coombe junction - moorswater - old clay dries...
Update,
Work on the 37's has stopped briefly as I have now managed to source a small modelshop in barcelona (conveniently part of an architectural modelmakers) which stocks evergreen sheeting...amongst other goodies
This week has seen the model railway room home office rearranged which with some shuffling of the IKEA Lack shelves, has elevated the position of the 4mm layout (in slow progress for my sons) to allow me to store the coombe junction moorswater boards in their correct configuration complete with the removable backscenes attached...in short I can now stand on a chair and see the layout in its entirety without having to set it out balanced on the dining room table.
Here's a view looking from said chair...it's lodged between my sons 4mm layout above and our architectural models below...please don't zoom in on my shocking wiring...
Back to the dries. The first job was to complete the base roof cladding before I started the roof vent details. Once I laid the final pieces and drew out the positions of the vents and rooflights, I then considered cutting a hole where the rooflights were. I had not intended to do much on the interiors as much will be hidden from view, but I thought it might be interesting as there may be some nice shadows cast through the (grubby stained) windows to below. By chance the postions of the rooflights did not interfere with my intermediate supporting walls, so I started to cut out the windows insitu, through the plastic sheeting and the card beneath. I thought it was going to go horribly wrong...but surprising, armed with a brand new 10A blade, the swear box rermained free of contributions during this process.
The openings cut insitu into the roof...
I then started to construct the first level of the vent which is raised above the roofline and (I am guessing) provides a bit of cross flow ventilation to the clay dries stores. Once again I used the evergreen plastic sheeting but this has been spaced off the roof by small individual plastic struts cut from some spare plasticard to represent the timber structure.
The rafters were cut, marked out on the rear of the sheet and then attached with MEK PAK.
This was tackled in 2 pieces due to the length of the evergreen sheeting but I am hoping that final painting and weathering will help disguise some joints. This was attached to the roof using MEK PAK and the next job will be the high level vent running along the ridge of the roof and the rooflights.
Overall plan shot with vent in place...
Seen from the end which will be most viewed on the layout...
Seen from then end which will be tight against the backscenes...
Hoping to get another shot of modelling in perhaps at the weekend to try and finish the main parts of the roof.
As usual, any comments welcome, Pete
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