Hi all
I was working last night on my layout, not really paying attention to the overall picture, just the matter at hand when I realized that I was cutting, fitting and laying my last piece of track. For a while, at least.
I stopped what I was doing and took a look around the layout. I had to take a seat and just marvel at what this meant. "Now I can start my next step: Scenery!"
I was wowed. I came in and told the wife about it and she gave the Blank Stare of Oh, That's Nice Dear. I tried to explain it. That I had been working 5 to 10 hours a week since July on this and that it meant I could now start doing serious scenery.
She didn't get it.
I then gave her a run down of what I had accomplished thus far:
Built benchwork, which was no easy task since I had no power tools when I started.
Found a layout that I wanted to base it on, then tweaked it here and there to suit my garage.
Wired the thing for DCC, even though I am now only running DC. Leave myself some growing room. Xmas is comin', or so the TV tells me.
Hung a masonite sky around 1/2 the layout.
Cut and laid 88 feet of track on foam roadbed.
Then she asked about my abnormal trees that I had been building while watching football on Sunday. I told her those count as scenery, but only in the cursory sense, since they are along way from being planted... you know, Prep Work.
So while I think of last night as a Red Letter Day, my wife says she will join in the happiness when the layout is finished. Which prompted my inner voice to ask, "is a layout ever truly FINISHED?"
Not that I'm telling her that! :thumb:
George
I was working last night on my layout, not really paying attention to the overall picture, just the matter at hand when I realized that I was cutting, fitting and laying my last piece of track. For a while, at least.
I stopped what I was doing and took a look around the layout. I had to take a seat and just marvel at what this meant. "Now I can start my next step: Scenery!"
I was wowed. I came in and told the wife about it and she gave the Blank Stare of Oh, That's Nice Dear. I tried to explain it. That I had been working 5 to 10 hours a week since July on this and that it meant I could now start doing serious scenery.
She didn't get it.
I then gave her a run down of what I had accomplished thus far:
Built benchwork, which was no easy task since I had no power tools when I started.
Found a layout that I wanted to base it on, then tweaked it here and there to suit my garage.
Wired the thing for DCC, even though I am now only running DC. Leave myself some growing room. Xmas is comin', or so the TV tells me.
Hung a masonite sky around 1/2 the layout.
Cut and laid 88 feet of track on foam roadbed.
Then she asked about my abnormal trees that I had been building while watching football on Sunday. I told her those count as scenery, but only in the cursory sense, since they are along way from being planted... you know, Prep Work.
So while I think of last night as a Red Letter Day, my wife says she will join in the happiness when the layout is finished. Which prompted my inner voice to ask, "is a layout ever truly FINISHED?"
Not that I'm telling her that! :thumb:
George