4mm Polsarrett: BR(S) N Cornwall Clay, The Final Countdown

[NHY 581]

Who's house is that cottage ?

 

[Pencarrow]

No modelling for the past few days... Been sidetracked by things IT. No1 son's gaming computer to be precise.

The way of PCs are as foreign to me as train stuff is to my wife but I've managed to install a new motherboard, CPU and water cooled CPU heatsink. The physical installation was 'interesting' but sorting out the software and drivers was an absolute pig.

Apparently the results are ok though...






I think a logical approach and being used to often illogical or sparse instructions in train stuff helped.

 

[NHY 581]

Witchcraft.

 

[Pencarrow]

Witchcraft.

Advanced DCC, slippery slope chap.

 

[NHY 581]

Crikey.

 

[Pencarrow]

Doing a spot of gardening today...

 

[Pencarrow]

First batch of 10 were cleaned up and the large amounts of flash removed from the armatures. Then primed with the usual Halfords primer. Having done those and got them tangled up again I decided to remove all the barbs from the branch ends.

Tree foreground left has the barbs, the remainder are removed.

 

[Pencarrow]

A veritable forest is forming!

 

[Pencarrow]

A winter's scene...

 

[NHY 581]

A winter's scene...

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Passchendaele ?

 

[Pencarrow]

And now with added leaves...

 

[Pencarrow]

The first 6 of 20 are in place, temporarily as I'll remove them when the backscene is fitted.



The armatures all started the same but have been pruned and buried to different degrees to give some variation.




Must put some windows in the hut...

 

[Jelle Jan]

What a difference a tea tree makes, looking great!

Jelle Jan

 

[Pencarrow]

The cottage occupants have started their planting out too...

 

[Pencarrow]

And I'm thinking of having a couple of trees along the lane too...

 

[Heather Kay]

There needs to be a trellis up that bare patch of wall. Not all the way up, but as high as the top of the ground floor windows. Not sure what plant would grow up a trellis, mind. Green growing things are not something I’ve much interest in.

 

[simond]

Legumes!

 

[Pencarrow]

Legumes!

In polite company?!

 

[Pencarrow]

There needs to be a trellis up that bare patch of wall. Not all the way up, but as high as the top of the ground floor windows. Not sure what plant would grow up a trellis, mind. Green growing things are not something I’ve much interest in.

Triffids?

 

[simond]

T’wasn‘t entirely tongue in cheek. My understanding of days of yore is that anyone who had a bit of space would plant something they could eat, and peas & beans climb trellises. I guess the other option would be fruit trees.