Wombat Creek Tramways

As some of you may know, moving between houses is time consuming. Occasionally you get a day off and I relax with a bit of modelling. The Comedy Theatre is coming along nicely.

Moving from one place to another often involves living in two places at once. Well, it is the case for Wombat Creek. The layout is sitting comfortably in its new home but with no spare time, no modelling is going on. However, with few days back at our old home I have some time to work on the Comedy Theatre. I brought the building to the layout for a ‘fitting’. Here is the result:

The layout has been set up in the new ‘tram room’. Most of the buildings are still in boxes and a few wires need to bee reconnected. Best of all, there is room for an extension of the narrow gauge railway! Before long trains could be running down to Gumnut Gully!

From this:

To this:

and this:

With less than a week before Wombat Creek goes into boxes ready for a big relocation the ground floor of the Comedy Theatre is taking shape. Further construction is still planned during the relocation period.

With only a few weeks to go before Wombat Creek will be packed up in boxes and put into a van destined for the layout’s new home, work on the Comedy Theatre has commenced. The first photo show a cut-out print of the Rivoli Cinema, which will be turned into the Comedy Theatre in Wombat Creek. A ‘smaller issue’ with the model is condensing the length to 200 mm instead of 400 mm whilst keeping the correct height. Forced perspective in action, I suppose. The second photo shows the walls of the ground floor in place. I think it will work out okay.

Spiro has made good progress on his milk bar. It is now open for business and the first customers are trying out the different shakes. Spiro himself is at the counter whilst his wife is working in the kitchen. Still, Spiro needs to cover a few holes in the roof and perhaps erect a sign to attract even more customers.