My wife says I can take over the basement if I provide more storage for her paintings etc. than she has now. She says garage is okay if I can provide weather protection.
This changes everything. Oh, there's so much to do. More research, more planning--more money--
where to begin, where to begin
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
SpaceMouse wrote: My wife says I can take over the basement if I provide more storage for her paintings etc. than she has now. She says garage is okay if I can provide weather protection.This changes everything. Oh, there's so much to do. More research, more planning--more money--where to begin, where to begin
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Chip, you've been struggling with the space issue for a long time.
Does this mean you can change your handle to Space Whale?
Just think of what you can accomplish in N scale now!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
wm3798 wrote: Just think of what you can accomplish in N scale now!
Hey, yeah, now Chip can do the entire Sierra Nevada mountain range, complete with all of the trains, circa 1888!
wm3798 wrote: Does this mean you can change your handle to Space Whale?
Nah. Space elephant
Elephant - a mouse built to government specifications.
Just think of what you can accomplish in N scale now!Lee
Think BIG!!! What could you do with an expanded Angry Beaver?
All joking aside, congratulations! Looking forward to the new, improved layout plan.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Congratulations Chip
I hope you keep it logging themed , you could model the Westside !!
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/
tomikawaTT wrote:Think BIG!!! What could you do with an expanded Angry Beaver?
Nope, won't even TOUCH that straight line!
Chip,
This will surely get you to rethink your world. We will enjoy your journey.
Sue
PS. Are you still doing the cowboy action shooting when you are not working on the railroad?
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Go here for my rail shots! http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?userid=9296
Building the CPR Kootenay division in N scale, blog here: http://kootenaymodelrailway.wordpress.com/
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.
gandydancer19 wrote:You do realize that this is an oportunity to provide heating and cooling in your new layout space don't you? Just make some storage slots under the layout for your wife's paintings.
I was thinking the same thing. If the under-layout space can hold the paintings, then you can use the garage for something unique, like maybe cars and stuff.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasley wrote:....then you can use the garage for something unique, like maybe cars and stuff.
What a concept!
lvanhen wrote: Good luck - now you have to redesign everything all over - or have you been planning this takeover for a while!!
Today the basement, tomorrow the world.
SpaceMouse wrote: lvanhen wrote: Good luck - now you have to redesign everything all over - or have you been planning this takeover for a while!!Today the basement, tomorrow the world.
Wrong mouse! Thats Brain, from Pinky & the Brain! So who's Pinky? (Careful how you answer this one! It's a loaded question!)
MisterBeasley wrote: gandydancer19 wrote:You do realize that this is an oportunity to provide heating and cooling in your new layout space don't you? Just make some storage slots under the layout for your wife's paintings.I was thinking the same thing. If the under-layout space can hold the paintings, then you can use the garage for something unique, like maybe cars and stuff.
It is obvious you need more data. My wife has a certain amount of storage for paintings already. I have to provide storage for those. 3-4 times a year my wife has shows at galleries/museums etc.. Sometimes she brings back more paintings than she sells.
So she paints better ones for her next show. The old ones are not good enough to show again, so they have to be stored. I have paintings from the mid-70's in storage. Roughly figure that my storage collection will grow by 10-paintings a year. Every spot under the layout will be alloted for future painting storage. The garage may delay the inevitable, but if I can get the benchwork in before I'm over run--possession is 9 /10 of the battle.
FYI:Her Website
Joe
Modeling:
Providence & Worcester Railroad
"East Providence Secondary"
HO scale
mammay76 wrote:Congrats SpaceMouse, it's a great feeling when you get somthing you've been wanting for a long time!! overwhelmed yet with ideas??
I've had an idea for a while. My job now is to try to focus on what it is I really want and stop splitting my attention.
tomikawaTT wrote: Think BIG!!! What could you do with an expanded Angry Beaver?
Thanks Chuck, Now there's an image I won't be losing anytime soon.
I think I'm going to have to hire myself to get rid of my nightmares.
I hope you didn't kill anyone I knew to get it.....
JBSteamer wrote: Do I smell another layout contest coming? We'd have some fun with that one.
Okay here's the new contest.
Use any room is 23 x 26.
On the west wall (26') just to the south of center is a staircase going up. Then further south is the washer and dryer and sink.
On the south wall there is a power service box 2 feet from the east wall.
On the North wall is a door to the garage a furnace and water heater.
The East wall jogs 2 feet in 9' from the south wall.
It can be any era, location, roadname and theme as long as it's a prototypical logging operation between Willits and Fort Bragg California running the California Western and Northwestern Pacific Railroads in 1917.
Any questions?
These will be due in two weeks.
Sheetrock the garage interior. Paintings can decorate floor to ceiling.
Basement will be for junk storage if you don't claim it first.(Don't leave any room).
May I suggest 'Domino' modules and narrow aisles. Sell your HO, and go On3. You'll settle on one or two engines and due to costs, will concentrate on trackwork.
I'm thiinking how you 'acquired' your ' handle'.
'Nuff said.
Actually I was thinking that now I could design an N-scale type layout using HO...all the advantages of both. Kinda like a WM contest entry--but with less track.
Don,
Decorate? Decorating is having multiple paintings on my walls in office. We are talking, a filing system with vertical slots three tiers high
SpaceMouse wrote: I've had an idea for a while. My job now is to try to focus on what it is I really want and stop splitting my attention.
LOL!!!!! thats my whole problem!! good luck, looking forward to seeing a track plan!
'N' Gauge? NO, no, no! Athousand times no.
Too many options for someone with multiple talents and interests.
Tke a lesson from David Barrow: 4' 'Dominos', Valance lighting, Fascia, Wieless operation.
Don Gibson wrote: 'N' Gauge? NO, no, no! Athousand times no.Too many options for someone with multiple talents and interests.Tke a lesson from David Barrow: 4' 'Dominos', Valance lighting, Fascia, Wieless operation.
I'll think about Dominos, but frankly I don't see the advantage. Facia Always. Wireless likely.
Valence Lighting--Like track lighting.
But the main thing is that three of you have brought up On30. I had not considered it, but I had/have some my pre-concevied notions about N-scale, so I should listen.
My preconceived notions.
On30 layouts tend to be mostly fantasy.O scale figures look horible to me--don't know why. I can probably fix them with work.They have more of the smaller steam I like to model.
Real Downside. The logging roads--California Redwoods--tended towards standard guage. My favorite and the one I have researched the most, the California Western was Standard Guage. There were exceptions I admit, but mostly below the redwoods and up near Eureka.
Where am I wrong?