tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27561207765305111892024-03-13T00:16:11.068-07:00Brockville, Westport & NorthWestern Railway in HO ScaleA description of the history and building of the model of the B&W. The first train ran in 1888 for BW & Sault St Marie. From 1903 until 1914 it was operated as BW & NW. My model depicts Eastern Ontario from 1906 - 1910.JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-88811774490003163712016-02-06T10:21:00.000-08:002016-02-06T10:21:34.207-08:00A Long Time since an updateWork has been continuing, although slowly, as I've had other projects on the go. In the past year We've added over two hundred trees, about one hundred fifty hand painted animals, as well as several new buildings.<br />
The lack of pics came from having no camera, all that I had having died. As I've always been disappointed with the results of digicams I was reluctant to buy another, but bit the bullet with a Sony.<br />
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This is a Metcalfe cardstock kit in Westport. Under the tarp is an old pair of drivers.<br />
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This is the snow shed and the building that is Soperton. Also visible are some deer.<br />
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Some more animals, this time goats in a pen.<br />
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A longer view with Lyn Falls. The fishermen are Woodland Scenics. A set of six that are dotted around.</div>
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A closer shot of the man and boy.</div>
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More of Lyn Falls.<br />
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Some more fishermen, this time up by Westport. This camp scene has tents and ground sheets of teabag, another WS figure "Bare Hunter" on the hollow log with a couple of deer instead of the bear it came with. <br />
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Here the bridge over the Grand Trunk lines and the beginnings of the trestle.<br />
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JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-13923569093030007182014-11-06T07:40:00.001-08:002014-11-06T07:40:38.732-08:00I have a problem with womenWhy does nobody sound surprised? The main problem is the expense. Again, no one sounds surprised. I hand paint my people, for the most part, and there is very little in the way of women with appropriately long skirts for 1906. Prieser makes some sets that are more expensive than WS, and the best for my purpose only has 2.<br />
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So, on a different project/experiment, I'd painted some previously enjoyed teabags (after I'd used the previously enjoyed tea as ploughed fields) a tarpaulin green.<br />
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The campsite is still needing the tent poles, guy ropes and all the other details.<br />
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I have also been working on a building for Brockville that is just getting the interior details.<br />
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The upstairs I originally envisioned as an office, which put me back to the problem of the short skirts. "Lightbulb". The green tarps! Meet my painted ladies.<br />
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<br />JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-37037274740135617392014-10-06T02:52:00.001-07:002014-10-06T02:52:16.211-07:00Its not junk anymoreI found this in the junk pile<br />
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It came from an old building my buddy Steve found somewhere, which we cannibalized. I had to trim the bottom 3/4" off to get it to this stage.<br />
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I think this will work right well here as either a recent addition as the department grown, or it could be the old stables.<br />
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After cleaning it up I found this roof vent that will fill the hole in the roof. The gaping hole in the front wall I filled with some board & batten styrene, the back I left. The doors came from Tichy Trains door and window sampler pack. I have lots of windows left but very few doors.<br />
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As I mentioned I've got all the way round. The hatch
may end up as a duck under though, as there is only a very small length of rail
between the edge and the turnout. I have a bit of an issue with the right hand
turnouts only in Brockville even though they are the same throughout the
layout.The leading drivers on 66 & 67 strike the frog and jump. 64 & 65
pass through just fine though. So as Foley's mountain is going to seperate
Brockville from Westport I got a peco long radius turnout with an under mount
switch motor.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/forum/picture.php?albumid=6&pictureid=87" /><br /><br />The
long view.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/forum/picture.php?albumid=6&pictureid=92" /><br /><br />I've
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is a house that Steve brought over and it never seemed to fit anywhere, until we
cut it in half and it's the front of King st.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/forum/picture.php?albumid=6&pictureid=89" /><br /><br />This
I scored at work. It was hanging up during operation and so was unreliable. Boss
says throw it out I says Yes Boss. i did have it polished up it's a little
tarnished right now, and I will have to make a mount for it as there is a stub
of pipe protruding from the back.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/forum/picture.php?albumid=6&pictureid=91" /><br /><br />I
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JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-42153637515794862242014-06-27T07:02:00.002-07:002014-06-27T07:02:58.643-07:00Progress of a sort.The bridging section across the door is built. I've put in a hook and eye to hold it vertically in the open position, and now I'm going to remove the light switches and move them to the other side of the wall as they're inconveniently positioned. This will have Foley's Mountain in Westport, behind which will be the last turnout for the wye at Brockville. this is going to have to be a large radius as I don't want any trouble here.<br />
