I see the entire course. Not just the fairway. I get the visit the birds in the trees.
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I don’t get it. Model RR Season is always open at my house. Is there more to life?[(-D]
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I actually played golf one time in my life. I was in Mobile, and a friend asked me to come along and play a round.
It had to be beginners luck as on a par 72 course, I shot a 68! Didn’t know what a handicap was so I didn’t use one. That was 40 years ago, and I haven’t picked up a club since.
I figured that if I ever played another round, I would get hooked trying to equal or beat that 68, and become the grumpiest a**hole in our neighborhood out of frustration. I didn’t want to become that, so I kept modeling. I do so year round, although I do go fishing alot. Its easy to do being retired.
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Isn’t that the game where you whack a little white ball and then chase it down only to whack it again and chase it down again? Then you finally land on a well manicured circle of grass and whack the ball into a gopher’s hole? [swg]
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The student’s plight: My modeling season is during summer break (which is sadly coming to an end next Wednesday [sigh]) and a week or two of hardcore modeling during Christmas or spring break. Then maybe a good day’s work on a 3-day weekend. The rest of the year I spend tinkering with the DCC system when I have time and running the trains to keep things in good order.
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Season Modeler Here. Too busy taking care of the outside of the house and I have a boat.
Don’t like the cold so its better to stay in in the winter and do the best hobby in the world.
Derek
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Year round here…my Railroad…October 1974
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Wait a minute. Say what? You never played golf or held a club in your hand in your entire life. And you shot a 68? I don’t think so. Maybe you just played nine holes. [(-D]
Rich
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Gidday Sam, If television was my only form of information on the seasons in North America then I could almost be excused for thinking that there is the “Winter Blizzard Season, the Tornado Season, and the Fire Season”. Therefore as you’re all trapped inside surrounded by mountains of snow, I would think that winter would be an ideal time for modelling cos you can’t do much else. The rest of the year would be devoted to absorbing as much Vitamin D as possible while dodging tornadoes/ hurricanes and forest fires. [;)]
Of course I know that the above is NOT true, though too those of you affected by any of the above, my apologies, for you it is not a laughing matter.
Where I live in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand is a Cool temperate zone where the average temperature only varies from 64F in February to 46F in July, so as we have no winter as such compared to some places in the States, I can’t hibernate in the layout room, so am a year round modeler though I would get more done in winter.
Cheers, the Bear.
P.S. I am with Sheldon regarding golf.[:-^]
you can’t spell trouble without N scaler… wait yeah you can. [swg]
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I’m a skier. It’s the family sport. So, during the winter we spend many weekends in the north country, far from home. (I was going to say “far from the madding crowd,” but if you’ve been to a ski resort on a weekend, you’ll know that’s not the case.)
Anyway, I do most of my modeling after the snow melts, and before it flies again. I’m not a beach guy, and I swim like a rock, and I don’t like warm weather, so I’m home in the AC working on my layout in the summer.
Well, this rendition of the Bunter Ridge just started this past fall. I know my time is limited during the summer due to yard work, outside activities, etc. I decided to do the “heavy building” in the winter. To make a long story short, by springtime, I had most of the benchwork built (and a reached a good stopping point), built the helix in the peninsula of the railroad, the adjoining lower staging level “neck” to the helix, and got that wiring pretty much complete. That got me to a point where I could do more sub roadbed, finish the “visible” trackwork above the helix on the peninsula, and could start scenery work. My theory was I could then do what I had time and energy for during the spring and summer season.
That theory worked. I’ve gotten more done this off season, perhaps due to the fact it has rained a lot here. I am about 90% done building, decorating and weathering a kit that has been sitting around for years. I’m even nearly done painting and decorating the locomotive fleet, which was undecorated gray in April.
My goal for this next fall/winter is to build the staging level around the walls to the major city/return loop, and start the upper level in that same area, as well as a shelf branch from the peninsula. That will leave completing the upper level track work in that section, and continuing the scenery in the peninsula, clean up, and starting scenery in the newly build section and shelf for next spring/fall.
But, normally work is heavy from around October through March, plus or minus a month. That is pretty much what I plan around. If I were at a point where running was the primary activity, it would be heaviest in that period, but would probably get more attention in the spring and summer months than building. Putting construction on pause and coming back to it later is tougher than a running/operating.
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For me it was much better when I was unemployed… AKA: All the time!!! (Yippeee!!!)
Now it is anytime I may be calm, & calm down enough to focus…
Which is not very often!!!
I get the bug to model when it is a sunday evening, where my focus has to be a good rest before surviving a week of nasty work doing phone support…
My modelling has been suffering & mostly due to accellorated shortcuts & lack of consistency, since I have to try to make a model in shorter times & scatterbrained intervals…
I don’t like it & I may have to ‘check out’ of modelling altogether, to stop making bad models…
I may be quiet for a while…
Having worked outside,in all four season’s,all my life,for some reason,I enjoy doing a lot on the layout during the winter…Being retarded,AKA,retired,for the past 11yrs,do not have to answer to anyone…I think the winter thing,probably makes me feel good that I don’t have to be out in it…
Too Bad I just started reading this thread,for I would have asked.Richotrain,if he could look in his Golf bag and come up with a pencil soldering iron,LOL…
Cheers,
Frank
When ever I like, but I have found that sweat & models are a challenge
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I was actually thinking about posting this same question - but I was at the cottage with no internet connection. Yep - my trains are active in the late fall, winter and early spring months, Then once the snow is gone, so am I to the cottage for a well deserved time in northern Michigan,
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Living in a cold climate, I like to do any work that requires fresh air - like spray painting, gluing, etc. - in the months where it’s not snowing and the windows can be open. Of course this year it snowed in May!! So actually I’m pretty busy in the spring, summer and fall. My busy time at work (working with taxes) is January thru April, so usually I try not to have any major projects going on then, so I can just run the layout to relax. I might do some small projects like painting figures, and pick up some good books on rail history.
My layout is based in early Fall but I enjoy the hobby year round.
Year-round for me.
I have too much that I want to do in this hobby to suspend working at it just because the calendar gets to a certain point every year.
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I tend to be all over the map here with mine…depends on what sort of moisture is falling from the heavens here…
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