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Like they say, " A model Railroad is never finished". My Milwaukee Northern is about 85% finished when you look at the areas needing scenery and ballast. Once these areas are complete there will always be more tasks and project to work on.
What per percentage is your layout completed? Just curious to see what other modelers are doing and completing.
I would hope that mine is somewhere around 20 % . I still have mountains to finish and refinish , I have almost all track down with the exception of a few spurs . None of my track is ballasted yet . Most of my structures are still waiting to be built .
Perhaps around 90 percent or so. All of the track is down and operational and all major scenery is complete. Smaller details is what's on the menu and then updating older areas of the layout. One town needs to have some ground cover and ballasting where tracks had to be torn out because buildings wouldn't fit. I also finally found a building that will work for a freight station that had to be built and installed there.
Went and put the track down without knowing what size buildings were going to be. Having time to work on it again is nice after not having the time to get near the train room all summer.
Problem is that I go down there to work on the layout and end up running trains.
If I assume that it should take me about 5-10 years (lets say 7), that's 2,555 days and I've been at it for 21 days, so I've got 1% done..... I'm on my way....LOL
I first built this ice deck around 1980 and it was in Railroad Modeler magazine back then.
This last week I added lights and that required adding a canopy to house the lights and the wiring. I like revising my models every once in a while. They are ever really "done" or I get bored with them.
Lets see, a little over 1 year and 350+ feet of track on 16 4x8 sheets worth of bare mdf is all I've got to show for it. I dunno 1 tenth of 1 percent maybe?
MAYBE 20%, and that's being generous. The mainline and roadbed are down. Next is the programming track, then hook up the main line to the power bus. Next put down the yard and industrial area tracks. Then ballast, build the town and other buildings. Then scenery. Once it's all "done", talk the wife into letting me take over the entire basement for my next layout.
Hard to say as I jump around from one project to another, but I'll go with ften percent I guess.
I have some track down on cork, some wiring run, most bench work in place, little bits of this and that half done.
Trying to not make the same old mistakes I usually do like doing the top level without finishing the bottom first, laying track without figuring building placement and building the buildings without figuring in the track.
If I remember correctly, Tony has a 1:1 train running across the edge of his property.
On my layout, I have to break it up like Ken.
Benchwork/roadbed/track/wiring - 60% -All running
Structures - 40%
Scenery - 15%
In the queue - About 20 structures built but not placed, over 450 Presier figures painted but not placed.
In my case it's very hard to determine. So let's see some modules are in place and I'm still tearing apart the previous placing the salvaged modules or parts of modules where I think they'll be located
So at a guess I'm somewhere in between That would be zero percent since I'm not really started nor finished the destruction of the old. But then the winter is long here and if the amount of snow is reasonable, then who knows
Charles - Good statement, When did you start. I have stated many times that I have been working on my layout for over 25 years, probably close to 30 since I dumped N scale, but I don't want anyone to think that I'm lazy. It does occupy a fairly large room, but the biggest problem that I had was that there are no hobby shops at all in my area. Having a Walthers dealership at the beginning was a big help as I was able to stock up on what I thought I would need for the layout. At the end of the 80's I had to let the dealership go. Recession hit the area and I ended up getting laid off.
It was extremely hard to get any model railroad supplies out here. There was no online retailers back then and I had placed order to a few companies advertising in model railroad magazines. This wasn't alway a good thing. They advertised an item an more often than not, it really wasn't what you needed. The only other place I could get supplies was at hobby shops in areas that we were visiting ot passing through on road trips. At least you could see an items in person and hold it.
Also, with a couple of acres of yard to keep up, not much got done in the summer either. Finally in recent years online retailers have stepped things up and I can pretty well get what I need online. (I still would rather see an item in person). I did lose a lot of time.
I am not lazy. I just had a poor supply line but I am persistent.
