Good Morning All. A nice cool 62° and partly cloudy. Thunderstorm system has moved east and should be hitting
Garry soon. Eventually left 3.75" in the rain gauge; just when I thought it was nearly over yesterday, Mother Nature doubled down and hammered us. Pool is overflowing and I had just gotten the chemicals right, sigh! I'll take a couple of sausage, egg and cheese biscuits this morning Flo.
Grocery/beer trek coming up this morning. Looks like I'll add the wine store, vitamin shop and library to the list. We did schedule my wife's knee replacement surgery for late July, after the vacation and after the doctor's vacation. Looks like there's an approved physical therapy center 12 miles away that she can use for post-op therapy; beats the 50 mile round trip to Denton. The other knee maybe in mid-October, maybe!
Thanks for the ongoing likes and comments regarding the events in the train shed,
Phil, Sherrel, Jerome, Patrick, Curt, Dave, Garry.
So, speaking of the train shed, I spent some time out there after being trapped inside the house (due to excessive rainstorms) after household tasks. I covered a 5" x 6" area with ground foam, and then rubbed my elbow in it and had to do part of it over. No picture! I did some more tinkering with the front wall of the Masonic Lodge. I am deviating from directions a bit. At this stage, I should have already glued all three layers of front wall together, but in reading ahead I noted something that would be less than easy for me. In this picture of the walls, you can see three blue strips of thinner cardstock that have to be applied into the recesses at the top of the wall. I determined that centering them in step nine would not be as easy as putting them in right now before gluing the third wall layer on.
So that's what I did.
Everything is now glued and under weights, hence no picture yet. Step two is now complete. Step one was simply cutting out the base which was set aside for now.
Meanwhile I cut out the two side walls to begin step three. Excuse the peripheral clutter on the workbench, it's all "work in progress".
Note that there are 18 more of those cutouts to do along the tops of them. This kit predates the laser-cut era!
Louis - Great to see your posts yesterday and this morning, and I see that you haven't ignored model railroading.
Greg - Nice job on the ACL boxcar. Might I suggest strengthening the weathering along the rivet lines, perhaps with a light dusting of powders.
Curt - Those brackets and rigging/railing really soured me when building tank car kits. I for one, really welcomed the RTR tankers, even as overpriced as I thought they were.
Dave - More than anything, this Masonic Lodge kit is a learning experience with a new medium. I like what it will eventually look like and I like the challenges associated with learning to work with such thick cardstock. This is not a "shake-the-box" kit by any means. I am in no rush, as it is currently just to keep me busy as I let paint and glue dry on my main scenery project.
Johnny -
Nothing to report from the train room. Can't wait to get some time down there again.
Time to ditch that darn day job!
Terry - Whoa! What a video, looked just like an accordion. Good to know there were no injuries.
Everybody have a great day.