The Packing Shed

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Close up of well oiled chain, No rust here

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It looks very nice, Don.

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Thought the clock did not look quite right to me, so took it down & added a box bit underneath, that some older clocks seem to have,
& hid the word 'Quartz' by using a line of very fine dots of ivory acrylic paint

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Found a couple of green containers of "Rubbish Slime" in a toy shop, painted one black for "landfill only",
the other is for recycling, must remove the word 'rubbish' & hope I eventually get round to fitting wheels.
So then we will have a pair of the Ubiquitous Wheelie Bins

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Been assembling a collection of bits & pieces to put in odd corners of shed.
I am leaning towards muiltiple use of this shed, after all, packing of produce cant take place at full capicity for all 12 months of the year, so in out of season it will also be used as a vehicle maintenance & overhaul shop, which would allow me to use things like these cam belts, inspired by reading Christian & Anders Junior garage threads

Mmmhh, looks like someone packed them inside out   

This is 1/12 BTW, thats a small enamel paint tin in the back ground

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Collection of bits some in dirty/rusty condition, some well painted

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I have made a base to stand beside the workshop, for outside storage shed of old boxes etc
its made up by laminating cereal box card both sides of a 10mm sheet of polystyrene, yes that horrible messy stuff, but it was free.
Adding a 2nd layer of said ps & then another layer of card, forming a very light but yet strong base, then sealing the edges with more card.

Thats pegleg Karl asking Ian which cam belt he needs, the 9x or the 6x, for the forks

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Back to the stairs, in my real life, leanto garden shed I have open rafters that come in very handy to poke things up through to keep the ground clear for my wheelchair, wood, odd bits of pipe, etc. etc. are out of the way above the eyeline, but always to hand when I remember  they are there. So I thought, thats what would happen under the floor between the support beams behind the stairway in the model.
3 clusters of bits that will slide in under the floor. lightly glued so that they dont fall apart when being transported

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2 long black bits from off an old fire spark guard, a long bit of 10mm styrene tube, long so that from any underneath photo shot they look of useful size to save, could be for a deep half round rainwater gutter,
on top, short offcuts of smaller diam tube, short as they will only be seen from front edge when in place, all super glued together

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4 bits of scale lumber 3/8ths inch square, held together by pva gluing a bit of thin card to the TOP at the back

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Odd scraps of wood with interesting end profiles pva'ed together

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Partially in place, nice snug fit so they dont slide out, but removable if I want to do a scenery change

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Front 3/4 view from underneath

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view from back not normaly seeable, but I have removed the stair unit from the shed so as to get daylight through the window on it. It is far to cold to take outside to photo.

The messy infill below the stairs was not meant to be viewable when in situ

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A few boxes posed for more visual interest