Mondays' madness

Today I fixed the split in the island as best as I could using fine filler and sanding blocks. Once this was primed and painted, I was pretty happy with the result although the paint gets right in the groves running round the top band of styrene and takes away some of the detail.

As the workshop currently has no fast cast resin available, we have tried filling the molds with car body filler. Even though we primed these with releasing agent first, the filler was very reluctant to be released from the mold and was cracked accidentally. I feel the filler is too brittle for this job, although once released and backed with the other half of the mold produces a nice finish. To compromise, we are trialing the filler again but leaving out the little rivets that would meet the island. Once this is set we can try easing it from the mold with strips of card more gently.

Meanwhile the pylon, triangular piece and circle were glued together. A bolt was drilled into the bottom of this ready to fit into the island and baseboard. The support was then glued to the walkway. Paul has also been redrawing the walkway on Rhino to make it wider. We were initially adding another plain strip along the bottom of the walkway as in one of the computer images but we found the completed design does not feature this.