Well, the Loco rebuild is nearly done, but I am missing a warm day to do some more painting. I don't plan to go crazy on details, as I just want to get something up and running and maybe build a small oval layout to play around with.
I should say that this Loco rebuild cost so little. Certainly less than a commercial loco. And, for those of you who do On30, there is no reason not to make one of these Cheap-o Diesel rebuilds yourself. I didn't even use a scale rule on the model to determine how tall the cab should be. I just fudged it to the dimensions that appealed most to my Idea of a what a small critter should look like.
Anyway, as I explore crap building, yeah it's not quite a scratch build, it's so far off prototype I don't even venture to call it Scratch building. 
Job numero uno right now is that I need a train!
I had been messing around with a Tyco gondola to make a sort of narrow gauge-ish car for my loco to pull around. So I built it and it didn't look right. A bit of thinking and I realized a real Gondola is a flat car with wood walls. So I took off the lowest piece of wood and slipped a chunk of wood with the grain facing out onto the side of the car. Now it looks like there is a flat car deck on the gondola. Of course this is just fakery, there is no deck.
To the experts out there, this kind of crap building is no big feat, but I am having so much fun actually making things. My last planned layout was a modern HO european layout, that was more about shopping for things than actually modeling.
I use a lot of things that happen to be at hand. The fake deck peices are just upside down Ho siding. Some of the spacers between the plastic car and the plank are coffee stirring sticks.
Really, none of what I am making is any different from On30 aside from the fact that I will be using slightly shorter figures, and running curves that are 15" in radius to save space.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend. 
