Winter thoughts.

A day where today's duties were focused on cleaning up the greenhouse in preparation for Winter as per Mrs Woody's list of such like jobs that I almost forgot about as outlined in my post here. It is amazing how much accumulates and it was a chance for a bit of a clear out as well amd with some nice weather it was a pleasant way to spend the day.

The oncoming of Winter is something I have mixed feelings about. The Summer means warmth (well usually) and light evenings when you can enjoy the outside. All that goes with Winter but the upside is that time for model making increases! Well in theory unless Mrs W finds a list of inside jobs which she will no doubt already have in preparation! However I will hopefully make some additional progress on my various model making projects.

At the moment the 009 narrow gauge layout is the focus and having butchered the Wills kit into something that it wasn't designed for, it was time to start the job of painting. The stone retaining walls have been given a coat of various stone coloured Vallejo paints mixed together randomly and hopefully looking something similar to what such a wall should look like in real life.  The hand rails were given a coat of the same manufacturers cream coloured paint which always looks more realistic than the starkness of pure white. All this has to dry and then a wash of my favorite diluted black paint needs to be applied to highlight the stones and their mortar courses. The bridge deck is still in the making and will perhaps not be the usual type of deck that you may expect but more on that in another post. In the meantime I am awaiting the arrival of Mrs W's list of Winter jobs which is likely to include painting jobs but not of my models!