Spot the difference

Another month is drawing to a close and it has been a very successful one!  The wallboard is now finished in the main area of the Trainbarn, so that 'just' leaves the painting and installation of the skirting and chair-rail.  I trialled the colours that I had chosen on the now-finished wall and immediately realised that the dark colour that I had chosen for the wallboard was way too bold and, well, dark.  Good to discover that now!  So I'm going to try a colour which will be very similar to what the wallboards are painted now.

Also the ceiling of the entry area is finished, though awaiting painting.

Another shot of the now-completed main area.

So, all in all great progress! It is so exciting to see it all 'coming together'!  Not too long now before I can start 'playing trains'!!

Trains 'n Trams

I celebrated a significant birthday on the weekend and was very pleased indeed to receive a superb Darstaed O gauge Engine Shed as a gift.  These are based on the pre-war Hornby sheds, but with some improvements.  They are also modular, so that they can be extended length-wise, as long as you need.

This shed will eventually go on my British O gauge layout in the Trainbarn.  This layout will primarily be using recently produced 'coarse' scale equipment produced by companies such as Darstaed, ACE London, WJVintage and ETS.  Just possibly if all this fantastic gear was around a few years ago I might have been tempted to stick with British trains, forgoing some of the US trains, but it wasn't.

This layout, like all my layouts, will be heaps of fun to build!

Also on the weekend, as part of the celebrations, we visited the Brisbane Tramway Museum, and had a really nice picnic in the very well maintained grounds.  And of course some tram rides, on their short track.  Lots of fun!