I need CA glue
K
Gotta stick to that list!(sorry, I took a punny pill this morning)
Your use of too rather than to seems to convey either an urgency or futility to the DO list. My layouts(HO over O and both over storage)need to get a little momentum more than anything else. Too much to do can scare off the start of any project.
Condensing the full notebook, it looks like:
- Build the layout (currently benchwork 40%, trackwork 20%, permanent electricals 7%, scenery 0%)
- Clean, lubricate and upgrade all my rolling stock, most of which has been boxed up since I moved to Sin City several years ago.
- Set up and operate to the prototype’s September, 1964 published timetable.
Of course, the actual CEPRI file is a couple of thousand lines long!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I have a wall full of model projects and including …BUILD DAT DERN LAYOUT!!!
I would fill these pages with things to do.
I need another beer. I just picked up more CA last week.
I’ve got one more subway station still without lights, the small Scollay Square station on a dead-end siding. I’ve got the lights, so there’s no excuse, but with all the little bulbs I’ve pushed my old train transformer to the limit, so I’ll have to put something else on line for my scenic illumination.
The stockyard is about half done. I need to add the ground cover, and put the same over the “scenic covers” for the Atlas switch machines in the neighborhood. I’ve got to go to market, to market, to buy a fat pig, or 10 or 20, or maybe some sheep.
Next I need to level out the yard and glue down and ballast all the yard tracks. I hate the thought of doing this, because I have to reach across a lot to get to the tracks in the middle of the layout.
And then it’s time to start on Moose Bay itself - the big hole in the layout that will be water…
Hmmm…
Get backdrop and install backdrop
Add hill, tunnel, and retaining walls
Complete town
Add grass
Ballast
Have fun running trains on a 4x8.
Oboy–
Vacuum the layout.
Clean track.
Dislodge spiders.
Send eviction notices to several mice.
Clean loco wheels.
Relay track on viaduct.
Re-solder some electrical connections.
Re-motor a couple of old brass locos.
Try and find room for some industrial spurs.
Build a staging yard.
Try and put a back-drop behind an already constructed mountain range.
Find a bigger, better stepladder.
Do all this before Christmas when my son and grandson arrive and expect the layout to be running PERFECTLY.
Tom [xx(]
1 Finish insulating walls & roof of shed
2 Gyprock ( drywall ) shed walls
3 Air Con for shed
4 Finish designing & start building the REAL layout and stop using my kids one to test trains & rollingstock
5 Install about a dozen sound decoders , fit kadees & metal wheelsets to about a hundred carriages, fix, sell or bin 3 Rivarossi steamers, build a bunch of 3 bay hopper & husky stack kits, fit weights to a bunch of containers, build a bunch of building kits, find time to build a 21 bay modern roundhouse, find time to build a roundhouse shay kit, find time…
6 Oh and I almost forgot, HAVE FUN !!!
It gets longer and longer everytime I sit down and try to check off things that are done. [%-)]
My “to do” list if written out would look like a phone book!! I’ve finished painting most of the walls in the basement, just have to seal a few cracks where the floor and walls join, “paint” the floor with waterseal, put up shelving for benchwork, build benchwork, buy track, lay track…I’m going to be working for a LONG time!! (But that’s what makes it fun.) [:D]
Five years worth.
For example:
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Install telephone poles on “finished” part of layout.
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Ballast sidings and spurs in the millstone quarry
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Start construction the bluestone quarry
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Install another dozen tortoises when funds permit
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Super detail scenery in a few places
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Modify track at two of the industries
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Design, build install block signals
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Build helix
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Extend fascia
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Plan city then main yard
etc etc etc
It’s a good thing that this stuff is so much fun~! [(-D]
Karl
1- Plan and execute Unitrack Purchases until complete.
2- Build benchwork after finalizing plan and confirming various elements.
3- Decide how to best “Operate” with Waybill, card system.
4- Give all engines a chance to run once a week.
5- Paint the track.
6- Finish the last of the hobby shop orders this year. (Make that TWO hobby shops worth)
6a- Wait for the orders to arrive. Some have been waited for 1 year or more.
7- Plan for Christmas Sales.
8- Plan for Cotton belt 819 Show in April of 08.
9- Acquire additional space via demo
10- Get off these forums and sit at the workbench and actually do something =)
I tired to uplod my list to the website to show everyone. Internet told me.
“ERROR:File Too large. Get real.”,
then my computer crashed.
Ah, seriously, I tried to do a list, but there is so much. I just go out and do what my mood strikes me to do. More fun that way and I leave the lists for work.
Now, I have a wish list…
1 - buy more locomotives
2 - buy more locomotives
3 - buy more locomotives
4 - buy more locomotives
5 - buy more locomotives
Would that be Vol. I or Vol. II?
Mine’s blank. It may not get anything accomplished, but I don’t have any trouble finishing the list, either.
Brad
My list is still growing, nevermind what is already on it. I have the benchwork 85% completed. Before I can start laying track, running trains and consider scenery, I have to finish the benchwork. To do this I need:
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To purchase 1 sheet of plywood cut to my specifications
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And purchase 2 pieces of Owens Corning foam insulation board.
After that I need to:
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Go buy 1 package of Atlas 24" radius curves
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Go buy a ton of cork roadbed sheets
Once I complete these tasks, then its off to the races laying track. I’ll probably have more things to add to my list once I begin…
I’m with Brad. If there is no list it always gets done.
Mine is really long seeing as I just started this hobby at age 30 last year. My list right now while I sell my current house is to add Dcc to my engines and weahter the rolling stock. I have thoughts about at least painting and weathering building walls for assembly later but I already have enought to do converting old riv rs-2 to dcc.
Which volume? [8D]
1} Live long enough to complete my list
2} see # 1