to pressure and cut a small strip off the 3 foot backscene piece to make the 3ft and 4ft backings the same height (as mentioned in a previous post).

Colin