mcfunkeymonkey Thanks for looking.
Thanks for looking.
Gidday MC, I don't think that its a case of thanking us for looking, but rather a BIG thanks for sharing.
No pressure , but awaiting your next project with bated breath.
Keep Having Fun.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I've really enjoyed this thread, and the one featuring your switching layout. It's too bad this layout can't be left intact for others to enjoy. Seems like such a waste to destroy something so well done.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Well, 'tis done.Saved all the structures and bridges:[no way the bents were coming out from the water!]Want to know what 400+ pine trees looks like bunched together?You've seen my daughter's and my "Train-in-a-Box" layout [and if you haven't, there'll be a two-part article in the next issues of N-Scale Magazine], well, now see my "Train-in-a-Bag":So it goes.On the plus side, in addition to all the spare structures and trees, as well as all the skillz I learned, I have a heck of a lot more space in the garage & around the workbench. Better get to filling that up with a new layout! [Right after I finish my Free-moN Shoo-fly module: I promised myself I wouldn't start another project until finishing that one!]Thanks for looking.
M.C. Fujiwara
My YouTube Channel (How-to's, Layout progress videos)
Silicon Valley Free-moN
This is indeed a sad sight! I really loved this wonderful little layout - did it have to go this way?
shame to see it go your article helped kick me into gear building my first 2x4 n scale layout.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
This layout has been definitely worth it in terms of skillz-building, and as much as I'd love to "finish" it (and sell it), it'd just take more work than I have the heart right now.
And I really couldn't sell it in good-conscience as-is: the trackwork is attrocious. And I want to save the structures for the next project, and this layout is nothing special without the scratchbuilds.
Plus, I tend to get to the point where I've learned what I need to from a layout and then get more excited about starting the next project than finishing this one. As the poet William Carlos Williams wrote: "If the power to go on falters in the middle of the sentence--that's the end of the sentence."
And I've learned:
1) do your trackwork right the first time & make it perfect so everything and their mothers can run on it 2) power your frogs the first time 3) don't spend all that time scratchbuilding structures and creating nice scenery and then use catapult-sized ground throws 4) did I mention have great trackwork and powered frogs? Right now I have a half-decent diorama, but I'd like to have an actual layout I can enjoy running trains on. Which requires kick-a$$ trackwork. And powered frogs.
Thanks to all who made suggestions / comments while I was working on it. Definitely helped!
Hope you enjoy the video (it's in 1080p! so it looks great full-screen!) Cheers!
Having dismanlted and rebuilt my own layout several times, I know well that "Oh brother I gotta rethink this..." moment.
Onward and Upward, look forward to part 2
Have fun with your trains