Life seems so busy these days it's hard to find time for fuddling around playing trains, but nonetheless, here we can see that the backdrop is up and setting.
In a comment to my previous post, Michael A suggested toothpicks for holding foam in place while it sets. (FredDagg voice) "That's not a bad idea..."
As I'm using fairly thick foam (about 7cm thick for the base and 3cm for the backdrop), I used BBQ skewers instead, some cut in half and sharpened with the knife. Excellent suggestion. I have a few of these in the train room and normally employ them for stirring and extracting model paint from tinlets, potlets and botlets.
You may note that I have also installed a coved corner in the corner (well where else really) using some .020 styrene sheet. This time its in 'landscape' orientation to give a larger radius to the curve. Its held in place using magic and 4 pins while it sets. Well little bits of fine brass wire as I couldn't find any pins. Or magic.
So things are coming along, and hopefully I'll have some paint lashed on it before my next post.
[postscript: you can't load pictures into the blog from your iphone so don't bother getting one]
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Gorgeous 2: Dropping back
DB calls in: Well this is my first posting live from the trainroom via my phone (just so MotDand can maintain it's position as the most cutting edge NZ120 blog in the known universe)
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I WANT PINK FOAM DAMMIT
Did the TranzAlpine last week after convention and had this bad urge to take photos of Moana as we passed through. Nice and sunny that day on the westcoast as well.
On the strength of DB's recomendations, I have decided to not buy an iPhone...Not being able to upload photos direct to MD? What on earth was Steve Jobs thinking?
Not that there's anything wring with pink foam....
A mate of mine has an ipad (well actually thay have his and hers) so i'll have to have a go...
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