2021_11_26 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

 2021-11-26  Merry Christmas :D

Seasons Greetings!  Things are slower on the blog than I would have liked. But Covid is still slowing us down. Al has een out of action for a few weeks looking after a sick wife. And the season has its effects as well.

Was very quiet here as family took the opportunity to take advantage of the "freedoms" the Andrews gov, has graciously granted its slaves. I cannot believe my Labor Party has actually dressed in red and joined the Chinese CCP empire. But enough of that. At least he has left our models alone for now.

Biggest work here is point motors and wiring. We keep taking the way ahead with many success's. But one fix shows us another problem. Good news is that we think we can see the light at...eh?

As usual pictures can tell the story!

Ok here Graeme prepares the apple orchard. Ah ok we thought we had plenty of trees!  70 is about half our needs.  First the spacing was marked with pins. Next blended bark (Vitamised) was sprinkled uner the tree canopy.  Next job will be to "plant" the grass, build the fences and then place the trees. Mark out the wheel ruts etc and it should look ok.

Bugger!! not enough trees.

Touching up the tunnels. 

Finishing off the backdrops (East wall)

Decided the backdrops should be made higher and really wanted to hide the bricks.

And Graeme found some very rare thin masonite. He bent it into shape, and hopefully liquid nails will hold it to the bricks.

We have pre-cut the masonite and will fill in between the covered brick piers.

Last week we finally worked out how to fill in the windows. (How much money would I have saved!)

 

We created frames that can sit on top of the original backdrop. Masonite sheets will cover both the old backdrop and the new frame. I will add two additional uprights when we work out the distance between the brick pier covers after they are fixed to the bricks and extended onto the frame.

And thats about all their is.  Except to thank all of those who are watching and to wish everybody a MERRY CHRISTMAS    and a HAPPY AND SAFE NEW YEAR.

Cheers 

Rod