Heyy guys i have realized when working around the mayout i can never have enough paper cups and elmers glue! im useless without them lol how about you? what do you NEED around the layout?
Keith
I always seem to run out of wire at the worst possible moment. Usually by just a couple of inches.
I can never have enough paint. I always need just a little bit more, and then need to either buy a new bottle of some color I will never use again, or try and mix the remaining bits of other bottles… thus ending up with the wrong shade and more empty bottles! A never ending cycle!
When having a paint session, paper towels and q-tips. One or the other is always upstairs when I am painting downstairs.
COME ON GUYS!! Someone’s slipping on the job because noone has mentioned…
Time
Space
And
Most Importantly
MONEY!!!
(And a few more trains can’t hurt, either).
Brad
You can never have enough:
- Room to house that dream layout!
- Space to fit 54" radius curves.
- Passing siding lengths to accomodate #12 turnouts.
Dullcote
Brushes
Rust-colored paint
Paper towels
Q-Tips
At least at the moment I can’t have enough knuckle couplers…man I wish I hadn’t been such a stupid little kid and would’ve just used knuckles from the start!
Well, it’s like this…if I have enough staging space, I don’t have enough trains. If I have enough trains, I seem to run out of staging space.
There is no cure for me but I can help some others here.
Csxtrains23, Elmer’s comes in gallon jugs in the contractor section of HI stores. They last a good long time. Save soup cans and mushroom jars, six the paper cups and spend the extra money on trains.
DrummingTrainfan, I bought a bag-o-Kadees, a bunch of BB kits, and make liberal use of converter cars.
Uspscsx, the best brushes I own came from the crafts department at Wal-mart. The red handled ones blow the doors off the green handled ones. Buy in bulk, they’re cheap. While you’re there, pick up a pair or two of Wilson swaetpants and Fruit of the Loom pocketed T-shirts, $5 a pop. Comfy, easy to work in, you’ll never need another paper towel. Jewler’s screwdriver and a bit of T-shirt fit in tighter spaces than a Q-tip, and leave less fiber behind.
Bob grech, there’s no cure for you either. Same goes for twcenterprises.
Adelie, see the reply to Uspscsx.
Scoobster28, if you just need a bit more paint, add thinner. If it’s still not enough, make a mudslide, rockfall, sprouting plants, or a shed. Still not enough, mix a big new batch, use it for variation on already painted areas, then your fill in will match the rest.
Simon1966, extra wire can be found in lamps or other old appliances, kids toys(especially noisy ones), old vehicles, lawnmowers, etc. Second to last, wiring out of the walls, dead last (unless you live alone) kitchen appliances. The trains must go through.
Trees. How many trees can a forrest need?
And steam engines. There are some who have hundreds and I understand.
And ground foam. How did we ever do it without it?
I agree with ARTHILL
I too have way too meny locomotives
and still looking for more
K
It is very simple. One can never have enough…
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Beer … sometimes rootbeer.
You can’t have too many F units.
money…
Let’s see, between money, beer and Kadee replacements for all my old horn-hooks, that about covers it.
locos, the moment i have 9 locos to 27 servicable freight cars
Survey says,…
MONEY
The no.1 answer!
Sorry, family fued flashback!
Patience…to complete those tedious tasks on the layout
Will Power…to complete those tedious tasks on the layout
Patience and Will Power lose out sometimes to just wanting to run trains.
Rick