How Dunham Studios Designs and is Building a "basic" layout for a client.

Hello out there. I'm Barbara Dunham, Clarke's wife, and a working member of the  Dunham Studios team. Generally at Dunham Studios we design and build complex complete layouts museums, corporations or private clients, mostly model railroaders. The evolution of a project starts with a meeting between Clarke (design), Fletcher (graphic development) and the client. Usually the client has a dream that he (and sometimes she) can visualize but not follow through with either because of lack of specific skills or time. (We figured that for one person to build the layouts on our iconic Citicorp Station- minus the 30' station building itself- it would take 25 years of working full time 7 days a week. Who has that much time?) The client whose layout I would like to share here wanted a 'naked' layout, a basic layout. He had built a rather large layout himself but it never got finished and never ran properly. He wanted to scenic the layout himself once it is installed but he wanted Clarke to design the layout and track plan, Fletcher to develop it to fit into his Manhattan brownstone and The Studio to build the basic layout, lay the track and do the wiring. (With us a 'basic' layout included a finished T1-11 skirted base with entry doors for under-the-layout storage.) What I would like to share with you, as this layout is presently evolving at the studio, is photos of it as it grows. We'll start with the plans and take you to where we are now which is the base on the studio floor getting ready for the first level of track.