Himself has finished painting and weathering the replacement walls on Dduallt.
It turns out that the old Pyruma walls hadn't completely crumbled. The stones - the wee balls of the cement - were still mostly intact, but it was the bonds between them which had turned to dust. Quite prototypical in fact.
About 75% of the walls have been replaced over the last week or so, and some other running repairs have been completed - mainly to the Ratio signals - ahead of its appearance at Railex. The last time Dduallt was on show was at Warley at the end of 2009.
One of the irritating side effects of the deterioration of the pyruma walls is that the sugar grain sized dust has spread itself around the layout and got into all the foliage and flock. It's made worse by the way the layout is stored, with the boards fitting together one on top of the other scenery to scenery, so as the walls on the top one crumbled the dust fell down onto the board below.
After sorting the scenery Himself has been back in the paintshop and some pictures of a lined-out Lyd are promised later this week. If you'd like to see those as soon as they appear why not sign up as a follower of this blog, or do the same on Twitter or Facebook.
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