The slogan returns in the June issue. Albeit on the editor’s page, but at least it’s back in the magazine. Sometimes we forget this is a hobby and is supposed to be enjoyable.
Thanks Neil
Enjoy
Paul
Yes it is!
So please forgive me when I laugh, while others may grit their teeth and boil away over the same model railroading issues. Around a layout or on the forum, excellence can be still be achieved with a lighthearted approach.
Brent
“If you’re having fun, you’re doing it the right way.”
Paul,
Truer words can not be spoken, in the grand scheme of things does it all really matter?
I resolved myself to the fact a long time a go that Model Railroader is never coming down my basement stairs passing Allen Keller on the way up from just finishing a video shoot of my layout so I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing. Having fun and making up new cuss words when things go wrong. I just hate it when the wife keep saying this is supposed to be fun right.
Agreed. I like it when someone can achieve much without some big heavy handed sermon—[:)]
I guess it’s better than, ‘model railroading is…expensive!’[:D]
Every time I cut my fingers or burn them, soldering feeder wires to rail joiners, I keep on telling me
“Model railroading is fun” [swg]
I am in this hobby for just that reason - to have fun, and nothing else. I do not need anybody else´s recognition of my work, or any award, but it makes me happy, when some one says “well done” to me.
If I wasn’t having fun I surely wouldn’t be spending the money on it that I do. It can also be educational and relaxing.
In my best Jerry clower voice:
What???!!
You all mean to tell me this here hobby is suppose to be fun?
[(-D][(-D]
I tell myself that every time I drag my modules through a driving snowstorm at 5 am for a show. [banghead]
Pete
It IS fun. Last night (after having to replace another turnout, I cleaned the track on my upper level. It was nice running a short coal drag around the upper level and down the transition track to the lower level. I bought a minicam last year and it’s really cool seeing the layout from the train’s perspective. The only bummer is having to download it from the VCR. I didn’t think far enough ahead to have gotten a receiver with USB so I could have recorded it directly to the computer. Anyway, it’s about time for my “Golden Spike” ceremony. I just have to clean the clutter from the other side of the basement, er, train room.
And if we could somehow make it Tax Deductible, it would just about be perfect. [(-D]
Blue Flamer
My sentiments precisely. I’ve been expanding my layout, which means benchwork, wiring, foam cutting and testing as each part goes into place. After a hard day of workin’ on the railroad, I’m at peace with the world.
Soo true. Just had a short session with my 14 year old. It makes it all worth while. I wonder if the “Advanced Modelers” have as much fun.
I’m having lots and lots of fun. This hobby is soo cool, the fun never ends!!
Michael
It’s NOT! Ruh roh!
Fun and excellence walk sweetly hand-in-hand in my life.
In rr forums and rr clubs the trouble starts when someone “important” starts comparing one layout with another and inevitably decides your idea of excellence isn’t as good as his, that my six-year-old’s popsicle-stick crossing shack (elevated, no less!!) that he built for a kindergarten class project doesn’t belong on a “serious” layout.
If I ever get so GOOD that my nine-year-old daughter can’t weather some tracks purple, I’ll quit and take up golf with adults who think they’re one step away from the PGA tour.
p.s…don’t anybody tell the tax people I’ve been treating my purchases as a tax deduction!
It can be, sort of, a little bit, in the right circumstances. There was an MR article years ago about the guy building a new house (with specially tall basement for the layout) and part of the building contract called for initial benchwork to be constructed and installed by the builders and attached to the walls. Thus the mortgage loan for the entire house construction included funds for that portion of the layout – and the interest on that mortgage loan was fully deductible! Best of all given the way these things are priced the add on for building the initial benchwork was essentially invisible, just blended into the overall charge, just as if it was built in shelving.
Dave Nelson