4mm Life in a Northern Town - Ever more York

[Neil]

Woodwork, woodwork and yet more woodwork. I'll eventually get round to model making but I've had other stuff to do first, let me explain.

Here's the home of Northern Town; behind the jungle and pergola lies a flat roof garage. The last couple of times I've been working in it I've heard a mewing from the roof. It looks as though Fred can get up there but can't climb down so I've had to get the step ladders out to fish him off the lean to shed roof at the rear.



Thinking of times when I won't be there to retrieve him I thought I'd best provide an easy route down as he's not the most nimble of cats. Here I've adopted model railway technology to fashion a different sort of cat flap.



There was already one step down in the form of a shelf so all I've done is to add a hinged bit to the lower shelf to give him an intermediate step, which can be folded up for access to the wood store.



Inside the garage the mug holders are now in place; scenery beckons.

 

[Jon Gwinnett]

Anxious of Edinburgh asks if the new mug holders might not be a tad too close to knee night?

 

[Neil]

Dear Anxious of Edinburgh; I'm afraid that only time will tell.

 

[Osgood]

Won’t those mug holders work in the very same way as the cat-flap-shelf by the wood store, thereby allowing Fred a leg-up onto the townscape?

 

[Jordan]

What about biscuits? Where are they supposed to go?

Greedy of the Black Country.

 

[Jon Gwinnett]

Biscuits go in the operators, after dunking in tea. Surely no need to put them down anywhere? Equally greedy of Edinburgh

 

[simond]

Unless evolution has fortuitously equipped you with three hands or a prehensile tail, you’ll need somewhere for the packet, as the other hands are holding the mug and the unbitten half of the biscuit.

 

[cmax]

You are all missing a trick here, wasn't the bogie bolster designed for carrying bourbon's (2) and plates (1) not forgetting trestles or carrying digestives

 

[Jordan]

Biscuits go in the operators, after dunking in tea.

There will need to be provision for a spoon as well, then. Not just to stir the tea, but to fish out the half-biscuit that got over-dunked & fell in.....

 

[Jon Gwinnett]

I hope Neil doesn’t mind the diversion, sadly I don’t have any bolster or plate wagons, so haven’t been able to illustrate the Bourbon method, but it sounds very appealing!

 

[Herb Garden]

I hope Neil doesn’t mind the diversion, sadly I don’t have any bolster or plate wagons, so haven’t been able to illustrate the Bourbon method, but it sounds very appealing!

I'm pretty sure the standard 5plank open merch wagon would fit a pair of custard creams on end?

 

[Nick C]

There will need to be provision for a spoon as well, then. Not just to stir the tea, but to fish out the half-biscuit that got over-dunked & fell in.....

Wouldn't a pipe wagon be about the right size for a teaspoon or two?

 

[Jon Gwinnett]

Not quite biscuits, but…

 

[Neil]

Away from the imperative of providing drinks and snacks I thought I'd best try and finish off the grocers and the tree surgeon's yard next door. I'm happy that they can take their place on the layout though no sticking down as yet as there's more work on the layout itself to the side and rear that I want to do before final placement.

 

[MartinWales]

Is that the Tree Surgeons Branch Office?

 

[Herb Garden]

Is that the Tree Surgeons Branch Office?

And suitably equipped with telephones no doubt for all those trunk calls?

 

[John Duffy]

That is very nicely modelled.

 

[Kylestrome]

Is that the Tree Surgeons Branch Office?

That had me stumped for a while but then I twigged it.

 

[Captain Kernow]

Really lovely modelling, Neil, brilliant.

 

[Allen M]

But are they LOGGED on