Jon came over today. We got a couple of things done, but we spent much of the afternoon talking about the layout.
We started off by finishing running the camera wires that we started last Saturday. After that we snapped chalk lines to start drawing the track plan for the Ford Plant. It's not too bad working up there. Most of the track will be toward the front edge anyway.
It was about that point when we got sidetracked as Jon discovered some photo albums on the bookshelf. The first one was from enterTRAINment, the second was past layouts that I built. The third one was reference photos of the locations that I'm modeling on this layout.
We were well into the discussion of scenery, when Jon asked what season I plan to model. I thought for a moment, and said why not all of them? I have four aisles, one per.
All that talk made me want to start unpacking trains, but Jon talked me out of that. Instead, we took my intermodal collection of containers and trailers down from above the bookshelves, and I started to spread them around some of the more finished areas of the upper deck. This is actually the very beginning of scenery. The stacks on the left now conceal the opening in the backdrop.
I still need to work on it, but that's the general idea.
Here's the view from "backstage".
It was just a fun afternoon. Patrick Sunday.
