I've finally gotten to the point of determining my lighting needs and methods for my layout.  Several months ago I created a blog to share my work, which you are welcome to explore at the link below.  I haven't added to it much yet as I'm still in the room-prep stage, but I figure now is as good a time as any to start sharing my work and ideas with the rest of the community.

The last few days I have been asking a lot of questions and getting answers I don't always like but they are the hard truth from experience. I taught myself to stumble thru Xtrackcad so I can put my ideas in scale and it really changes the perspective of what will work and what won't. I am really enjoying the xtrackcad software but the learning curve is still steep. And looking for items in the para files is time consuming.

Beside working on my room sized layout, I started a micro-layout project. The idea behind it is actually a contest entry more than having a second realm to play with.

Some of the progress photo made it to the WPF sections but here is a sum-up of some pictures :

Well it's February and I haven't done anything significant on the layout for a couple of months now, so it's time to get busy again.

The next project is Atherton. This is by far the biggest section so far and will also complete the top deck.

First - a distant view of the somewhat scary,  but equally exciting gap that needs filling. This shot taken from Atherton engine terminal with the overhead layout lights deliberately switched off to emphasize the target area: