Wednesday the 7th Feb after a wet night outside painting and prep is out so something else to do.

Greg has been busy in the workshop after buying up the stock of Parkside magnetic storage strips and fixing them to the walls and sorting out the tools so everything has moved from it's known location. But life will be easier as things can be seen.

A walk down the platform and the museum coach roof looks better after a scrap and pressure wash just needs some good weather and a large quantity of matt black polyurethane paint when the weather is suitable..

The end corridor on the coach is looking great after the fitting and repairs

It was then down to platform one for some visual enhancement of the building around the down pipe GWR originally used cement and ground firebox ash for mortar so it is dark. 

Hammer and chisel time to remove mortar and broken bricks.

our collection of old bricks had no round corner ones so a trip to Winchcombe for a search in the storage yard.

The cast iroon down pipe join was broken and had had car body filler applied to repair it, so a good clean on the wire brush and liquid metal to reattach it

It was then on with the brickwork and removing two damaged corner bricks now we had replacements.

It was then time to start the brick repairs so a new rounded corner brick in first using a mortar mix with black colouring power mixed in.