I only have a couple of projects on my plate (one being to start a layout!), but all are in hiatus as I have little time away from work and my woman (time well spent though) to do any model railroading.
OHH ME! PICK ME!
Dad;s the klit half of the team, but I;m doing a lot of painting. I have a slight que of TF and train stuff to get painted. Still to go are a pair of Proto BL2s, plus one that I need to strip paint off the windows and detail parts (Liquid mask sounded good in theory, but now I can;t figure out hiow to get it off).
There’s a Ringling Circus train, that needs me to make decals for it, buy two dozen coaches, and 8 more 89 flats.
Also a tool car for the T-1 Freedom train, maybe for the Chessie Steam Special, plus the rest of the 76 Freedom Train that Lionel neglected, and the 49 freedom train no one’s done yet in HO. Maybe the Chessie passenger special cars, if I can find the T-1 and or Bachmann/Proto/Genisis/someone comes out with 614.
I have a boatload of cars to get metal wheels under, maybe change couplers to Kadee and get to proper height,
add more cars into the Spectrum George Washington,
put sound into the george Washington/Daylight/others I;m forgetting,
find and redecal a Berkshire and coaches for the Polar Express in time for Christmas, (cars are already painted, just need words)
I wanna do a GM Train of Tommarrow,
fill out the Rivarossi American Orient Express,
a firetrain I need to get out of my head, (pumps and cabs on each end, followed by a pair of 16,000 gallon water tank cars, with a B unit sandwiched in controlled by the ends. Extra coaches tank cars auto carriers pulled along behind to a safe point close to the fire)
modify an F set ABBA into the “Snorkel Train” (Flood rescue with snowplows fore an aft to push into water and remove as many cars from the muck and get them moving again)
and populate/interior the passenger car fleets I have. There;s more, but I can’t remeber it, so it must not be a priority.
I read somewhere than when you finish all the stuff on your “to do” list, you die. I just keep adding to mine, so I’ll live forever…[:)]
Lee
Leonardo Da Vinci always worked on many projects at once… just think of us as renaisance people![^]
Me too !!! [8]
It depends on how you define “too many.” If you’re under a deadline to get certain things done, then it is possible to have too many, but it’s also possible you’ve lost the most basic concept of a “hobby.” It’s supposed to be an escape from the pressure and deadlines of the real world.
To answer your question, no I don’t have “too many.” I do have a lot going at this time, but they’ll get done when they get done.
Thats the beauty of this hobby, can have many projects. If you get tired of ballasting, go build a structure, or work on electrical, or switch machines. Keeping many projects going keeps you from burning out on doing one thing. Now if can can just decide if I’m going to ballast or start building that mountain tonight, or maybe I better assemble that old MDC rotary plow, or that 3-n-1 ore car kit…or maybe…
Ah, the Winchester theory of layout design.
(How many people know what I am talking about? Just answer yes and let the others wonder.)
yes and let the others wonder
I have to rebuild my N fleet, because it has turned into a junkyard, while the HO fleet gets all the funding…
funny though, just like the government
Do I?!
I’m taking on no more until I’ve finished chewing this large portion of food.
No, and let the others wonder including me…
I have the same problem. I always have a new idea, and go ahead and start a new one. Also, if I have any problems with my project (which there always is, because what’s the fun in having everything perfect?), I tend to put that project back on the shelf because it requires something I don’t have, I need more skills to make it look what I am modeling etc…
Yes and letting the others wonder
You mean you can be a model railroader and NOT have too many projects out your plate?!?!? Just recently I was trying to prioritize the dozen or so partially built kits and kitbashes taking up space on the workbench and shelves (that does not count the PILES of kits not even touched), and making plans for the next expantion of the layout to bronze spike level (after which I can start the sceenery), when I opened a couple moving boxes and found a half dozen or more partial projects I had started close to 30 years ago.
I’m building a new layout, so I have several MR projects going at once. But, they’ve bout all taken a backseat now for the outside chores, some remodeling and grandkids ball games, till next winter.
Inch
Uh…
My layout is one project [:)], expansion is one project[:)], all those boxes of parts on the table over there are parts of projects previously mentioned.
Taking it one day at a time…
Then there is painting and insulating the garage that will be housing projects previously mentioned, landscaping around garage that will be housing projects previously mentioned, and …
Winchester – Yes.
Heh. Winchester… You want that stairway to go where? Oh, yes…
Lee
I have too many non-Model Railroad projects, can’t find enough time for the layout.[:(]
Enjoy
Paul
From all the varied replies that this thread has received,it appears that the modeler described above is a rare bird indeed. Is there no one who will admit to being a little bit OCD when it comes to your modeling?
OCD, how about ADD or ADHD? Hey look at that neat building over there! Is it time to eat yet? I think I’ll take a nap! What was I talking about?[:)]