Brush every day

John uses his tooth brush to clean the track in a tunnel.

nothing escapes John's brush

tooth brush taped to a stick for those hard to reach places

Rock Painting

It is quite amazing how a little colour applied to rock casting makes such a difference.

painting brings out textures

the rocks, base and road are now plain to see

Branch turntable

Ralph is working on putting a turntable at the mine end of the branch line. As the whole table turns in an unrealistic manner, he covered it with ground cover, great idea.

turntable

first coat of paint on rocks

Trent's Hill part 1

Trent is "Moving Beyond Intimidation" (see Don Hanley's article in MRH) as he works on a hill near the quarry.  He has moved outside his comfort zone to learn how to cut and install rock and wall castings, applying plaster cloth and coating it with plaster. When this step is done, he will try painting , adding a road, ground foam and trees. Many members have gave him help and encouragement and he is always happy to share his work with us.  By the time his project is complete, he will have grown a whole new skill set, good work Trent.

Trent hard at work

foam base and some rock castings in place

scenery support added



plaster added

Group Input

A few of us were looking at an oil loading platform setup that John had completed. It was noted that it was too bad that the actual loading areas were so close together. It was suggested he move a ladder from one end, add it to the other end, and turn that section around to separate them a little, a lot of work.  Another idea was to separate the two platforms, easy enough, but it might look odd.  Then Jim says, in a matter of fact tone, "just turn both of them around so the steps are in the middle" hum, I might not have though of that.  This is the true value of a club, group input of ideas.  Carrying this even further, the kit was Jim's dads, but reassembled by John and critiqued by the rest of us, lol.

two cars could not be loaded at the same time

now the loading areas are further apart

Simmer's Block

A friend of our group, Bill Simmers put together a few buildings that Don had gave him.  Bill did a great job of painting this group of buildings for the city of Wellington.

great paint job

Tuesday Night at the Huff and Puff

Ricky's wife sent in some homemade cookies, a wonderful start to our Tuesday night, thanks.  Five of our regulars were missing but the rest pushed onward.  Some basic scenery was added, including rock painting, ballasting, river painting, and hard shell plastering.  The two bridges were put back in place over the McDonald River, completing the mainline.

COOKIES

painting the rock, base and road

trusty ballaster hard at work

cardboard web applied to scene

bridges replaced and river painted