With the majority of attendees on a Tuesday being members of the Painting and Prep team, it is often referred to as Painters Day. This was certainly so today as most of the effort was on TSO 5023.
With our trip to Fawley Hill on Thursday, Phil was in today instead and, harnessed up on the safety wire, began the clean up of the north end of 5023's roof. As Richard clearly demonstrates, most of the roof can be accessed from the tall scaffold. The safety wire is needed for the areas blocked off by the drainage channels and water tank pipework at that end, and for the remainder of the top section of the roof, especially behind the cowls.
There was still some secondary filling and tidying up to do on the Malvern side of 5023. Jeff files down a sharp corner at the base of the panelling.
Maurice began his day on the centre door which still needed some prep work before painting.
David was on secondary filling duty and removing some horizontal painting (arrrrgh!) on some of the window frames.
Jeff finished off the area worked on by Pam on Saturday at the north end and then greyed it up.
On the Cotswold side Richard applied the first of the line tape using Rod's excellent tool for this job, which, when held vertically under the gutter, indicates the position of the tops of the upper and lower lines. The yellow Tessa tape is then applied along the series of pencil markings.
With the tapes in place to the centre door, Richard applies the undercoat Madder to the top section.
With the top section completed. he undercoated the bottom half of the south end door.
Towards the end of the day Maurice began on the end window, but ended up painting the side panel.
At the end of the day a final look at the north half of the roof and the Malvern side now completely greyed up.
It began to drizzle and even became light rain for a while, all very welcome after that excessive heat. 2807 comes by with the Cheltenham train.
Nice to have a good look at the Youth Group's efforts on Saturday. The Starfish wagon is now looking very good on both sides.
The rain has stopped but the air now feels lovely and fresh. Foremarke Hall passes by with the Toddington - Broadway train.
[Photo : Paul] Maurice tidies up the planking inside the MICA van prior to Paul and him remounting the zinc sheeting.
The weather later brightened, but it was nicely warm and not hot when we went outside to watch 2807 leaving on the northbound run. The Cheltenham train has also started. Nice to have the old timetable back for the summer months and the trains once again regularly crossing over at Winchcombe.
Keith cleans up the dust from the new number plates for the Open C wagon and MICA van, ready for Pam to paint the numbers and letters.
This is something she loves doing and it made a change from all the filling and sanding on Saturday.
Job done with the plates ready for fitting at the weekend.
Robert, and Chris, prepared another base section of internal window frame for TSO 4867 .........
........ which was later given an initial coat of varnish by Keith.
Keith also added another coat of white gloss to the insides of the wall light shades from SO 4798.
Derek was applying sealant to some of the planking on the Monster van.
Another much heavier bout of rain appeared, this time lasting longer and leaving some sizeable puddles.
Pam has been away for a while, some of her time devoted to repairing the bench seat from Jeff's 1953 MG YB Saloon. Pam used to be self employed running a business refurbishing the interiors of classic cars and even light aircraft, so this job was very much in her court.
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