darlander posted:Building a layout is like eating and elephant, one small bite at a time.
Yeah, but it sure is a daunting process, isn't it? I must admit early on, I about drove myself nuts during the build. For every one thing I did, I could only see ten more things that now needed to follow. At one time I was even having nightmares about all the work I still needed to do to even get trains running.
I know the build is the thing that some people love doing (my Dad's not a model RR guy but he loves building stuff from scratch). Not me. I do deeply enjoy tinkering, tweaking and adding details to my layout now that it sort of looks quasi-presentable, but everything that got me to this place, for the most part, was simply work to me. I didn't enjoy the early stages of my layout build at all. The most I enjoy a build is for a structure or a car; those, I do enjoy.
But not the layout. It's just a giant pile of work until it starts looking like a layout and not a unfinished table in an odd shape with track nailed to it.
