Been doing some final pre show tweaks before Brettell Road heads off to York in a little over a week.

After the last show (nearly a year ago now) there was a little bit of damage picked up.  Nothing too major and the kind of job that I intend to get around to at some point but then don’t.  Case in point this but of fence which got squished.  While working on this area I took the opportunity to add some rudimentary steps to the signal box.  Something I meant to do at the start but didn’t. I had put the gate in but the poor signaller would break his leg falling off the edge of the platform!  There was also a platform light that got bent and thats been repaired and replanted.

Something else that got bashed but didn’t actually break is the chimney on the platform shelter. This has very little clearance to the other board when packed up so rather than wait for it to get smushed I decided to make it removable.  A few magnets popped into holes and a bit of steel on the roof and hopefully thats a problem averted.   I also decided that the roof was a bit too vanilla for a building due to be closed in a week so I’ve had a look at this area too. You may remember i talked about distress paint before when I was building the signal box and I’ve used it again here.  For some reason it didn’t really crinkle up this time so a wash of Tamiya extra thin cement was painted on to add some more wear and tear.  The mossy deposits are AK Interactive dark and light slime with some of their moss deposits.

Next is track cleaning and hoovering before packing the boards away, then the joy that is cleaning wheels!

In an uncharacteristic fit of tidiness I’ve made a proper box for the road vehicles, removable chimneys and coupling poles. When I say ‘made’ I mean got a box off ebay for around a tenner and stuck some foam in it!

The saddle mounted tank I featured last time is done and tested. Finally Railcar W14 waits for the road.  The cats are undisturbed by its presence.

Info on the York show.  Please say hi if you are going.