Staining some wood

Stained both types of ties in thinned brown colour:

And drying:

This afternoon I compared the colours in the light. I am satisfied with the brownish look of the ties:

And made a base for the assembly of the trestle legs:

Later!

More pics

Had forgotten some pictures. This is the new height wet in the JV drawing:

And the drawing set in the layout:

Also did some colour stain testing on the JV wood as on Kappler ties:

Translation: grijs = grey, bruin = brown

Painted the bridgewalls today:

I think still too dark.

Determined the swing of the bridge and draw that on the layout:

Made a drawing for the right short trestle. Starting with a piece of A4 paper:

Marked the end points:

With the help of this tool once belonged to my dad (he was a carpenter):

Drawing the lines:

And glued it on a piece of board:

Oeps... had to be mirror image so I made a new one and glued that on the other side of the board:

Measuring out the place of the ties:

And the stuff needed to make this drawing:

With the drawing of the kit and the SP plans I can make a fairly precise copy of it:

And in the layout to see if it will fit:

More to come!

Some paintwork

Painting the base of the swing bridge:

Also the wooden part, first priming:

Painting it grey:

Some grey went trough the seems of the masking tape, had to redo some of the black:

 Mockup of the painted parts:

And a nice bridge view of what it will become:

Later more:

Painting the truss bridges part 2

Ready for painting:

And iron colour is on it:

Dry:

And both dry:

They are now ready for weathering and assembly. After that they will be installed on the layout when the landscape is finished.

More to come!

Painting the Truss bridges part 1

Today I painted the base colour of the two truss bridges. The parts of batch 1:

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Painted black:

And drying:

Batch 2:

Masking the centerpilon of the swingbridge:

And paint it black:

And all the parts in basic black colour:

Bridge building

Made the drive with the end switches for the swingbridge:

Mounted the second switch in the pilon instead on one of the bridge ends:

In place:

Got my second shipment from RD Hobby from Germany:

Making the second set of bridge pilons:

The set:

Test fitting:

Started the 2nd bridge build sunday afternoon:

Base parts:

Glued together:

Side parts:

Ready:

Top piece with reinforcements:

Bridge subassemblies:

 Test fit:

On the layout:

See through:

Other side:

And with opened bridge:

Movie: