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Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Well howdy there internet peeps and those with clean model rooms!
Its Troy again...
Fighting Sciatica again (blah!)... now that the pulled back muscle is healing up, I can get after the sciatica issue. Today, the left thigh is aching... So I've been on the teeter table 4 times, and a 5th will happen before bed. Been on the walking machine to nowhere twice and I'm over 10K steps between that and running up and down stairs for laundry today. Looks like 25 flights climbed so far.
Because standing was a lot less painful than sitting today, I worked on the train table. I should probably ramp up a new thread since this seems like I've got the motivation to get track laid and power applied this go round. My old thread had two failed layouts that never saw a train run before I started this current iteration.
Here's some pics of what's going on:
above: The layout - to left, where the Dr. P Zero Sugar is, will be the yard. Today I glued down the 2nd layer of famm to give me 2" all the way around the main level.
above: The Gorge. To the Right will be my SoCal wing, to the left will be a Northern scene with the town of Eerie Falls. The tunnel heading toward the Ginger Ale case will be the loop around the Yard on the other side of the divider. The bridge in the gorge is 3D printed from a free file. It's a bit rough. The designer needed to break it into parts. I'm not skilled enough with supports to give it what it needed (yet). I'll probably print it again if I use it. Though I could do some sanding to clean up the loose filament, and add some weathering.
Above: the layout with the weights removed from the yard side foam: I've started "staging" visual clues on the Eerie Falls side, trying to get a mental picture of what I can do over there. The "tunnel" is a misprinted section of the Titanic (on the upper deck, center)... I'm debating on having the town of EF be raised, and served by a spur line off the main. BELOW: The main would curve through a short tunnel under one end of the town (probably where the falls are... with lots of eerie things. That region will probably wrap around the background with more eerie stuff, and maybe a second falls... cause the town is "Eerie Falls" plural. So you gotta have two falls for the eerie to hang out around.
PS: Ignore the WS foram riser on that two level hunk of hill.... that was salvaged from the old layout iteration, and I was carving that piece for gaming terain. Right now it's just a visualization clue. The hills won't look anything like that... maybe.
Above, the town of St. Maurice in SoCal... this town is a slimmed down version of Santa Monica and home to the Pixie Twist series where Willie, Smudge et al got to talk trains with a mini-dragon in book 5. More 3D printed buildings there to see how N-scale would look on the layout. The purple dots show where the line to get to the helix will run. This city will have a harbor feature where the cut out section of foam is. Size to be determined later. Off camera go the right, the white risers climb up, and loop around, becoming the risers on the far right and background. Inside that loop will be the mining operation for the magical rock which powers the Infernal Combustion Engines in use by the magical inhabitants of my layout. If you are wondering why the need magical rocks to power their cars, go back and read the engine bit again.
I found an interesting channel on YouTube, with an Nscale layout. I'm amazed at the detail he's been able to put into such a small layout. Seeing his work has pretty much locked in my lean toward sticking with Nscale - unless the eye doc gives me bad news.
Its Troy again...
Fighting Sciatica again (blah!)... now that the pulled back muscle is healing up, I can get after the sciatica issue. Today, the left thigh is aching... So I've been on the teeter table 4 times, and a 5th will happen before bed. Been on the walking machine to nowhere twice and I'm over 10K steps between that and running up and down stairs for laundry today. Looks like 25 flights climbed so far.
Because standing was a lot less painful than sitting today, I worked on the train table. I should probably ramp up a new thread since this seems like I've got the motivation to get track laid and power applied this go round. My old thread had two failed layouts that never saw a train run before I started this current iteration.
Here's some pics of what's going on:
above: The layout - to left, where the Dr. P Zero Sugar is, will be the yard. Today I glued down the 2nd layer of famm to give me 2" all the way around the main level.
above: The Gorge. To the Right will be my SoCal wing, to the left will be a Northern scene with the town of Eerie Falls. The tunnel heading toward the Ginger Ale case will be the loop around the Yard on the other side of the divider. The bridge in the gorge is 3D printed from a free file. It's a bit rough. The designer needed to break it into parts. I'm not skilled enough with supports to give it what it needed (yet). I'll probably print it again if I use it. Though I could do some sanding to clean up the loose filament, and add some weathering.
Above: the layout with the weights removed from the yard side foam: I've started "staging" visual clues on the Eerie Falls side, trying to get a mental picture of what I can do over there. The "tunnel" is a misprinted section of the Titanic (on the upper deck, center)... I'm debating on having the town of EF be raised, and served by a spur line off the main. BELOW: The main would curve through a short tunnel under one end of the town (probably where the falls are... with lots of eerie things. That region will probably wrap around the background with more eerie stuff, and maybe a second falls... cause the town is "Eerie Falls" plural. So you gotta have two falls for the eerie to hang out around.
PS: Ignore the WS foram riser on that two level hunk of hill.... that was salvaged from the old layout iteration, and I was carving that piece for gaming terain. Right now it's just a visualization clue. The hills won't look anything like that... maybe.
Above, the town of St. Maurice in SoCal... this town is a slimmed down version of Santa Monica and home to the Pixie Twist series where Willie, Smudge et al got to talk trains with a mini-dragon in book 5. More 3D printed buildings there to see how N-scale would look on the layout. The purple dots show where the line to get to the helix will run. This city will have a harbor feature where the cut out section of foam is. Size to be determined later. Off camera go the right, the white risers climb up, and loop around, becoming the risers on the far right and background. Inside that loop will be the mining operation for the magical rock which powers the Infernal Combustion Engines in use by the magical inhabitants of my layout. If you are wondering why the need magical rocks to power their cars, go back and read the engine bit again.
I found an interesting channel on YouTube, with an Nscale layout. I'm amazed at the detail he's been able to put into such a small layout. Seeing his work has pretty much locked in my lean toward sticking with Nscale - unless the eye doc gives me bad news.
other guys. I would make an appearance inside, dance with a few pretty girls and head back outside. The music was always better outside.
