Painting

Great progress lately with the 'Barn, and beautiful Queensland Winter weather to enjoy generally.  I divided the barn up into three sections for the painting and the first is now effectively finished.  I still need to paint the wallboard that goes up to chair-rail height, but that can wait till later.

I'm really pleased with how it looks, of course!  Really, the painting hasn't been as hard as expected, it just takes time, particularly the ceiling.

Here's another view of the area that has been painted, but it's a bit hard to get a sense of the scale of it.  I plan to build 'temporary' layouts within this area, perhaps changed every year or so, and the space available is 25' 11" x 11', which is really good!  The first layout here will be recently produced British O gauge three-rail, which will be very fun indeed!

I had several friends who are involved in the old car hobby visit the other day, which was very enjoyable.  While there's not much to see here at the moment, we all had a great time sitting around the pot-belly stove, whose warmth was very welcome, chatting about this and that, but particularly how enjoyable and satisfying it is having hobbies.  I couldn't agree more!!

A couple more signs have also made it onto the beam in the entry area.  Still plenty of space for more though!

All in all everything is going very well indeed!