Some more progress on our extension. We spent most of yesterday hauling everything out of our storage room at the theater, and then staring at the layout trying to figure out where we want to add all of our new additions. My initial plan for the extension on the right was to construct a large park with a new ice skating rink, the carousel and the N gauge train (simulating a ride on train in O scale) from last year. Upon staring at it and trying to find a location for the On30 set I also purchased over the off season, we decided to make the extension a more rustic area with a narrow gauge train, maybe my horse barn and a few other more rural feeling buildings.
I still plan on doing the park elsewhere, and mocked up my new ice skating rink tonight. My grandpa put together a wooden frame for me (mainly because I haven't had any time to work on such a thing) which will hold the 12"x24" piece of white translucent acrylic I bought on Amazon. Beneath that will be some LED strip lights which have the ability to change color with a remote. It's a little intense, but we'll work on fixing that later when I do the final assembly. The frame was painted grey tonight to simulate concrete, and I'll probably embed it in the snow somewhere so it looks like a nice park ice skating rink. I've never had a good place to display the many ice skating figures I've acquired over the years, so this fits the bill.
