A little renovation

We've been doing a spot of carpentry here. The painting is largely finished, although a couple of external windows are getting a bit of special attention. Here are some shots of a downstairs door. The duller portions of blue hadn't seen a lick of paint since some time in the '90s, apparently. The other picture is the carpentry I mentioned. From the garden I realised the wood on one of our windows had quite rotted away. Like a flash my brother had removed it, and we spent three hours removing the damaged section and fashioning a replacement. The refurbished part is going up in an hour or two. Prospective burglars reading this should note that there are four of us in the house, and they'll need Spiderman-like agility to reach the missing window! I'll do my best to get a shot for comparison, but the weather's gone a bit grey here, so a similarly sunny picture might demand a day or two.

Painting in progress

There haven't been many updates lately. Last weekend I popped down to Wales to pre-celebrate a friend's birthday, and this week I have been hard at work painting. You may have guessed the "but" by now: I've mainly been painting the house. Apparently, nobody's painted the first floor in a while, possibly three decades, but I wouldn't swear to that. The current plan is to spend about a month on the upstairs landing and hall. It could be less if we had more sheets to cover the floor, but there we are. I have been managing a spot of painting, but have been a bit lax about getting the models up. I'll see about remedying that shortly. Under way are some Copplestone naval figures, some civilians and a range of WWI troops. Photos will follow - of both the models and the corridor I am currently painting. I shall have to take some "before and after" photos of the next section.