Good Morning All. Let's see, 44° and partly cloudy outside here this morning. After today. unsettled weather coming up for the next five days, some chance of rain, cooler temperatures, first freeze on Halloween, which is about three weeks early, highs below 60° until next Sunday. I'll need to dig out the blue jeans early this fall. I did a little work in the garden yesterday preparing for next spring. I removed most of the tomato cages and started composting debris and residues.
Grits and sausage sounds good this morning Flo. Keeps Mel on his toes.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding the progress pictures yesterday;
Jerome, Chet, Phil, Mikey, Curt, Lee, Sherrel, Ken, Justin, Chad, Rick.
Since yesterday was Sunday, time in the train shed was limited. I did do some minor touch up to the weathering on the barn and posed it tentatively with a tree.
Some minor trimming is still needed on that tree, and of course, much more landscaping on the ground.
As you can see from those pictures, I also painted the crude horizon on the backdrop. I also finished fastening down the industrial trackage over on that side of the main and painted it.
However I forgot to add the missing ties between the scrap pieces of flex that I used before I painted. Oh well. I'll have a few indoor days coming up to take care of that.
Mikey - The roof is made from a product that I got at Hobby Lobby from K&S Precision Metals. I used product # 16132 which is actually for O scale, they make one for HO as well. I know that it is available online from Hobbylinc, and probably many others.
No "old find" is slated for here, as the barn is not isolated enough for something like that to sit unnoticed for that long.
Sherrel - Roof has sags and dents, and of course those two missing sheets. I thought about a "swayback" look and I still might go with it, but I think that it would go unnoticed on the layout. Note the sag on the right side of the second picture, it just doesn't photograph well.
Ken -
Willie - your derelict barn is fantastic, all you need now is lots of surrounding grass, shrubbery and other overgrowth! I'd love to [someday] have something similar on my own pike, but as for now, I'm a bit short of space.
Coming up! It's still a work in progress.
Greg - Good to read that the recovery is going well.
Everybody have a great day.