Chalk Another one up for the Challenger

[Anonymous]

Well I finally broke out of my paralisis and got working on a project.

I had had this Kitbashed Galloping Goose like thing sitting on the back shelf for a while. I had been asked to assemble the drive train and install the decoder in MDCs Galloping Goose Kit. After pondering how to put it together since I was supplied it without instructions. I got it put together and the decoder Wired in just shy of three hours.

It is now done. Back to the owner to have the body and cab attatched.

Have fun. carry on.

James

[Anonymous]

The hardest step can be the first one -- just get it started!

Sure is rewarding when you get a job well done!

[Anonymous]

One of my future projects is scratching a freelance goose from drawings in the November 1965 RMC. I expect it will be both fun and an education. So far haven't found a suitable 16" bogie for the front.

[CG9602]

Hey Challenger: Me too! Me too! I finished up the 2-8-4+4-8-2 Garratt (the first one). What a challanging kit. Not that I'm complaining or anything - this was a challange that I placed on myself, and other things like Grad School and acting classes interrupted my efforts. The other poster is correct in that the biggest challenge is getting started. I shall also add that, for me, the next biggest challenge is wrapping it up. You know, putting on the final touches. I wish I had a digital camera, so I could post some pictures of this, my first, effort. It's taken me , oh, about a couple of months.

Hey, I'm having fun building it!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CG9602

Hey Challenger: Me too! Me too! I finished up the 2-8-4+4-8-2 Garratt (the first one). What a challanging kit. Not that I'm complaining or anything - this was a challange that I placed on myself, and other things like Grad School and acting classes interrupted my efforts. The other poster is correct in that the biggest challenge is getting started. I shall also add that, for me, the next biggest challenge is wrapping it up. You know, putting on the final touches. I wish I had a digital camera, so I could post some pictures of this, my first, effort. It's taken me , oh, about a couple of months.

Hey, I'm having fun building it!

This story sounds familiar. Did we meet on Railchat.com a while back? A fellow there was also working on a Garret. I have been wondering how that Garrent project was going. If you are one in the same. glad it got wraped up and is working well for you.

In case anyone is wondering, I am waiting on some trucks to show up so I can fini***hat GN box car I am doing, and I am starting an HOn3 "San Juan" Passenger car set painted in a freelanced paint scheme for a client. With Summer vacation starting next week. My mouth is watering to get at it.

James

[Anonymous]

Glad to see your back in the swing of things James.
I get in those slumps myself. I've got a backlog of projects right now that I'm finally starting to make progress on. I may actually be firing up the airbru***omorrow.

[Anonymous]

Glad to hear it. I knew I was really in a slump when the count of projects I am tied into that I can actually keep track of, was above 800 (I keep databases about such things)and that count keeps growing. (I can't wait until I am out of college. I will actually have time to do stuff) and not one thing has been finished since Christmas. (That count includes personal and business projects.)

I have a fresh sense of enthusiasim and am looking foward to taking a big bite out of that "pile" of work to do this summer.

James