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The corner where Lyn is has been coming along. The business in the back is Lyn Valley Mining Co (a failed business). The track has been torn out leaving only the ties, the abandoned 0-4-0 loco will be heavily weathered, and the gates have yet to be built. Lyn Falls has had the third pour. I recently bought 100 trees from Hong Kong, and my friend found another 60 -70 in a yard sale. They disappeared rapidly. In the third pic you can just make out the wife putting the laundry out on the line behind the house.<br />
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JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-71441009437308770122014-02-01T17:10:00.000-08:002014-02-01T17:10:06.162-08:00A few more pics Progress seems to have slowed down somewhat, but it is still there. The Snoopy shaped spot is where Lyn Falls will be going, the "dog tag" is a rock in mid stream. Where the Tardis is is where I live just through the S bend on the Red Rd.<br />
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I've been doing some ballasting in Brockville<br />
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The DC track is wired now, and I've built a tray for the power pack and odd tools. The trestle is just temporary untill I get the final one built, but for now I can get all the way round.<br />
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Roll call. From left to right 65, 67, 64, and 66<br />
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This is the latest, 64<br />
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This last one is Steve's 4-8-2 mountaineer on the test track.<br />
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<br />JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-55021970421848391932014-01-07T06:51:00.003-08:002014-01-07T06:51:35.524-08:00It's exciting stuffWe've managed to get all the way round from Westport to Brockville, yay.<br />
I also just over the weekend received the last lokie from a very pleasant Ebay seller Boston4eyi. It's another Baldwin like 65 and runs like a top. This one will be numbered 64.<br />
Curiously the first two engines (the richmonds 66 & 67) once round to Brockville derail at the right hand turnouts even though I've checked them six ways from Sunday for level. The problem seems to be that the front pilots have two pivot points and as such do nothing to assist rounding a corner. The drivers are located about halfway down the length and the weight of the tender (and eventually a train) hold it back, so it wants to go straight and the lead drivers strike the frog and pop off. I think I can fix this by removing the rear pivot point.<br />
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Once I've bought my daughter a new SD card for her camera I'll have some more pics and maybe even a movie.<br />
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CheersJohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-42900329145337967942013-12-05T11:05:00.001-08:002013-12-05T11:05:29.726-08:00Odds and EndsWith the Brockville section coming along I thought I'd let you know a bit more about it. This section took three years to build. The original plan was to utilize the Grand Trunk line as there was already a spur line running up to Lyn pit. GTR said no so the building of two trestles, bridge etc. Ironically when the line opened in 1885, as all this work wasn't complete, they began by using this same line. Three years later the line was fully open. I hope it doesn't take me as long as we are hoping to host an open house in Sept.<br />
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I read recently (although the author had service beginning in 1888) that ten years later the Company was in such dire financial straits that passengers were being carried in box cars with a bench running the length of the car. The passenger cars having been sold off. I hope they put a stove in.<br />
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By our era there must have been an infusion of cash as they bought two brand new loco's as well running passenger cars again.<br />
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I've begun working on the Brockville station building and will have some pics soon. Under the bridge, where the GTR lines are, one will be a programming track and the other will be wired for DC as a test track. Then a friend suggested making the whole layout DC capable. So here is a wiring diagram to do that. The wye will need to be isolated to protect the reversing module (and the wye in Westport will need to be retrofit).<br />
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Even though the plan says DPST I will use all DPDT's as I have them plus they will look neater if they are all the same. As well they will give an added layer of off to prevent accidentally switching on.<br />
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I met Railway Bob this summer at the Ottawa Model Rail Expo, and got to thank him for doing a lot of my research for me. I went to a few other shows as well, the largest in Syracuse NY at the NY state fairgrounds and will post some pics from them soon.<br />
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Cheers for now.JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-23956970911467128412013-11-11T08:36:00.003-08:002013-11-11T08:39:51.514-08:00You don't know what you don't knowWe have a student at work putting in his steam time, and I was showing him the blog pics and realised how much is missing.<br />
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Ploughing the field in Westport. The plough and man still need painting. Woodland Scenics kit. I was at a show in Massena NY the other week and I saw one field that was corrugated card with dirt cover. Our earth is previously enjoyed tea bags (the bag itself makes great tarpaulins).<br />
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You have probably noticed there is a dearth of signage. Very white I know, nor is it actually glued on yet as I'm still undecided on whether I like this or no. The flat is left over parts from the Delta mill kit. with some Tichy windows.<br />
