Exploring the World of Model Railroading
Spent the Saturday doing errands, among which was purchasing 5 sheets of plywood for the staging deck. In the late afternoon/early evening and I started feeling guilty for not accomplishing much today, so in a moment of inspiration, I hashed out the remaining metal benchwork on the staging deck. That area has been sitting empty without benchwork for almost a year, but no more…
God knows why I waited till the last moment to order the track and turnouts…believe it or not though, I made changes to my staging plan hours before ordering the parts. In a moment of panic I realized that I could use large turnouts instead of medium, duh. So, I replaced all medium turnouts and then placed the order. In retrospect I’m glad I did this, except that I shouldn’t have waited till the last moment to do it.
It feels like nothing much was really done – wall and a half built, yet it took what it seems a long time to do. Everything takes a long time to do and, there are so many small things that need done, taking time away, sigh.
This is the part I hate doing the most when it comes to wall construction. It’s all the dust from drywall and sanding, yuck. And the whole process turns into an ordeal that takes days to complete, because you have to wait a day for the mud to dry before continuing, else it all turns into a mess.
Finally got to put the drywalls up – life got in the way and took my time from railroading, meh.
I thought to take an opportunity of a mild (~10C) and dry weather this afternoon, so after a visit to a local home despot for wood and drywall, I went ahead to frame the diagonal wall on the left side of the layout room. This was an almost 7 ft. opening that had to be closed first if I was to begin (finish?) any benchwork construction in that area.
I sent my helix segment design to be laser cut this past Monday, and the local company made them pretty quick, having completed the job in only couple of days, awesome! And what a beauty they are, I am so happy that I did not go with my own materials (which were not marine grade), or god forbid cut the segments myself with a jigsaw.
