The year is 1963 somewhere in Victoria, Australia

Dinner is served





Even with a photo slightly out of focus it is clear, dinner has been served to most of the guests at the Duncan & Fraser restaurant. A waiter is taken orders at the last table!

Great to see the layout in it's entirety in it's new home Claus - now we can get a feel of what goes where.  :thumbs

Looks like Duncan and Fraser is a rather up-market restaurant as opposed to a KFC …………… ;-)  Do they publish a menu - I'd like to reserve a table please ………..   It looks great. :cheers
 

Super detailing Claus.  How visible will it be when in situ?  Are you going to light it? It looks like the sort of restaurant that would have chandeliers…. now that would be a challenge
Michael

[user=1512]Headmaster[/user] wrote:

Super detailing Claus.  How visible will it be when in situ?  Are you going to light it? It looks like the sort of restaurant that would have chandeliers…. now that would be a challenge
Michael

Thanks for the kind words. Chandeliers would certainly be a challenge, which I unfortunately will not take up. I have already installed less extravagant lights in the ceiling. With the lights on the restaurant is visible through the windows. 

Ah, that's good - all that care and detail deserves to be seen.
Michael

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

Great to see the layout in it's entirety in it's new home Claus - now we can get a feel of what goes where.  :thumbs

Looks like Duncan and Fraser is a rather up-market restaurant as opposed to a KFC …………… ;-)  Do they publish a menu - I'd like to reserve a table please ………..   It looks great. :cheers
 

They do have a menu! Please remember, the year in Wombat Creek is 1963!

Hmm, a bit expensive!  ;-) ;-)

I consider that Sweet and Sour Chicken with Berries and Cream is 10-bob well spent!!

Rooms for rent



Part of the third floor of Duncan and Fraser is finished. Four rooms have been fitted out with beds, bedside tables and wardrobes. At least three rooms have already been booked. No. 1 at the corner is occupied by a lovely couple enjoying the view from the bed. No. 2 seems to be empty, but the bed appears to have been used! The gentleman in room 3 appears to quite upset, bashing and kicking the wall. Are we missing part of the story? No. 4 with the single bed may still be up for rent, or perhaps the guest has gone down to the bar or restaurant.

As soon as the hotel is back into its normal position, I will upload photos showing a more conventional view of three floors through the windows.

Peeping through windows

With the second and third floor in place Duncan and Fraser looks like this at night time:









It is a little difficult to capture all of the inside in photos but as you can see, the bar and restaurant are very busy. On the third floor the couple in the corner room no. 1 are still enjoying the view of the busy intersection. The couple in room no. 2 have returned and are less concerned about the view. Perhaps curtains should be drawn! In room no. 3 the occupant are still bashing and kicking the wall. No further comment on the reason why! Room no. 4 is still empty, so why is the light on?

I like a room with a view. When I visited Melbourne with work I stayed in a nice hotel with a good view. 
That is some great modelling work. There is some amazing detail in there. 

The less said about what goes on above the restaurant, the better …………………. :roll:

It's a great looking building Claus - can the bedroom TVs get Netflix ?

Some absolutely wonderful modelling work there, Claus. 

:doublethumb

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

The less said about what goes on above the restaurant, the better …………………. :roll:

It's a great looking building Claus - can the bedroom TVs get Netflix ?

HA, HA. It's 1963.  ;-)The rooms don't have a TV and the bathrooms are down the corridor. 

Ha ha ha.  And the pipes bang whilst waiting the 10 minutes for the hot water to arrive …….

Super modelling, it is a treat to be able to peek inside.
Michael

Low-hanging branches

The driver of No. 17 has a problem approaching the Church Street stop. The double-decker tram can't pass the trees in front of the Queen Victoria Market.



The 'traditional' Australian solutions would be cutting the offending branches. Often big gum trees (eucalypts) are used along the streets even under power lines. Said trees will grow to more than 20 metres in height, which of course will interfere with the power lines. The solution is not planting lower trees, but cutting the main trunk. Instead you will have to major branches each to facing sides with the power lines passing through the middle of the tree, which to my opinion is not very attractive.

So the solution in Wombat Creek will not be cutting branches. Instead the trees will grow taller!

[user=2172]Claus Ellef[/user] wrote:

Low-hanging branches

The driver of No. 17 has a problem approaching the Church Street stop. The double-decker tram can't pass the trees in front of the Queen Victoria Market.



The 'traditional' Australian solutions would be cutting the offending branches. Often big gum trees (eucalypts) are used along the streets even under power lines. Said trees will grow to more than 20 metres in height, which of course will interfere with the power lines. The solution is not planting lower trees, but cutting the main trunk. Instead you will have to major branches each to facing sides with the power lines passing through the middle of the tree, which to my opinion is not very attractive.

So the solution in Wombat Creek will not be cutting branches. Instead the trees will grow taller!

Yes, the usual solution is to mangle the trees to ridiculous degrees - 'Y' shaped trees.
The layout is looking really good, Claus.

The trees are growing


 








The double-decker tram are no longer barred from the Circle Line. The offending trees in front of the Queen Victoria Market has grown in height. Not unusual for trees to do so, but the point of growth is normally at the top of the tress and not at the lower end of the trunks. A skewer was inserted into the existing trunk and 'No-more-gap' filler applied. After some brown paint was added the tress were put back in place. As seen in the third photo, the double-decker tram can just pass under the trees.

The double-decker facing problems – again!

The driver of the double-decker tram ran into a new problem today. As shown in an earlier post the crew at the workshop made a test-run past the Golden Fleece petrol station. All good, even the clearance was a bit tight.



Unfortunately the tram has a tendency to swing from side to side. In its hometown Hobart it caused a few derailments and overturns. In Wombat Creek it stayed upright put hanging from the canopy of the petrol station.



All tram lines pass the petrol station, so the canopy had to be cut back. Fortunately not a huge job and it is impossible to notice the difference between the original and cut-back version.