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It's hard to see in the pic but Luigi's restaurant has a veggie garden by the kitchen door, picket fence around the Doctors house with his car in the road. In the center pic is Steve's sense of humour. The sign by the hitching rail says 'Parking limit one hour'<br />
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Delta has come along too, with roads and telephone poles.<br />
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Here is the beginning of a snow shed around where Soperton will be with bark rocks.<br />
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And finally, Athens as it stands now.<br />
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<br />JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-71227731491986820502013-11-10T11:58:00.000-08:002013-11-10T11:58:33.152-08:00A New LocoI just received a new lokie, which has been given #65. I need one more to complete the roster. Like the others it's a Spectrum. The big difference from the other two is the shape of the steam dome. This model comes with two different domes, so the first job will be to disassemble it and install the right one. It does run very smoothly, and those finicky front pilots stay on the tracks, Yay.<br />
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Here it is crossing the bridge into Athens by Lake Eloida.<br />
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This is as far as we have power, to the edge of the fill. The bridge is going to be painted and weathered before it gets finally placed.<br />
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This ones a better pic of the fill than the loco. The fill has a foam core and the stone is added in layers to make sure it all glues down. the stone is from the 30kg bag of limestone screenings ($7.00) that I've not even used half of for the ballast. This is what remains after the ballast is sieved out.<br />
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This is the fill in 1951 covered in grass now, these days you could easily miss it for the trees, although the dog knows the way.<br />
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Not much of a post.JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-19462492145519932502013-04-19T16:41:00.000-07:002013-04-19T16:41:08.695-07:00A Bit More DeltaWith Forfar looking a lot better it was time to get round the corner.<br />
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Most of the houses in Delta are brick, so I downloaded some brick sheets from www.paperbrick.co.uk to build some card houses. The card had been a ginger ale carton and needed bracing and for that I cut down some tongue depressors. The holes for the doors and windows were cut out with a sharp #11 blade. The doors and windows are from Tichy Train Group. The house with the yellow windows has a temporary roof from an old piece of Plasticville. The other roof is shingle from Tichy. The clapboard siding on the addition is 3/16 strips of white card and stuck on with double sided carpet tape.<br />
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The grey road is sanded grout and is the same material that we used in Forfar. After it is sprinkled on it is wetted down with wet water. I've found that a few thin layers gives a better finish once it's been painted.<br />
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Well. that's it for now. Next I'll be on the other side of the mill, as the mill is in the center of the village.JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-55271538444731675572013-03-11T04:48:00.000-07:002013-03-11T04:48:00.611-07:00Cheap, Cheap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Here's a money saving tip. All the logs on this flatcar are trimmed off an old Christmas tree. This past Christmas's tree is still buried under the snow losing it's needles, but it will get the same treatment. They can also be used for longer logs. Maybe I'll try to make a log cabin one day.</div>
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<br />JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-80655995817567159922013-03-05T17:35:00.003-08:002013-03-05T17:35:43.178-08:00Forfar Dairies KitbashLately I've been working on Forfar Dairies, which at the time was a mile and a half north of the village. That building was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt in the village.<br />
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I started with a Bachmann lighted freight station. The chimney stack is just a cardboard tube covered with printed brick from paperbrick.co.uk. The boiler room is a part of another free download of a false front store, the porch roof is part of the same store. The roof vents are pen tip protectors from chart recorders (the old Bailey panels). I then added Tichy Trains milk station, which is 48 scale inches above track level. This meant scratchbuilding a lower platform and ramp. The building cupola is actually a mistake from Delta mill. That building came with a separate powerhouse (with internal detail, but no windows to see it), and the cupola had two different gable ends. I accidently used the wrong pitch. It seems to go quite well here though. Being a boiler man by trade I realized that either they were burning natural gas or had a cold furnace, so I made a little sawbuck and saw with all sorts of odd scraps of wood, twigs, previously enjoyed Xmas tree, shavings and off cuts.<br />
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Westport and the extension of the wye. The red warehouse flat in the background is some of the spare parts from the Delta mill. There are only the four spare windows though. Not a problem as Tichy makes windows just that size.</div>
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This N scale church is all thats left of Crosby and Newboro. The rocks are the bark mentioned earlier. I don't think I said but after all my efforts into making these, my buddy just gave a very light spray with the grey primer and got the same result. They look quite good I think.</div>
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Nice little village is Delta. It took its name from the shape of Lower Beverley Lake which is like the Greek letter. First the long view.<br />
