The 'story' of the 'truncated' tunnel is that originally the right side of the tunnel actually went right across the scene to the backboard. A railway from another company went across the top of the tunnel, while one went underneath. The former company went bust and the railway went into disrepair following abandonment. The latter company then decided to develop the area as a motive power depot (MPD) and subsequently excavated the right hand side of the tunnel to make way for the MPD yard and to service the new industries that started to make use of the facilities. Hence the siding running along side of the rock wall.
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| Here you can see the 'black rock walls' of the tunnel with various colours of paint to hopefully give the impression of a mossy rock face. On top of the tunnel is the abandoned railway with static grass and puff ball bushes in place. I will probably add a tree or two as well. The fence is there for planning purposes. I will probably paint it brown to give the impression of an unmaintained fence. |
I also experimented through the week with the idea of a 'climber' going up the rock face. The outcome can be seen to the left of the masking tape in the photo. Basically a pipe cleaner with a small piece wired up at another angle, then spray painted black and left to dry. Then once dry, sprayed with hair spray and flock sprinkled/pressed on and let to set. Yet to install to see how it looks.
The only other thing during the week was I started on the NSWGR 'S' wagon kit and potted around with the Pi.
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