Lofty's Square Foot - Bufferstop Challenge

[Phred]

Very realistic indeed - I'd have believed that was real stone!

[Lofty]

Cheers Phred,

The plan is to have a fence just in front of the back board. The right side is level so quite an easy task to install a rusty corrugated iron one. On the left however the banking is on a slope, so I am going to go with a six foot wooden fence made with drink stirrers kindly donated by the motorway services that I stopped at last night:


Step1, Chop them into 24mm x 2mm strips:

A bit of scrap 2mm ply will make an excellent backing to glue the planks to:

The planks don't look vertical on the left in the picture, but it's just the way the angle distorts the picture. Just need some paint now to age it.

[Lofty]

Something else that I am trialing with this project is only glueing down the essentials, therefore the fence is removable and will be free standing.

The bare wood needs a bit of paint, it's not intended to be a pristine garden fence. I find that loads of water and very little paint works best, it's more like a stain than a coat of paint.

I probably need a bit more light in this picture, but you should get the general idea:

[Lofty]

I though that it was about time that I put a length of track down, things are also starting to turn green:

[Phred]

Starting to turn green? My wife would have sent me out with the lawnmower before it got to that stage!

[Lofty]

Wet glue all over the place, but things are certainly sprouting.

Once the ballast has dried out I need to get some rust onto the rails.

[Lofty]

The main donkey work is now complete, and it's just a case of titivating and adding small bits.

It's been fun and enjoyable, so much so that I might knock up another little unit with a completely different theme.

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[Dad-1]

That has come along a treat !!
I have too may home jobs with deadlines at the mo.
but I do find small scenes fun to make, a second one ??

Geoff T.

[Phred]

Brilliant! It's really worth clicking on the photo to appreciate the fine detail.

[Lofty]

Thanks guys.

The proof as they say is in the pudding, the concept for this little project was to produce a small photo plinth and I guess that the aim has been achieved:

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[Dad-1]

Works fine in that purpose
As always impressive in your speed of construction.

Geoff T.

[aleopardstail]

does look amazing, zero further progress on mind and yours is already better than I'm going to be able to manage

wow

[Lofty]

14 Days to go.

Time running short

I have just dragged mine of the shelf to see if there is any titivating required.

Whilst it's sitting on the bench I thought it would be a good time to take a snap of my first acquisition of the year:

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[Dad-1]

That's quite unusual.
An Engineers van from Immingham, I'm wondering what direction
this is pointing?
Could be interesting.

Geoff T.

[Lofty]

Closing Day:

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