Hello to all,
I've been off the forum for about three weeks now I guess and kind of miss the place.
My hard drive crashed but fortunately my tech neighbor was able to pull most of the important files off of it, thank God.
Then I had roof repair to do and it wasn't done any too soon either as the area here suffered an extreme storm. The first night, a week ago from today Friday it came down in buckets basically all night till about 10:30 on Sat. I still had three new leaks and took advantage of the let up to once get up on the roof and do more shake/tar paper repair. I didn't measure the National Weather Service approved Rain gauge but it looked like it had at least 3 to 4" in it. I didn't get the repairs done any too soon as it began to rain which turned to pea size hail and then snow then more hail and more snow. Neither was very much but cold for sure.
On Sunday I had a chance to measure the rain gauge and we had 5.19" at that point and shortly thereafter it rained & hailed again and on Monday I found we had another .50" 's so things were a tad wet to say the least.
On Friday during the heaviest rain one of the leaks was right over the unfinished ends of the layout and dripping down right through a round ceiling light fixture where I had a plug in connector with a couple of other florescent light plugged in. It was literally running down the back of the socket. I'm surprised it didn't trip the circut breaker?
On a brighter note, I picked up a new source, ScaleFigures.com, for figures and animals in HO and larger sizes. Most of the cast metal figures are from the late 1880's to about the 1920's and have very good detail as they are the same as the old Lylter & Lylter figures which I have quite a few to compare with.
My price, for most of his, 'HO UnPainted Figures' are $.75ea which will go up to about $1.25 sug.list after a short bit. So if your interested get in touch with a list of what you want?
Hope you all have a good night and weend