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And the mill building, which is interesting in its own right. This is a RDA kit Easton mill. I really didn't like the loading dock that came with it, so made my own. It was quite a build. Forget using a sharp #11 blade to cut from the sprue, a machete worked better. The wall sections had to be sanded down so the edges were a 90 before they could be glued together (the instructions showed a shiplap joint, but they weren't molded that way), It wasn't all bad though. The walls and roof are thick enough that they won't need any liner to prevent light coming through, and the windows were separate pieces to make painting easier. Also it came with spare wall pieces, which are going to get used as a flat in Westport.<br />
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The real mill was the most modern building of its kind in Upper Canada when it was first built in 1812. It was fully automated from day one, and was a two man operation. One Lackey, and one Boss to rake in the Coin. By our era the wheel had been replaced by a pair of turbines and the mill was converted to electrical power. There was sufficient to supply all 12 houses in Delta with a light bulb, but if your wanted to pay double you could have two bulbs. The village of Lyn, by comparison, didn't get electricity until 1927. There is a story that the Owner was walking through the village one evening and saw one house brightly lit and knowing they only paid for one light went to see what was going on. He found they had creatively used strategically positioned mirrors, so he charged them as though they had two lights anyway.</div>
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<br />JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-30044868463426514852012-12-20T04:44:00.000-08:002012-12-20T04:44:04.134-08:00AMR forum closedThe forum started by Paul Templar (Shamus), All Model Railroading, is now closed. It had been dying for a while, but it is sad to see it go. Without all the help and encouragement from a lot of fine modellers there I don't think I would have got to where I am in my own modelling.JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-30531884018092542182012-12-14T12:50:00.001-08:002012-12-14T12:50:19.274-08:00A little dittyThis past summer I was in Westport at the Rideau Lakes Museum and I came across this complaint to the B&W from a farmer, J Knowles, unfortunateky undated. <br />
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My razorback (pig) strolled down your track<br />
A week ago today.<br />
Your 29 came down the line<br />
And snuffed his life away.<br />
You can't blame me<br />
The hog, you see, slipped<br />
Through your cattle gate.<br />
So, kindly pen a cheque for ten<br />
The debt to liquidate.<br />
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Our 29 (train) came down the line<br />
And killed your hog we know.<br />
Bur razorbacks on railroad tracks<br />
Must surely meet with woe.<br />
Therefore, my friend, we cannot send<br />
The cheque for which you pine.<br />
So, plant the dead, place oe'r his head<br />
Here lies a foolish swine.JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-65822588581834161692012-12-09T19:03:00.004-08:002012-12-09T19:03:45.961-08:00It's been a while...It's not much of an update as I have no pic's yet. The hoops. The camera I bought last year quit right as the warranty expired. Bought my daughter a camera for her birthday (she's lost the charger already), her camcorder doesn't talk to the new computer, so I have resurrected the 35mm. Now, you might think that would solve the problem, yes? Well, it will once I can find a scanner at work.<br />
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However, on the railroad work is underway again after taking summer off.. Track is laid to Athens and ballasted, the Delta mill building is built, and Steve and I have reversed direction and have extended the Westport "Y" with the idea of getting operational. I decided that I wasn't happy with the one leg and will be re-laying that soon.<br />
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Pic's soon.<br />
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CheersJohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-9397815672089808262012-05-14T16:13:00.002-07:002012-05-14T16:14:45.520-07:00Bark rocksI saw on ebay someone selling rocks made from bark, so I found some pieces in the woodshed and made my own.<br />
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The two pieces on the left are oak, while the longer piece is maple. I tried ash but found it too flaky. First I brushed the loose dirt off with a toothbrush.<br />
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Next I dry brushed with raw sienna.<br />
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I also put fascia around the peninsula and moved the connection for the controller to the end of the peninsula. Now I'll be able to reach everywhere.<br />
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I've started a small lake just outside of Westport using polyester resin.<br />
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CheersJohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-21524222302691810182012-04-30T11:51:00.002-07:002012-04-30T11:55:10.291-07:00The Coal Dock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here we have differed from the original plan by shortening the peninsula by a foot to give a little more elbow room and added an additional siding for an engine shed. We also moved the divider over a couple of inches away from the Forfar side.</div>JohnMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03174197196965276686noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756120776530511189.post-51946015081240208412012-04-07T19:23:00.000-07:002012-04-07T19:23:04.413-07:00Some pics of the rock cut and fill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This one is taken on top of the rockfill heading north toward the cut. When you think of the amount of labour that went into here, without the aid of modern machinery, it's quite amazing. All this rock came out of the cut.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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It's a good walk for the dog. She knows her way around all the little paths up there. In season there's wild blackberries too!<br />
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