Thanks guys. Sorry I didn't post Friday, I had to hold my left arm still at dialysis, to keep the alarm from going off constantly. I've got an appointment to get that fixed on the 28th. Today things are going better. All quiet, just the way we like it!
Mike - I'm always happy when someone finds something they can use, in what I'm doing.
Bob - Finding the photo was easy. I have my files pretty well organized. That early stuff isn't in with the modern stuff from the last six years. When I started the layout, I picked a half dozen locations, from which to shoot. When I restarted construction, after a 5-1/2 year cancer break (the dark years), I changed my strategy as the aisles were closing in. Now I just take pictures of what I'm working on, with the occasional overview shot. As for the Tide pods, of course I was joking. What a bunch of stupid nonsense, all to get hits on YouTube. Do something constructive, DUMMIES!
Paul - My mind is always turning when it comes to finding junk to use for the layout. I had a box full of these little pine trees, which I bought thinking would use them at enterTRAINment. Never got around to it. They were cake decorations, and I found them at the surplus store, so I bought them all. I was going to have a hillside in the back corner where they could be viewed at a distance, so their small size worked in my favor. I have no use for them now, so I brought the box over to my Sunday get together, where there are a bunch of N scalers. Four guys took about half the box. I was happy to see them go to good homes. That was a few weeks ago. Yesterday, one of them brought over what he had made with them. I didn't have a camera with me, so I didn't get a picture. Let me just say, they were beautiful! He had taken them apart, flocked them with some WS, and reassembled them, using 2 or 3 of them to make one, and threaded the pieces onto painted bamboo skewers. They were the most magnificent tall pines I've seen in any scale. Fantastic detail in the plastic molding. KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN!
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Here are some shots of Freddy. Gotta remember to let him breathe by loosening the blue cap.
In truth, my daughter is the better artist, but this is still cute after all these years.
Pig's Eye yard was full of cars, now it's almost empty.
Shoreham yard (upper deck) is mostly done. The mains near the backdrop are all that's left.
Working around from 35th Ave.
All glued here.
Almost all spread.
Saturday, I got the last section of mains painted at Pig's Eye.
I've got to get the ballast and glue dams in along here so I can finish.
The ballast is now connected, one small section left to glue.
While I had the airbrush out, I got in the hole and finished Cottage Grove.
I Hate to say it, but my son never went downstairs. He was too busy showing me his latest video game.
We did have a nice lunch though. He's in Mark's neck of the woods today, and will be heading toward Paul tomorrow. He and his buddy are doing Halls of Fame. They did baseball and hockey already, and are moving on to football and rock and roll. Can't remember which day he's coming back, but his truck's in my driveway (dripping oil).
