I’ve swiped this quote from the “new member with a question” thread…
“Also, listen to your wife. Any trains running around the ceiling of your kitchen are going to get REALLY dirty with grease, oil and that brown, dusty gunk (not to mention cobwebs!). Keeping your track clean could become a nightmare. Reserve the kitchen for cooking and do the modeling elsewhere. Besides, you wouldn’t want to spoil a great ragout by dropping a flatcar of pulpwood into it, would you”?
MY Question is…
Has anyone tried telling their wife/partner that the change of colour in the kitchen is “weathering” and that, like their freight cars the detail enhances the value?
I’m just thinking that this might mean more time for modelling and less time decorating…
After all, isn’t it always the case that about an hour after you start into any decorating job the other half comes in and complains about the mess you’re making?
Luckily my efforts in “decorating” involve the heavy lifting to move furniture. Wifey doesn’t like my techniques or suggestions, but more particularly my suggestions. Take more of an interest in her decorating ideas, get “involved”, you’ll be set to the basement soon enough!
Will … took two wives to perfect the technique!
Overdurff, Boy are you a glutton for punishment![:D] I learned after the first one!! With no wife, you can decorate( or undecorate) anyway you want to. With a wife, you can’t have trains in the living room, in the bedroom, the kitchen, the garage, the yard, or all the previous at the same time[:D] No wife, leaves more room and money for trains!!![:P][:P][(-D][yeah]
Well, I’ve learned that NO MATTER what I do, it will not be correct. So I will help around the house, mow the yard, paint, do woodwork whatever and the first time she comes up and starts to critize or complain about the job I’m doing, I hand her the paint brush, or the screwdriver, or the handle to the mower and leave the area. Works every time…[#dots]
Gentlemen,let me add my two cents worth. A fellow once told me this. { Anything that bleeds for seven days and doesn’t die is EVIL. Let the truth be know,I think it’s true,my wifes a redhead and she is evil LOL. But I wouldn’t trade her for the world.
When my wife was alive, she used to have a habit of putting tools away while I was working with them. I’d be half in the cupboard under the sink and gropping around on the floor with one hand trying to find the pipe wrench I had just set down. She would see what I was doing (or hear me swear) and would say, “what are you doing”? I would say I was looking for the pipe wrench. She would say, “was that that red handled thingy? I just put that away. I thought you were finished with it.” Major “words” would follow and I would get the “Cold Shoulder” for a few days. Actually, I really miss those days…
Thanks for quoting me (and correctly, too!). The original question concerned putting trains up in the kitchen so he could watch the trains run while he was cooking. I encouraged him not to ruin BOTH his trains AND his food by doing that.
Having clarified my comment, I congratulate you on a wonderful idea: Indoor Weathering! No more scraping and painting! No more refinishing! Dirty carpets? No, just well weathered!
Probably won’t catch on, though. At least not here! My wife cleans ashtrays and empties wastebasket about 6 times a day. She has even emptied a wastebasket that had ONE used cottonball in it! I’m AFRAID to weather my trains!
Hey Howmus! I know that feeling. It could drive you nuts not being driven nuts!
Darrel… Think yourself lucky Oxted Signalbox (tower) had 3 resident signalmen who would each have trebled that output every shift… they’d even taken the steel screws out of the outhouse door and replaced them with brass… which they drew out a little each week in order to poli***hem without getting the Day and Martin polish on the paintwork.
This really happened! They were nuts!
Edenbridge Box on the other hand had been worked (Armstong frame) with a lever cloth for 35 years solid that we knew of. Everything had a beautifal patina. (Polish makes a shine like chrome).
Which makes me think… anyone know how to get metal polish out of Newbuck… I knocked the can over.
Then again… if anyone is involved with restoring an Armstrong frame one trick to polihe steel without polish is to make a pad like chain mail (as in armour) on leather. The round steel links work wonders, the leather protects the hands.
I have a vague memory that these were banned… maybe they got metal dust into the electrics… but if you were cleaning the levers in a restoration they would give a better finihan a machine polish.