When I emerge from the basement nowadays, my wife asks me what I’ve been woking on. Different evenings bring different answers, until she recently asked, “Just how many projects are you working on?” Hmm, that’s a good question, I thought. So I took stock. There’s
a box car and a somewhat whimsically decaled reefer that both started out undecorated, plus
the enginehouse kitbashed from remnants of several old Revell kits that’ve been in the scrap box for years and years, along with a locomotive painting project, plus
five undecorated gons in three boxes that need to be made un-undecorated, plus
this DPM kit that needs some dullcoat, window treatmens, assembly, signage, and interiors, plus
more trees to plant. And, oh by the way,
the ultimate unfinished project. That’s not so bad a list, is it?
Jim you are a head of me, or should I say behind on projects. Have around 30 rolling stock to repair or up grade, make the mountain foot higher, make few hundred more tress, add lights to mine and install roof, 8 engines to up grade with decoders, make a dirt drive to Mill, crossing for the road, make passenger train station spur, install auto reverser, add more grass and I could keep on going.
But I am sure you will find more projects after you are done with the ones listed.
I’m an old HO nut, building his final layout (I’m 65). I have a huge amount of “to do” projects, but none that I recall “in process and holding”. I suspect most all avid MRs have their share too!
One of my first kit bashes was the engine house you show. I doubled two of them end to end, and fabricated the roof and walls to match. I quickly found that I needed structural support on the walls/roof, and used some plastic Plaststruct beams and glued in place. This was all done in the early '90s, and the structure is “like new” today - awaiting placement on the new layout.
I only have three unfinished projects. A building I’m working on, trees I’m making, and the layout itself. I don’t usually start another project before I finish the one Im working on.
