Wife's back from her 2-way endoscopy.  No surprises!  Bottom half was clear, top have showed some damage from acid reflux, but that's what we expected.  

After bringing her home, I'm back in the train room, cutting the vinyl cobblestone sheets.  In a couple minutes, I'll go spray paint/prime them (light grey and beige/tan)

dave

A grey day in SE NH.  Some rain possible tonight through tomorrow morning.  But fortunately, not hot.  High predicted to be 75. 

I have an optathmalogist (spelling?) appointment this afternoon, so I'll actually be glad for no bright sun...

dave

I put the buildings back in front of the backdrops:








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The plan when we retired was to do 2 trips/year overseas.  But since wife has physical problems (knees and back), not sure that plan will work.  Of course, when we get home, it's a couple of days to recover :-)

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I finished the photo building flats.  A view of part of the section, and a view of the whole 9 yards  (actually more like 3 yards...)




I cut the buildings from Scenicking backdrops, and then laminate (transfer tape) to mat board.  I trim the mat board, then color the edges with red or dark grey artist markers.  Then I used double-sided carpet tape to attach to the photo backdrop.  (I'm actually scanning the Scenicking items, doing some color adjustments, and in a couple cases, cloning, then printing to matte photo paper.  I can also slightly scale/change the size of the individual buildings to fit.)

Tomorrow I'll put the structures back and take more photos.  I do have one structure to build, and also to finish sidewalks and roads.

dave

Are you a "Junior Senior?"  You're still more Senior than I am.  

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The 'side entrance building' idea is another winner.

dave

Yesterday's weather was great, today's will be nice but a bit warmer.  I got some more work on the photo buildings, but I still have a hole to fill there.  So it's back to the computer to select and if necessary resize some scans to fill that gap.  The neighborhood Scotch club was in session last night, I stopped by a couple of times to chat when taking the dogs out, etc.  Today wife is making blueberry waffles.


dave

Looks great!  I particularly like the Atlantis Insurance sign.  (I'm sure John Ott would approve, too!)

dave

Greetings from SE NH, where the weather is perfect.  It got down to 58 last night, due to get up to 85 today, with lower humidity than we had this time last week.  

I tried a different pattern on mounting the photo buildings to the mat board.  As soon as I glued the photos and rolled them to set the image, I flipped the mat board over, misted that, and then put the weights on it.  We'll see if that gets a better result than my previous approach.  There's a couple more runs of photos I need to mount, then I should take the full set out and spray seal them (Golden Acrylic Archival Varnish) before mounting them.

Last night when taking the dogs out, I saw an albino skunk.  Of course I rushed to take the dogs back in before they discovered that, so no photos.

dave

Congrats to Matt!!

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I bet Bob is VERY HAPPY to be retired from Corporate IT today, since it's "Worldwide corporate BSOD day" on Windows computers....

After a trip to the store, more work on the buildings I cut from the backdrop.  That's coming along well, although it's a 4 day process to get them flattened out once they're mounted on the mat board.

dave

I think decaling beakers and bottles would induce PTSD.  It would certainly produce lots of Language.   

dave

Ah, I missed the last post!  Those supports make me feel much better! 

Another thing to consider: Add a pair of steel (Evergreen/Plastruct) I-Beams parallel to the wood joists, one near each end  That way, at least you're not depending on relatively weak wood joists to hold up the entire bump-out.

dave

Consider adding some diagonal braces underneath your excellent bump-out.  What I'd do is a wood beam that runs along the edge underneath the windows and below the joists, and then diagonal braces to support that against the walls.  Thinking as if I were a structural engineer, seems that supporting the overhang without this brace would create quite a load on the brick wall opening where the brick wall windows were.

The one complaint I have about Randy's kits is they are too "pre-aged".  Since I model 1890s, I'm looking for buildings that are relatively new.  Randy says "Well, my interest is in decrepit structures."  

dave