A new Video

 Barry Davies HOn3 Hidden Valley RR

     After only four years of construction Barry has decided to dismantle his Hidden Valley and build a new layout based on the RGS.

    So it was necessary to get my gear ready and go video his beautiful Hidden Valley RR before he started to rip into it. With thanks to John as the man in charge of the throttle we got the job done in quick time.

   So here is Barry layout filmed only two weeks ago.

 Thank you once again for stopping by.

Rod.

   

A little bit of weathering

 I have been putting this job off for ages.

     Having five Blackstone steam locomotives four K27s and a recently swapped D&RGW C19 with Barry, some with factory weathering and others without I thought it was time to get my act together and get this job completed.

     During Covid we were restricted to not travel outside a 5 Kilometer radius from our homes so I placed an order with a local hobby shop for a range of new AK Interactive acrylic paints that they had just received. Smoke, Soot and a few others were delivered after about 10 days.

    I had previously copied several prototype loco images to get an idea of how I wanted to weather my lot.

    Here are a few images of my efforts with weathering and new coal loads in the four K27's.

461 also received a dog house.

I chose not to weather 462 as I want the green boiler to be seen.

     The C19 can wait a while as Barry had added a new coal load to it and it looks good as it stands at the moment.

That's it for this post.

Rod.

Lots more done

 Boy how time flies

     Its kinda hard to believe that we are in the second week of March 2021 already. Due to Covid and several long lock-downs here in Victoria we were unable to have any body to our homes and in the last one only 5 visitors at a time and only once per day. This also meant our Friday group could not catch up as we have done for the past 12 years.

     Knowing that we could not get back together and the warm weather would soon be gone I set about trying to get a lot more scenery work completed on the layout as I could before the guys came around.

     These are just a few images of the scenery work with more to add over time.

So this is where it ended in mid February.

Thanks for coming by.