Slowly, the elements for the 4mm East coast light railway layout are coming together. It is possible construction might even overtake the N gauge projects - if I can fight my way through to where I put the baseboard.
The last package I needed was delivered from ScaleModelScenery with their normal excellent service, in contrast to one company I won't name that recently took months to fulfil an order with zero communication, despite having taken my money when I placed the order.
The one piece of the puzzle I do need to find is my box of Kadees, especially the uncoupling magnets and the height gauge. They are in the attic s, somewhere.
I could do with a nice day to get some spray painting done, both to kickstart work on the next batch of 7/8ths wagons and to get these excellent W&U buildings, from Inoxion, primed.
Cutting away the supports was rather tedious as some were hard to get at. And what do you do with those supports? It seems dreadfully wasteful to just bin them.
You might be able to see that the gutters on the a couple of the corners have been damaged. I'm hoping I can replace them with Modelu corner gutters.
Meanwhile, as I've been typing this, the tree surgeons have been removing the second silver birch from the garden. Whilst the first had to go because it was too big to be safe anymore, this one had to go because it had been smothered to death by honeysuckle. I hate having trees taken out, so at some point we will replace them with something more suitable for a small garden.
Unfortunately, it brings home how neglected parts of the garden had been before we moved in, and how much work we have to do. The trees, and the bamboo that had spread along that fence, really dominated the whole garden, and distorted a lot of the shrubs that should have given it structure. The plan is to see how the garden responds to things being opened up before planning new planting, which hopefully, will integrate with the railways, whatever form they finally take.
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