There was no getting away from it. We had to take a look at the layout sometime and assess the damage. Dropping the board face down made a pretty horrible noise. Fortunately the backscene stopped most of the damage – all the work to make it good and strong paid off in that fraction of a second !
In the end the new wasn’t too bad. Most of the beech huts had come off but apart from some very minor damage, which didn’t look too far off prototypical wear and tear, they could be glued back on. I used an all purpose glue instead of PVA this time as I hope the slight rubberiness will help should this ever happen again. The BRM article was a good guide to the order I placed the huts in before as it had a nice shot of the beech scene. I know it doesn’t matter but I wanted to restore things the way they were before my clumsiness.
The engine shed and water tower roofs had popped off whole and could be glued back the same way. A little fettling of the filler pipe on the tower was needed but the damage has been hidden.
The biggest casualty though was the white clapperboard building. This too the full force of the fall on the front corner of the roof. Despite being card the building survived quite well, except it has squashed in a most unrealistic way. Not a lot but enough that the end wall and chunk of roof will need to be replaced at the very least.
It could all have been so much worse. For now I’ve made the quick repairs and boxed the model up again. Once the model engineer show is out of the way we’ll have another look and put things properly right.
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