Tree repairs? Before you wonder if I have become some form of arboriculturalist this was a model tree that was repaired! I bought these Woodland Scenic Silver Birch trees some time ago. They were second hand and I paid £20 for the four of them which is well under half the new price. Always worth having a look in the boxes under traders stalls at exhibitions where these less glamourous items are usually kept. The only problem was that one of the trees had a brken stub at the end of the trunk that pushes into the tree base.
I could have just glued it back in place but I suspected that given the size of the tree it would most likely fail. Therefore, out came some trusty brass wire and my pin vice drill and holes were drilled in both the tree trunk and the stub. The brass wire was then glued into the trunk with some super glue and the stub threaded onto the protruding wire and glued to that and the tree trunk.
Once dry, the excess wire was cut off.
With the tree repaired it was time to place it and its fellow trees on one of the scenic sub-bases. I had temporarily placed these on the base some weeks ago giving me a chance to look and think about their positioning. I was happy with what I had been seeing so it was time to fix the bases down.
I mixed up some filler and used this to bed in the bases.
With that out of the way it was time to resolve the other end of the sub-base where there is supposed to be a tarmac area serving the sidings and goods shed. It was just a white piece of card and to get the required level I needed to add a second layer. I cut this to size, tested it for fit and then gave it a coat of grey primer from a rattle can.
And this is how the goods shed will look - eventually! Still more to do but hopefully some more progress over the coming days.
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