QUOTE: Originally posted by grande man Hang in there, Jerrell! The scenery is the fun part for me, hopefully you'll enjoy it too. Never forget the vision of the end product and take your time building.
QUOTE: Originally posted by malexenko yeah, I know I'm lucky. I know it every day. One of the reasons we haven't progressed as fst as I'd like, is little things like ("dad, don't we need to add a road to get to the top of the hill for the little people to be able to drive down", and "dad, can we have a lake with a crashed ufo in it?", and the list goes on).
QUOTE: Originally posted by selector Jarrell, you should understand that I went at my layout like I was possessed. In my professional life, I wrote documents, policies, and lectures. I could do those in one day. My layout is the only thing in my life that I knew was going to take me weeks of effort with little change apparent to me day-to-day. I almost got burned out, lost a great deal of sleep, and grew impatient at times. But, I kept my eye on the ball, so-to-speak, and saw it through. You will get there, but you might benefit from stepping back for a whole day, and drawing up a list of things you have to do, in the order that they should be done, so that you can derive a sort of timeline. I don't mean writing down "Have bridge installed by noon on Wednesday, 18 May." or anything like that. Just look at where you are, where you have to go (more like where you WANT to go), and itemize all the various steps. The neat part of this (now don't go getting all overwhelmed on me!!) is that you get to stroke off each step as you complete it! It gets you excited to see the progress that way, if not at your hands. You will begin to correlate the two, and it will help you to keep momentum. As for the turntable, I (think) I finally have it beaten into submission. Besides the wobbles described in an earlier thread, the bottom brass ring that the track wipers rub on kept slipping down off the pivot post, and I'd lose connectivity. I solved that with a screw centered in the bottom of the pivot with a plastic washer on it to keep the brass ring from sliding off. I tested it last night, in the layout, and it works fine. So, if you would like some on-line coaching, please feel free to contact me via e-mail, or here, as you wish. Regards, Crandell