I haven't even started yet. Waiting to get the new house built. Hopefully in the next couple years. While I enjoy working on stuff, I think I'm going to enlist a bit of professional help. There is certainly many things I plan to do, but I also want to get some time running and enjoying them. If I count on me to do it all, it will never get done. There's still a lot of other things in life to tend to. I hate wiring and I don't want to force myself to do things I don't like and am not good at, just to say I did it all. I'll have plenty to do just going through my massive pile of postwar trains repairing and servicing them. I'm a better mechanic than carpenter and electrician. I hear so many stories on the forum of burnt out builders that are unhappy. I don't want to put myself in those shoes.
Good thread.