A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
Friday, November 15, 2013
The best garden shed in the world?
Sorting old photos, I dug out this rather poor shot taken in a back garden that had been turned into an amateur railway museum.
As you can see, it's a ground level signal box in GWR colours, not unlike the one I built last week. Better still, I'm taking the shot from another signal box, hence the reflection in the glass. As I recall, we spent a pleasant evening in there playing with the levers - which are all attached to shortened signals (As an aside, you don't need planning permission to erect a 1/3rd tall signal but you do for a full height one).
Our box was lit by gas and the sound of the bubbling flame on a quiet evening watching the sun setting was fabulous.
It's a pity the canes for the runner beans got in the way of the photo but you can't have everything. It would make a nice model though.
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