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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by clinchvalley</i> <br /><br />Big step, congratulations. It looks like it's going to be a fun layout to operate. <br />And yes, backdrop should be next. How about ceiling and lights? <br /> <br />Anything you can do in the prep work now before you actually start laying track will pay big benefits down the road. <br /> <br />Good luck, keep us posted on your progress. Looking great. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Thanks... <br /> <br />Ceiling and lights... Sigh. <br /> <br />Lights are easy: You're right, and I just forgot to write down that lighting is next too, lumped that in with backdrop. <br /> <br />As for celling... that's problematical. I'm not sure if you can tell in the photos, but the homebuilder didn't exactly make it a finishing-friendly basement. To put in any kind of celing other than drop tiles would be near-impossible. To put in drop tiles, i would either have to have an extraordinarily complex structure on about 6 different heights and sections, or drop the whole thing to 6' to just make it a flat plain... I don't really want to make what is mostly a 9' ceiling down into something that challenges anyone 6'+ tall (which includes the most-frequent visitor - me... <br /> <br />The other thing I thought was to put in some sort of ceiling/ceiling boards over the 80% of the ceiling that's relatively flat and level, and just deal with vents, pipes, and other basementy stuff protruding down in the other 20%... Whaddya think there? <br /> <br />So I hear ya and will re-ponder that issue... But previous ponderings have resulted in much "Uhhh Dunno, I give" <br /> <br />
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