Safe harbour.

More progress. The harbour is coming along nicely - I have built some free buildings to give me scale and made a few boats so that I know things will look right. The track has had to change from the plan but is looks as if it might work!

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Terraforming.

So now I have to create the landscape starting with the area around the beach and harbour. 

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More work.

Today the last of the boards went down including a lift out panel so that I can reach all areas. Next comes building the terrain. 

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Work on the layout.

Lots of work has been done on the layout. Working out levels so that the river will flow downhill. The harbour will meet with the high tide level and that there is enough depth for the canal is great fun

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Idle hands.

There has been a lot of Quakerly work lately but the odd moment has been spent in the shed. Getting the layout ready for all the DCC control systems has meant turning it on its side so that I can wire up point motors etc. All the wood is also in the garage ready for the next building phase  

On side.

Timber.

I have also made up a little flood light to indicate when the power is on to the tracks  

Let there be a light.

   

The future is digital

Today has been a tecky day setting up the DCC (digital command control) system. It functions on the iPad and with a hand controller. 

Control panel

Control panel

 

In the shed.

Today's task was moving the the shelves and drawers to the other end of the shed and moving the layout. This also meant that I could paint the wall behind the layout so that there was better background- not breeze blocks but blue skies. 

Layout

Blue skies

 

Back to work......

After the Christmas break and the New Year rest it is time to go back to winter jobs? Which means the model railway. As I now want to built the next sections of the DCC layout I need to remove the old DC layout. I am planning on making a smaller table for young people to use with the Brio set and a battery operated layout. So the old one is gone...

Gone.