suzukovich posted:
Yep, that's the stuff I've been looking forward to, all the little detail things. I know lots of folks love the entire layout build, from the first 2X4 they cut. Not me, I haven't really enjoyed my layout much until I can run trains on the thing and even then not so much as I now do that it's looking more like a miniature world than small rolling stock on a giant wood platform.
I'm now at the point where I'm breaking out a lot of detail parts I've been slowly gathering for stuff like these power poles. I just placed some Wiseman garbage can castings on the layout, one I even stuffed with scale, "trash" and placed the lot on cockeyed so you can just barely see something in there. Mailboxes are going to come next. I even placed a couple of blue-star 'son in service' banners in the front windows of a couple of structures, as the layout takes place in WW2. I had even made a gold-star one denoting a KIA family member, but I just couldn't do it.
With Memorial Day upon us, I had an issue on details on the layout a few days ago. Someone said it'd be 'funny' if I modeled a couple of officers making a call on the (now) widow. I darned near punched him. I did that twice, myself, in the Army. It's not funny AT ALL, in any way (ironic nor 'haha' funny). I still have nightmares about having to make those visits. It's one of the few things that war movies are 100% right about, the wives really do react like they do in the movies, I found out the hard way. Besides, very few KIA notifications were made in person during WW2, as most came by messenger or the mail.
