Butch, you have hit the nail square on the head. I look at all of this...the issue of working out benchwork, choosing an area and a scale to model, choosing a layout, and being able to communicate with people like you and the others as being all good. I don't regret starting the way I did. For one thing, it has opened the door for me to get to know a lot of you fellows who I hope to have a continuing relationship with over the years. Butch, it's just all good ole pal...all good...just have to take things that way and see the good even in mistakes. Most things turn out well if you just give them a chance, but I felt good when I read of your own "misfortunes"... sort of let me know everything's OK. Doc
Butch, I replied but for some reason, I don't think it went through. I just wanted to say I appreciated you sharing your "misfortunes" over the years. Butch, I look at this as a good thing. I don't regret the way I started with the benchwork even though it's not the proper way. If I hadn't started that way, I wouldn't have been able to meet you and so many others through this thread. At the end of the day, I'll get somewhere but I'll enjoy every step along the way and things will be a lot better since I'll have shared this journey with you and others. Sure I'll make mistakes. I expect to, but I don't look at mistakes as set backs but opportunities to enjoy the hobby even more. And you are right, we learn by making mistakes. The main thing is to make the main thing the main thing and the main thing is to enjoy the trip...my interaction on this site just makes that trip more enjoyable. Doc
Mistakes ???? surely you jest.
There are but a few of us born knowing every thing; But I think those other guys lie
As to my mistakes, well they were someone else's fault
I was wondering why OO ??
Partly because dad was in stationed in England before he was shot down over France and taken POW by the Germans for 2 1/2 years and we discussed it when I was a boy, and partly because my wife is from Ireland and my ancestry is in Scotland, and partly because she and I watch the PBS show Father Brown which is set in that area of the Cotswolds and it is just plumb beeeutiful, and the Enlgish scale is OO instead of HO. I guess that's about it for reasons. Doc
Just wanted to see if my new avatar came through...this is a test.... Doc
aprofitt0002 Just wanted to see if my new avatar came through...this is a test.... Doc
Looks like the avatar worked. My British wife says photo's are a good thing to put in the windows of the house to scare away burglars!
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Just want to point something out, just because I have not built a layout does not render the advice I gave useless, all of it came from the many books about layout building I have read.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Hi!
FIrst of all, I'm a strong advocate of "newbies" studying the various Kalmbach books out there before they lay a track or even put a kit together.
That said, you can read all the books there are, and retain all the information within, but until you do the "layout process" hands on, you really don't know the ins and outs of what is really involved.
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
Steve, I listened to your advice with the same degree of interest that I gave to the advice that everyone gave me and I appreciate it and I want you to do something for me, promise me that when you do create your first layout you will post it to this site so all of us can take a look at it. I believe you will do it and I have no doubt that it will be far superior to mine! Doc
You are right, my friend...there is no substitute for having done something yourself and in the long run that is going to be my labor of love. Blessings, Doc