Personal journal (editorial or commentary)
Planning the Future
With all of my gear in boxes back in Flin Flon awaiting the move to Emo Ontario, I have time to con'tim'plate the future layout in my new house. Yes, we don't have a house yet but I am working on it. I am used to three trains a week cut back to just two a week in Flin Flon. Here in Emo there must be 20 a day running at speed through this little community. So should I change my ways and built a high speed main line with modern locomotives ?
Who is new, and who is back?
I am seeing a lot of folks who are "back" at this hobby after several decades, and a lot of folks new to this hobby as well, so I'm curious as to how many people here ARE new to the hobby? How many people were in this hobby before, but are now back?
On an unrelated note: How did you folks hear about Model Railroad Hobbyist?
Selling a layout
Has anyone ever tried to sell a layout (not 4X8) but 400+ SF for others to move? If so how much success? I know Paul Dolkas tore down and sold at least portions of his old B&M layout. Paul I I believe he dismantled a reasonable size section to sell,which the buyer only had to truck away. I am talking about a "Do it yourself" removal.
My SDL39's are no longer shelf Queens:
I apologize for the long absence. I have been building my bucket layout for nearly two years now. The video today is the end results of the second professional decoder install. To keep the story short the first one did not go well. A "six week turn around turned into nearly two years of "I mailed them Monday they should be there Friday."
A quick project.
I had a few hours spare today so I decided to make a wheelbarrow to add to the shanty scene.
It's a 3 part plastic Preiser model and went together easily. I started by painting it black, then a dark brown colour. Once dry I stippled on some burnt sienna artist acrylic. I let this dry for about an hour then gave it an all over thin coat of brown wash I also added a black wash to the bucket base.. Again let it dry and stipple a few random spots of the burnt sienna.
A nice little project that dose not take long but adds some interest to a scene.
Shanty work in progress.
I've done a bit more work on the shanty for my yard. I added the steps, lights, coal bin and some loose bits. It still needs a lot of extra tufts bushes etc added but I only have the one size tufts right now. I will also add some spilt coal around the base of the bin.
Figures for the layout.
I've started to paint up some figures for the layout. I sorted out some that looked like railroad workers and painted them up.
These guys should add a bit of character to the layout when finished.
My small layout
My layout is small; that is, it's 10ft x 12ft around the wall. The pictures that I post here probably are misleading in that it looks more interesting than it is. By that I mean if you were to visit my layout it would take all but 10 minutes to see it and then - well - there's not much else to see.
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