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I have started work on my layout about 7 weeks ago. It´s a T-shaped shelf layout, with the leg of the "T" being detachable. The layout covers an area of not more than 22 sq. ft. and it shares the room with two desks, a sofa, a big wardrobe and a couple of book cases. The room is our "family" room, office, laundry room, guest room and now train room. In those 7 weeks I put up the benchwork, laid the track, did all the messy work on the scenery, scratchbuilt two docks, wired it, painted and installed the backdrop. This required an average of 5 hours work each day, with less than a handful of days without any activity on the layout. This is quite fast, but as my wife and I spend most of the day in this room, I wanted the layout to look "decent" as soon as possible, just to make the room look nice again to feel comfortable in it. I store all the material I need for the construction in three boxes right now sitting on the sofa, but they empty pretty quickly ... Even if I could continue to work on the layout in this pace, I think I´d need a few more years before I reach a state where it is "nearly finished" As it is really a small, if not tiny layout, detail is of bigger importance. Ever scratchbuilt a lobster trap in O scale? it´s those thing that will be very time consuming. A month per sq. ft. - not a bad indication!
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