I plucked up the courage to rip one of my tunnels apart to redo it. I'd guestimated that they were about 4ft high from the scetches I found. Then I tried to add a kneeling figure and realised that you need 5ft for a kneeling figure - DOH!! So, I scraped off all the timbers and Dremmeled the top and bottom off. I then replaced the floor and ceiling so that I could make the height 5ft and still have a small space for labels above and below.
I still have to repeat this on the clay kicking tunnel but wanted to clad this one with Balsa before I went too far backwards! This one is almost back to how it was, but I have to raise the height of the sandbags to block the explosion and put some Polyfilla between the timbers for soil.
The clay kicking tunnel is still to be ripped apart to enlarge but the mine version has been Dremmeled above and below to raise the roof, so a kneeling figure will fit in.
Here I was cutting strips of Balsa for the timber supports.
This shows how a kneeling figure will not fit in a 4ft tunnel!
I've marked where the timbers will go back in and prepared some roof timbers and side walls.
Ceiling and walls are now reclad.
Floor timbers are also in place. Now I need to raise the height of the sandbag 'tamping'.
I've not been very active recently due to work pressure, which has now quietened. My PC is also failing, so I may be absent or only on here occasionally.
Andy