Anybody out there in the model railroading hobby got any funny stories? If so lets talk awhile
Nope don’t make no misteaks! Thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong…
[:D]
Somebody obviously didn’t pass english in high school. I’m a true Texas hick and even I have somewhat proper grammer.
Um, I thin you meen propar “grammar.” Get with the programme (Cdn sp.). [:D]
Masters degree in fine arts with a minor in English! [;)]
Oh good gosh… Where to begin. I can sum up almost all my mistakes in one category: Failing to listen to good advice and doing stupid things that are known mistakes… e.g. putting S-curves into a track plan with no straight in the middle. Failing to add easements to curves. Failing to provide sufficient access to hidden track. Rushing to get trains running at the expense of prior tasks (backdrop, room finishing, etc)…
Now older (definitely) and wiser (maybe), I’m hoping to avoid a lot of those on layout #4… But it’s a shame I insisted on making my “own” mistakes instead listening to the old hands and learning from theirs…
My 6’X11’ HO layout’s benchwork…The shakiness really fits the southern California theme, meaning I can replicate an earthquake with one erronous bump, knocking equipment off the rails on to their sides[xx(]
…a misteak?..
Is that when the ribeye misses the grating on the bar-B-que pit and falls into the coals?..[?]
I had 14 Athearn Genesis 60’ box cars that I wanted to add Kadee couplers to. I figured I would do them all at once at the kitchen table and then take them down to the layout to check them out. I got them all done but put the stupid couplers on upside down, lol. I don’t know what I was thinking. [:O]
Dave,
Funny how the couplers looked right when they were sitting on the table. It never occurred to me that the cars were upside down during the installation!
At least I haven’t done that since, lol.
I figure layouts almost aways have model scrapyards for a reason…at least mine does.
Also, there are reasons I work on a low workbench, with a gutter in front (for those times when tweezers and detail parts both forget the concept of friction), and blocks with holes for holding paint and liquid cement jars…
If you learn something from it…its not a mistake…Cox 47
I just pulled one the other night…got a scene done on a sheet of plywood containing a small neighborhood of houses…got all the lights inside the buildings wired and drilled a hole in the layout so the wires could get wired to the power source to light the buildings from under the layout…so here i go…pouring plaster, adding texture, adding the woodland scenics grass and trees for the lawns, painting the roads and driveways, ect…the scene looked almost perfect…so now i go to wire the lights to the building and wouldn’t you know it,…one of the wires didn’t go all the way thru…so here we go…back to square one…the scene was embedded in the plaster and wasn’t going anywhere…just hate it when that happens…nothing like doing the same wiring job…twice…chuck
Now-a-days we don’t have mistakes or failures. It’s called deferred success. [:p]
Bill
Deferred, as in, “Well, it worked deferred time it tried it”?
As my father used to say, “When all else fails, read the directions!”
Nope, I don’t not never use no double negatives! [:p]
We had the same dad? lol.
The older I get, the smarter my dad was!
[:D] Sooooooooooooooooo true. Course, that means I’m getting smarter than my three daughters. Kewl.