[Graham Lane]

Great stuff Gerard and thanks for the links to the previous track, which I somehow missed. Stunning!

Good luck with the new build and a good choice of location! I'll raise a glass to that!

 

[Graham Lane]

Great plans and great work so far.

You also have some nice cars there. They qualify for the MMM. Have you considered entering them. If you can't come yourself you know they would be well looked after.

 

[Graham Lane]

Hmmm, interesting. You probably know that there are many ways of supporting vines, and in fact many ways of growing them too.

I'm going to opt for a more modern way with concrete posts made from cook's matches and fine nickel plated wire. The vines will also be grown in the modern way as a sort of upside down L where the shoots grow up from the horizontal bit. Yours will need to be the five branch type I guess. Vertical trunk with two branches off either side, then another two further up and finally one vertical at the top.

Classic cars deserve classic wine!

The vineyards around me have both sorts of support and both types of vine style.

I'm watching with great interest.

 

[Graham Lane]

That's not a Lancia Appia I see, is it?

 

[Graham Lane]

No, it's a Fiat 600.

 

[Graham Lane]

Wow, that looks the dog's biscuits! I love the arched wall.

I have an idea. What about spreading a single layer of gravel on a sheet of glass in a wooden frame and then pouring liquid plaster mixed with a little colouring over it? The gravel would have mostly flat sides outwards and should look really realistic. I might give that a whirl.

Ember
I hope you aren't affected by the floods. My brother lives in Egypt and is currently barracaded into his house with twenty tanks in the street outside. Wife and two small kids with no phone and no internet so we can't contact him. That's scarey!

 

[Graham Lane]

I've found the posts for my vineyard, 2mm square walnut stock. Perfect. I've also walked across to the vineyard over the road and taken some measurements on height and spacing. Posts will be painted grey to represent concrete and colour-washed to age. The vines themselves will be copper wire flex weathered to a natural dark brown colour, bent and spread then dipped in glue then coloured sawdust before glueing in place. Supporting wires will be silver coloured wire, again weathered to dull it down. Pictures will follow on my thread.

 

[Graham Lane]

Superb photos and some great track ideas. I really must get a better camera and have some lessons!

My vineyard, yet to be assembled, will be made of similar materials. I hope it turns out as good as yours.