IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
Evenin' Shop Dwellers, it's 50*F, cloudy and calm in my corner of central MD.
Thank you everybody for the "likes" and comments on my Thanksgiving Day post. My daughter and SIL finally got back from the hospital with their new young'n at ~9:15pm, so MHO and I and two of our other visiting kids went over to admire him. Daughter and SIL had been quarantineening to prevent SIL from catching the C-bug, which in turn would have barred him from being allowed in the hospital for the birth, so this was our first time visiting them in-person in ~6 weeks. Brought them leftovers from the Thxgvg meal, and stayed for ~1 hour. Baby was quiet most of the time except when papa had to change his diaper, then hoo-boy did he EVER scream!
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Back to our regular programming... I took a day of vacation time on Wednesday so I could make further progress on the Dairy Queen. First I filled-in the mortar lines on the brickwork; after that, I put the finishing touches on the scratchbuilt marquee. Here is what the pieces all looked like by lunchtime:
Adding the marquee to the front of the roof made it necessary for me to do some re-engineering of the banner sign mounting, to raise it ~1/4 inch higher for clearance. Luckily I happened to have exactly the right size of K&S brass tubing to fit in the existing holes on the roof:
...problem solved! I applied all the window decals today, but didn't have time to get any in-progress photos. Maybe tomorrow[?]
Thank you everybody for the "likes" and comments on my Thanksgiving Day post. My daughter and SIL finally got back from the hospital with their new young'n at ~9:15pm, so MHO and I and two of our other visiting kids went over to admire him. Daughter and SIL had been quarantineening to prevent SIL from catching the C-bug, which in turn would have barred him from being allowed in the hospital for the birth, so this was our first time visiting them in-person in ~6 weeks. Brought them leftovers from the Thxgvg meal, and stayed for ~1 hour. Baby was quiet most of the time except when papa had to change his diaper, then hoo-boy did he EVER scream!
Maybe so...but what about tracklaying by candlelight?I found it's kind of tough to operate electric trains without, you know, electricity...
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Back to our regular programming... I took a day of vacation time on Wednesday so I could make further progress on the Dairy Queen. First I filled-in the mortar lines on the brickwork; after that, I put the finishing touches on the scratchbuilt marquee. Here is what the pieces all looked like by lunchtime:
Adding the marquee to the front of the roof made it necessary for me to do some re-engineering of the banner sign mounting, to raise it ~1/4 inch higher for clearance. Luckily I happened to have exactly the right size of K&S brass tubing to fit in the existing holes on the roof:
...problem solved! I applied all the window decals today, but didn't have time to get any in-progress photos. Maybe tomorrow[?]