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[quote user="SpaceMouse"][quote user="reklein"] I'm not so sure I'd discourage SooNScaler. Some guys really fly at it. Look at Alan B and all hes accomplished in under a yar I think. Malcom Furlow could really get things done too. I have  freind who has rebuilt a Piper Tripacer including scratch building the wings, bought and refinished two 80's Corvettes and built a hotrod Ford model A. I have other freinds who"ve had similar projects laying around for years. One guy has about 15 VWs that hes had for over 20.     " Nope can't sell em, gonna rebuild at least one and I need the parts."So anyways SooNScaler if you lived closer I'd come over and help.[C):-)][/quote]I'm not sure I'm discouragaing rather playing devil's advocate and throwing the numbers out there. I have freind who has a large layout and it took 5 years of 5 people working to get it to the point they could run ops. And using Furlow and Alan B as examples doen't quite cut it. Their layouts are 1/10 this size. So if you use this analogy, he should be at Alan's point in 10 years (and he plulled a lot from his old layout.) I have no qualms about building a lifetime project. I just think it is more sensitible to build in phases and expand. [/quote]Since my name has come up:My layout has 1/6 of the track and 1/7 of the turnouts in this large layout.  All of my bench work, track and turnouts were done in about one month ( 7/28 to 9/04/06).  Most of the buildings (left over from prior layout) were in place and basic landscape work was done in (one of - EDIT) the two "major" towns.  In other words, the layout was sparse, but fully operational.  By 11/03/06, 50 pounds of plaster was used to form the mountains (all of the hidden track was in fact hidden).  During this time period (three months), I probably (did not punch a time clock) averaged 4-6 hours per day on layout construction.  Since then, I have been plugging away; but mostly operating instead of constructing.What we don't know, is how much time this person has to actually work on the layout or how much "help" is available.  It is a very large layout and will require a lot of work.  If the desire and hours per day are available; this would be a fun layout for a "retired" guy (or small group of guys) to build.  It "could" become an operational plywood empire in a few months with a lifetime of scenery and structure work left over (no layout is really finished).If the desire, time and money are there; go for it !  Otherwise scale back or build it in operational stages so that construction does not take years before any "real" operations are possible.
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