Ponderosa Northern

I've been slogging away at this, but no updates here as it hasn't been worth posting pics of the same room every few days. Here's the progress: The walls are finished and painted (as is the ceiling) Skirting has been fitted around the room to stop the breeze! The floor has been painted with another coat of DPM Plastic sheet DPM has been fitted over that Rubber mats have been fitted over that We've started reinstalling the old units What you can't see too well here is that some of the units that were stored outside, under tarps, somehow got wet and rotted. I'll have to replace those. I think I have some left over from the kitchen renovation in my shed - fingers crossed! The remaining insulation will either be used in my workshop (next project) or for railroad mountains (after being carved).

Since the last post, I've done, and had done lots of work on the garage. After clearing out all the stuff from the last picture, we were able to discover why the room was so damp, one the floor had rising damp issues, and that water was coming in through the up and over door, and working through the wall that was built behind it. Essentially the door had been sealed with  brown parcel tape and the wall behind it had been built of porous cinder blocks! This all meant that I had to rip out all of the flooring, insulation, and boarding as it was all damp and rotting. After that I got the builders in to remove the cinder block wall, and to brick up the metal door (which fell out and took the corner of the garage with it when we tried to open it!). Here we are in the middle of doing that. Once that was done, I still had issues with the damp coming up through the floor. To try and stop that I used Black Jack DPM to tank the walls and floor around the edges. I then used a grey f...

I've wanted to build a proper layout for the last decade or so, but after a few abortive starts, in HO and N, I've finally got space to build a decent setup. I'm going to be constructing a double, possibly triple decked N scale layout that's set in the Pacific Northwest, and hosts my Southern Pacific collection and my fiction Ponderosa Northern stock. I lived in the PNW for 3 years of my life, and I'd like to capture the feel of that region. It also gives me the chance to temporarily move the layout north into Canada to run my BCOL/CP and CN stock when I feel like doing that. So here are some pics to show what we're dealing with, essentially a single car garage. A 3d plan of the room, the door is on the left of the missing wall. a 2D plan The room prior to clearing.