Good morning, folks!
We had a wee bit of rain overnight, and it looks like we'll be getting some more today. That's a good thing; I'm a cooler weather species.
Tom - I appreciated the tutorial on ballasting you wrote up this morning. Thank-you!
JeffH - Nice looking pooch! Tough luck on the leg pains. Hope it don't affect the bus driving job.
Ken - Be safe on the motorcycle trip. If you come a-lot more west, you might meet up with my Harley driving brother. He's got one leg 2" shorter than the other, due to a motorcycle accident on such a trip. - He's touring in the Oregon area as we speak.
Ken in Illinois - Sorry to hear you're having so many health issues. Seems to me, you're still a young man. Gotta look after yourself.
Gary - Glad you had an excellent camp-out weekend. I haven't heard anyone pipe-up about the Canadian caboose question. I was hoping to hear an answer to that question myself.
If it's going to rain today, I'll work on the last oil dealership building that need attention before I can proceed with groundwork and detailing. The pump house requires some hoses and pipes to be attached, or it can't fill the truck with heating oil:
This layout is going to take a loong time to build; I can see that.
I would like to build about four more structures before I get serious about putting down ground cover. It seems to me, it's a good idea to have enough structures available where one knows what the town is going to look like.
Plus, I need to know where the roads are going to go. And I need to research how I'm going to build the roads. The sandpaper idea don't work for me, so I'll need to come up with another idea. Mainstreet will be pavement, and all the rest will be gravel roads.
There's also lots of sidewalk to worry about.
I feel like I'm going to be an old, old man before I get this layout finished. If I ever do.
I'm thinking this will be the next structure I build. Another Walthers kit:
Up here, when you enter into a small town, the motel is the first building you pass. Then the local gas station before hitting main street.
I actually wasn't going to post this morning, because I didn't have any photos. So, I whipped those two up in a hurry.
DaveB - Nice looking garden, but, I gotta tell ya, the bird-bath is upside down. Won't work that way.
Willie - Good on you to revamp old models. Frankly, I despise doing that, and usually give my old damaged models to the grandkids or chuck them. But, I'm new in layouts, and all the old models I have are other scale planes and tanks. I don't seem interested in those anymore.
I got carried away with the yap today. I'd better get doing something else.
Have a great day!