Coping?

Much as there is a lot going on at WMD HQ and in my life I do tend to cope with these although Mrs. Woody may have a different view especially having travelled to the Bingham Model Railway Show only to find I was a month too early! 

Enough of that for now and in this instance, the coping I am talking about are the coping stones that I am adding to my tunnel scenic sub-base as this long drawn out project slowly steams into the port of completion!

I needed to build up a the top of the piers so that they straddled the wall along the top of the tunnels. Fabricated from card these were quick to put together.

These were then covered in brick paper.

The brick paper was then trimmed after the glue set and the pieces glued to the rear of the existing piers.

With theses now in place I could add the coping stones which are just strips of card cut from the backing sheet of a pad of paper (never throw useful stuff out!) and marked up in pencil. I taped the strip of card to the side of one ruler and that enabled me to read of the measurements and draw the lines at the required separation using another ruler and pencil.

Still more to do but these two pictures give an idea of how these additions make the plain brickwork look a a bit more interesting and whilst these details are a time consuming activity, it is something that I can cope with!