A weeks worth of work (3)

Here we are, week three and I kinda think I'm where I want to be. Though the project is being built to a deadline. It's quite a distant deadline. 

This time I find myself in the position of having a relatively decent amount of time, so at times my attention wanders. This was an attention wandering week.
The way the whole fits together is the baseboard has to go in before the sides, before I can put the back scene in place. If that makes sense. So I had to be totally sure that I had everything done that I wanted to do, because once the baseboard was fitted in place there was no going back.
The weather meant that I had to wait until later in the week before the rain stopped so I could spray the track. So that have me a chance to work on the mine head gantry. Another jig and that went together quite adequately.

Mine head gantry. it looks like a lot of work but wasn't too bad.

Once the weather was nice enough to spray paint outside, and the paint was dry. The baseboard could be fit in place and everything assembled.

It's all put together!

For quite some time I'd been concerned that the loading bins would need a making a bit thinner as the clearances between the track and legs was minimal. So because the whole structure was very strong, I cut the rear legs off to give me an extra 1/4" clearance. If I'd thought about it. I could have laid the track a 1/4" further away in the first place...

A quick bit of surgery

I said my attention wanders and one such wandering was deciding to make the window frames on the winch gear building myself. They're not perfect but as you can see from this view they're quite adequate. Plus once they are painted black they'll be less noticeable.

You won't be able to get much closer than this to view the layout so the window frames will be fine.

This view should give an idea how the finished cabinet will look.

There we are then, three weeks in. Everything seems to be going to plan. I’m not going to make any plans about what I’m going to work on in the next week, it might be the storage cassettes it might be scenery.