Sunday, October 7, 2018

Back from vacation and back to work

     Norm and his wife Betsy and my wife Ellen and myself went on a three week vacation to the New England states and into Canada.  We toured the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY and visited the King Arthur Flour company (and store) outside Burlington, VT.  Both Norm and I like to bake so we enjoyed walking around and buying a lot at the company store!  From there we went up into Canada and visited Montreal, Quebec City, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.  The highlight, in my opinion, was seeing low tide at Fundy Bay.  They have a daily 50 foot tide swing each day and we were able to walk on the ocean floor during low tide.  After Canada we drove along the coast of Maine and visited some lighthouses and finally stopped in Lancaster, PA on our way home.  It was a long trip but everyone had a good time and a favorite place to see.

     Now that we are back it is time to get back to the train layout.  On the trip I started a new FOS Scale Model called 'Tower Gas'.  I stained the walls and did some initial painting.  The final weathering will be done once the walls are all glued together.

     My grandson Aiden is visiting this weekend so he helped paint some of the parts.

Aiden helping to paint a small roof part


He takes this work very seriously!!


I glued the lower level walls together this morning.  I'm using a metal square to make sure all the corners are square.  This was an issue with my last model so I want to make sure everything lines up correctly this time.

The back wall and left side are glued and set in the background.  The front and right side are being glued using the square for alignment.



Here is the current state of the model.  The four lower level walls are glued together and the three walls for the upper level steeple are glued in place.  The fourth wall for the steeple will go on once the roof is in place.



More to come on this build.....