Hello. I am embrassed at my lack of knowledge of this art form. I was full of ideas,hopes,dreams. I thought I had it sorted as to who,waht,when,how,why but alas back to square 1. But full of respect for the people out there willing to help the idots like myself with the parting of thier knowlegde and wisdom time and effort to reply to these forums. Once again thank you very much
cheers womblenz
You’re not an idiot. You may be green, but not an idiot.
We were all beginners at some point.
P.S. - It’s embarrassing how many times I’ve started over![:I]
Hi WombleNZ,
Is that Womble as in Wimbledon? I loved that show as a kid!
You will very likely end up with a better layout for the experience. I am not sure why you find yourself back at square one, but I assume that you are there because you identified issues with the direction you had been heading. Anyway, false starts can be an excellent part of the planning process that results in more success later. Are you struggling with something in particular now?
No your probably embarrassed about coming from Woodville. Just kidding I’m from Wairoa. I too am really just getting into this now. This is a great site.
“Wombles of Wimbeldon Common are we , over ground, under ground wombeling free. Making use of the things that we find, everyday things people leeeave behind, da da da da da dah.”
It went something like that but I was only about 4 when it was on telly. Yeah the Wombles and Wurzel Gummage. Ah those were the days.
You will find that this hobby is a lot of trial and error. It’s good to learn as much as you can about a project before you tackle it but you inevitably are going to make mistakes as you go and that is how you really learn. The great thing about this hobby is that there are no rules against taking a Mulligan.
Find a copy of the last article written by tony Koester on the allegheny Midland. he handlaid track, made his own turnouts from scratch and models at a level most of would love to aspire to. However his coal mine branch needed to have the track redone because the operators found the layout prohibitive for the work to be done. By the way, real railroads have the same problem as things change with time. Just part of the hobby.
Don’t loose those hopes dreams ideas that’s what keeps me going, sure they sometimes turn out different when the jobs done but I’m learning, if your not learning your dead!!
Oh Welcome from another Kiwi.
Ken.
Okay, you have grovelled enough, and may stand. [:D][(-D]
Seriously, I can think of no real gods here, well except for…oh, never mind. I suppose there are a few. But, I am not one of them.
We’ll help in any way we can, womblenz. This forum is replete with well-meaning, experienced, and savvy modelers…again, and alas, I speak of others…
Join us more often!!
-Crandell
Can one truly be an idiot if they were smart enough to figure out things weren’t going well and started over?
I doubt very much there is anyone here that can honestly say they never made a mistake in this hobby. The key is to look at it as a learning experience and move on!
yes indeed railroading is a learning experience.certainly their are no stupid questions imo.after five layouts i still make mistakes and i keep on correcting them.but im having fun along the way.terry…
Thanks people I have not lost hope or dreams but have learnt that I was all**** about face with my apporach. We haved stopped to rethink the whole process. Still know roughly what I want just how it all comes together is a different story
thanks guys you will hear from me a lot more yet as I battle with realatly and practicatly and dreams
see you later womblenz
we have rules for Mulligan.
indeed a lot of trials and errors. i thought i have done my trackwork using sectional tracks until i experienced a lot of derailments. i have ripped the sectional tracks and are replacing them with flextrack with 22" minimum radius, with feeders and soldering joints. these i am doing after reading various posts in this forum. a long way to go…
thanks to you guys.
Would that perfection could be achieved with every first attempt. Think of how much money could be saved by eliminating erasers from pencils and ‘delete’ keys from computer keyboards.
Over the years I have changed scale several times, changed gauge within scale, chased my interests up a few blind alleys and even changed the nationality of my primary prototype interest. All but a tiny handful of long-time model railroaders have done some or all of the above.
There is only one stupid question - the one that should have been asked, but wasn’t.
you are not an idiot…a newbie maybe, but not an idiot…what you need to do is just do it!..I wish i had a nickel for everytime i made a mistake in this hobby…i’d be rich…you are going to have to just buckle down and do it…if it doesn’t come out right then do it again (but in a different way)…to me the toughest thing was learning track radius (where and what kind to support the manegerie of locmotives and rolling stock out there) , wiring, and the hardest of all is scenery…scenery will take years to get good at it…the main thing is that you persevere …try, try, try, until you get it right…read up on a lot of things and keep to it…you’re going to learn some real neat tricks and some of them you’ll get by trial and error…it took me about 15 years to get good at scenery, and i’ve been doing this for almost 30 years…don’t give up so easily…practice makes perfect…chuck