Bottle Stand Mini makes its debut

Back in mid June we mentioned, in our post Work in progress, that we were developing a mini version of our Bottle Stand.

Now the first batch has been laser cut to take 3 bottles with a diameter of 40mm, and they are available to buy on Scale-Replicas.com

They are cut from 3mm laser grade plywood. We will be offering them with alternative diameter holes to accommodate paint ranges like Tamiya, Humbrol, etc.

Preparing and fitting our OO gauge modern cable troughs

Having cut all the straight sections from the fret the next thing to do is clean them up with a needle file. This is just to remove the burr where the pieces were attached to the fret.

With that done, we suggest fixing them to a suitable piece of wood with double sided tape, to make spray painting easier. Spray painting will give a superior finish and retain the etched section lines. Off course you can always use your own preferred method of painting instead.

If sections do need to be shortened this is easily done with a razor saw.

Once prepared, the sections of cable trough can be fixed into place on your layout with an application of PVA glue.