{"id":101,"date":"2005-10-22T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T04:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=101"},"modified":"2005-10-29T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T19:17:50","slug":"cheap-paneling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Cheap paneling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Almost running&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Image copyright 2005 Tim Warris<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/pkimages\/dock-part-2\/50.jpg\" alt=\"50\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ferry dock control panel added!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Working at a snails pace, I managed to get the trackwork completed on the dock addition.  The other night we installed the switch machines and cut the gaps.  (We because Ron has been recruited).<\/p>\n<p>I did not want to get too fancy in the installation of the switches for the dock, as it looks like I may be moving soon and will have to dismantle the layout.  I do want to get this section operational though as I think it will still be six months or so before the dreaded dismantling.<\/p>\n<p>I got fancy anyway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Image copyright 2005 Tim Warris<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/pkimages\/dock-part-2\/51.jpg\" alt=\"51\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"475\" height=\"260\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>I drew up a 3 dimensional rendering of what I needed for a panel.  The overall size is 4&#8243;X12&#8243;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using the laser and some scrap 2mm plywood, I cut the panel in 3 layers.  There is a bottom layer, where the lettering and the logo was engraved onto.  The middle layer with the track schematic, and finally a top layer to frame it in.  The three layers were glued together to form the complete panel, about 1\/4&#8243; thick.<\/p>\n<p>This was then primed with a couple of coats of primer to disguise the wood grain.  It would look good to varnish this and leave the wood exposed, but I wanted to get a more &#8220;tarnished copper plaque&#8221; look.<\/p>\n<p>Image copyright 2005 Tim Warris<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/pkimages\/dock-part-2\/48.jpg\" alt=\"48\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Cheap grey primer sprayed onto the wood panel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once the primer was dry enough, I painted the entire panel brown.  Over this I drybrushed a turquoise layer, and some white highlights.  Once dry I gave the entire panel a wash of alcohol and leather dye to make it nice and dirty looking.<\/p>\n<p>Image copyright 2005 Tim Warris<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/pkimages\/dock-part-2\/47.jpg\" alt=\"47\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The panel is given faux tarnished copper paint job.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today we installed the toggle switches in the panel, which I hate the look of, but didn&#8217;t have much choice.  They do the job easily without getting too carried away in wiring up pushbuttons.<\/p>\n<p>The power was ran from the panel to the machines and everything is now live!  The only job left is to run the track power feeders.  Hopefully tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Image copyright 2005 Tim Warris<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/pkimages\/dock-part-2\/49.jpg\" alt=\"49\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Installed in place and ready to control the turnouts!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost running&#8230;. Image copyright 2005 Tim Warris Ferry dock control panel added! Working at a snails pace, I managed to get the trackwork completed on the dock addition. The other night we installed the switch machines and cut the gaps. (We because Ron has been recruited). I did not want to get too fancy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}