Baseboard:
Baseboard:
Baseboard with foam dry run:
Baseboard with foam dry run: (is it just me who has uploaded images rotated for me?)
Tunnel Portal:
Bench work and track work (coloured caulk is the shizang for laying track & cork):
In the December 1983 Australian Model Railway Magazine, John Burgoyne quoted 'the finest model engineer I have ever met' by saying, "the most complex structure on this earth is no more than a collection of simple parts properly designed, carefully made and properly assembled." These words were also a caption to a shot of a trestle over Barhon's Gorge, and I mention it here as the bents of the trestle are assembled with what will form the trackbed:
Trestle assembly:
More trestle assembly:
Still more trestle assembly:
Yet more trestle assembly:
More and more trestle assembly, it was great to see the bents becoming part of something bigger:
Possibly the last trestle assembly for a while:
And now for the plaster bandages over the foam form work (and no, that's not a typo or double up):
Those tunnel portals with matching retaining walls, painted and in place:
And the tunnel opening on the other side (the newspaper is to protect the track from plaster drippings):
Pegs to hold the bridge siding on to match the curve:
And the whole lot as it was for Christmas 2009:
And a close up of the family on the hill with a little help from a photo editor for the sky:
And as it looked under the tree:
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