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Boy...has it been that long since I posted anything? I'm way onto page 2.

I've been working on the Ford model, but am getting ready to build the Bronx Victorian Building. I'm going back over all the drawings before getting them to Andre at River Leaf, and am I glad that I did. I remeasured the actual building on Google Earth and compared it to my SketchUp rendering. I was too wide by about 10% and a little short. Then I decided to print out some of my Illustrator drawings and compare it to the actual 3D printed parts. Again, am I glad that I did that. I can change the drawings, but I can't get more of those parts printed.

Both the large 2nd floor windows and the smaller 3rd floor windows were about .3" too wide. Here's the trim fitted to the now-adjusted window width. Notice too all the brick work that will get laser-engraved. I chose a fancy bond design, but surprisingly, the real building did not have a bond pattern. That 3D trim is going to look really cool and I don't know how I could have done it otherwise.

Bronx Trim Design Fit

Yesterday, my friend brought his wonderful 7 year-old son for a couple of hours of train running fun. Now that winter's here my track alignment problems corrected themselves and we were getting good performance. I did post something on the electrical forum last week when I changed out an MTH broken grain-of-wheat bulb for an LED and blew out the CV board when I accidentally grounded it to the chassis. MTH had two in stock and I ordered a new one of the other A unit of the E-8 PS-1 Rock Island lash up.

The 7 year-old is smart and really getting into trains. The other day he told his dad, "He wanted to be Myles when he grew up." I don't think he was referring to an "accomplished training director of a major industrial company." I think he was referring to "an old guy who doesn't have to work and plays with trains all day." That sounds pretty good to me. He's at an age where he's really noticing the details of the trains, the things that make one kind of engine different from another. He looked inside my mountain and exclaimed, "The whole inside is made of trash!" I told him that he was absolutely right. The entire mountain is cardboard strips covered with plaster.

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