Industry Lane

Thanks Chris and Toto,

I have been accepted to the March, Forestville Exhibition (North Sh ore Railway Modellers Assoc.) and have also been asked to exhibit at the Liverpool Exhibition (Sydney Model Railway Exhibition) in October ! Better take the dust covers off Linden Ford for the March exhibition and pull my finger out on Industry Lane...

Cheers, Gary.

 

ed wrote:

Unfortunately Sydney only has a couple of exhibitions throughout the year. I have taken Linden Ford to the two major exhibitions in June and October last year and one in late 2014 (November, Linden Fords' first outing). This coming exhibition is pretty much the first one that kicks off the year and unless it gets invites to other exhibitions, well, I just don't know yet. Exhibition managers don't like to see the same layout at their exhibitions year in, year out, although every second year is ok...

So, will Linden Ford be out again this year ? You're guess is as good as mine.

Cheers, Gary.

 

The Claremont show wouldn't happen to be on the June Long Weekend, would it Kim ?? If so, I would have to decline the invitation as I'll be at the Epping MRC Exhibition with Industry Lane...

Cheers, Gary.

 

Wow, I can't believe that the last time I did anything on Industry Lane was in late January..!

I need to do something as the June date is nearing faster than ever. So, a fence was produced. No, not a manufactured kit, but a scratch built post and wire fence. I like the fence I made for Linden Ford, so this was copied, but using styrene for posts instead of wood (North Eastern Lumber) and a thinner gauge copper wire.

Using 1.5mm x 2mm Evergreen Styrene strip for posts, this was cut to length, drilled, shaped, painted and strung with wire prior to placement on the layout. Below is the fence in place before the wire had been painted and both the posts and wire being weathered.



Next is the fence completed, including the weathering of posts and wire, and also the addition of 'greenery' under the fence line. Why so green under the fence line ?? Well, that is because this is where the local birds do their finest 'spreading of seed', covered in a manure coating...



A little more weed was added around the bridge area, as this is where any run-off would flow, keeping the ground reasonably moist for rampant weed growth. This pic was taken before I had vacuumed up the excess static grass along the road.



Not only did below the fence line cop some weed, the wire gained some vines...



More to come. I'll post up a tutorial on the making this fence shortly. It's good to get back into it again, as my creative juices where starting to dry up !

Cheers, Gary.