Neb's Fun World is a full service entertainment centre. After a night of bowling or other fun activities some like to wet their whistle and visit with friends. The new micro brewery will be just the place to do it in style!The owners asked us to come up with a theme that will take this place over the top. The centrepiece is a giant brewing vat, tricked out with some very cool metal and woodwork. All of the room will get this same level of detail. Stay tuned for the unusual ideas to be revealed...
NEB's Railroad
One of the new things we are considering for the NEB's Fun World is a garden railway. It of course will be no ordinary garden railroad. A large scale railroad at faery scale becomes a riding railroad in NEB's garden. The European faery garden would be best served by an elegant European styled train. It would certainly be a fun project!
Launching a ship
We've yet to build something that doesn't fit out the giant magic doors of our shop but it has been a little tight on occasion. Over the last weeks the Viking ship seemed to get bigger and bigger with each passing day. A few days ago Peter and I actually got concerned enough to break out the tape measure to check things out. It looked good. Today it was time to actually begin pulling out the structure for the ship. We knew that the first piece would be the toughest. We first moved shelving and benches away from the back wall of the shop. Then we used the forklift to push the ship frame up against the back wall. The forklift was barely up to the task but after a couple of runs at it the job was done.
Then we unbolted the first large section of the hull and hooked up the chains. Again it was all our little forklift could handle but it managed to lift and pull the section of structure away from the rest. One end was hoisted onto a pallet jack. I then moved the forklift to the other end gingerly side shifted the piece over and over until it was against the side wall. Then we pulled the other end towards the door. With a couple of inches to spare it cleared all of the obstacles (as carefully planned of course) and we inched it out the door. It took four hours to remove about two thirds of the pieces of ship. We were much more concerned about safety than speed. The parking lot was suddenly very full! Tomorrow we'll remove the rest and begin work on the next one.
