Am I the only one having several projects going on simultaneously?

No.

Rusty

I’m up to my eyeballs in projects,......you are not the only one....at least you have percentiles of completion......I need to send you some of mine!.........Pat

Naw....although you seem to have more than just three buildings under construction l sometimes have....but now l just have a coaling tower being kitbashed, and a scratch built logging cook house waiting on furniture to finally get here.  Obviously, l need to stop goofing off.

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It ain't natural to only have one project at a time..

Rare is the individual model railroader that has only one project ongoing to completion at a time.  If you find one, capture that individual for further study.

No, but it's okay if you are having fun.

If you are not having fun then it's not ok

All the time. ..

And this one too

If you don't have at least a half dozen going at the same time, you aren't model railroading!.  I've got at least 10 right now.  And some are actually approaching being finished!  Of course, I keep adding to the list so it isn't in any danger of disappearing... 

And Archie's Bar

Most of the time I'm having fun, but today  putting together the fire escape for my Korber background apartment building had me spouting out a lot of new curse words!

And adding a new home for this station 

And weathering some Lionel water towers too...

I've got about six going on and I don't even have a layout right now.

  I’m almost more afraid of actually finishing my layout (if that’s even possible) than having too many small projects going at once.  It’s nice to do scenery, when I’m tired of wiring.  Or paint figures & buildings, when another facet gets a little boring.  

Tom

Yes, yes you are. Everyone else is calm and focused and does not feed into their ADD

No, for me it is one project at a time like one I have a old weaver SD40-2 that has a shallow fuel tank, I decided it needed a more scale tank so that's the project I will work on until it's done. 

Then when that is done I move on to the next.

Dave

Consider yourself in good company.  Not only am I playing with my trains but I also am working on several non-train related projects and family related issues.  I don't think I was this busy before I retired.....LOL

Gondolawillie posted:

For the last 8 months or so I have been working on my new 6 x 9 1/2 "retirement" layout. I find myself doing several projects off and on simultaneously--laid down the track, but have only got the inside loop "finished" with foam roadbed and painted ballast.; have been working on the outside loop and sidings--not finished. I have several structure kits that I'm working on-- all currently 80% done. I'm turning MTH Boris Car Lot building into a representation of my local Chrysler Jeep dealer (75% finished). My Korber grain elevator is 90% done, just needs a few more details. And then there are a number of small things I want to do before wiring the track and some accessories. Am I the only guy chasing a bunch of projects at once?

I've got several HUNDRED projects NOT going on simultaneously, let alone individually.

Can anyone top that? 

Gondolawillie posted:

 Am I the only guy chasing a bunch of projects at once?

No.

Let's see, at the moment I'm...

• Making a pink foam mountain for the center rear portion of the layout.
• Adding ground cover for the north section.
• Fixing a switch on the south section, then once that's done some rewiring.
• Reworking the scenery underneath and around my timber trestle.
• Building up the roadbed near where I'm gong to cut in a switch for a a siding.
• Laying out the beginning of what will eventually be some sort of town or village scene.
• Planning stages of a yard

Friends keep asking me when my layout is going to be finished. I'm not sure it ever will be but if it is, I know I'll be sad.

If this is only limited to trains I have just 2. Putting my CSS back together and moving my train room.

If we're talking about other projects...It's endless! Honey due lists......Need I say more....

That’s what keeps your interest up. From one day to the next I never know what I’ll be working on. 

Let me try to list them: Upgrading all 30+ passenger cars to LEDs; Building an electronic station stop, hold, & go for my subway; Installing a new flasher unit on a 20+ year old RR crossing flasher from Shiloh Signals; Building a railside signal cabinet to hide the infrared transmitter on a PRR 7 light position signal; Installing three ERR Cruise Commanders for customers; Helping a friend lay several hundred feet of HO track on his new layout; Helping the same friend getting the horn working on his old horizontal motored Lionel F unit; Freshening up the 25 year old scenery on my own layout with the several bags of clump foliage i bought last Sat. at a train show; Upgrading as many as possible incandescent lamps in buildings with LEDs as possible; Getting back to scratch building a New Haven EP3 on a GG1 chassis; Repairing my Williams scale 44 ton switcher.

The question is "Am I having fun yet?

Your not the only one. I have multiple locomotive, accessories, and a couple freight and passenger car restoration projects, all from prewar to modern era. I'm slowly getting the parts and appropriate tools that will complete them. Along with some Revell bomber plane kits and model car and boat kits that are still in their boxes and a battery operated Marx tinplate toy plane that needs to be repaired...

xrayvizhen posted:

Let's see, at the moment I'm...

• Making a pink foam mountain for the center rear portion of the layout.
• Adding ground cover for the north section.
• Fixing a switch on the south section, then once that's done some rewiring.
• Reworking the scenery underneath and around my timber trestle.
• Building up the roadbed near where I'm gong to cut in a switch for a a siding.
• Laying out the beginning of what will eventually be some sort of town or village scene.
• Planning stages of a yard

Friends keep asking me when my layout is going to be finished. I'm not sure it ever will be but if it is, I know I'll be sad.

See?   You qualify just fine with seven things in the works!  Welcome to the club!  Right now I have in the pipeline:

• a scratch built piece of motive power that will be presented at the national S gauge convention
• a Pine Canyon gas station (almost done)
• a Pine Canyon custom auto shop (well into the process)
• repainting seven kit-bashed Osgood Bradley cars for New Haven made from cut up Flyer cars
• finishing off two resin shell DL-109s, also for New Haven
• beginning an Art Deco theater kit from Twin Whistle (just arrived today)
• bashing a few Hot Wheels cars into something with a more prototypical paint job
• Finding places for a growing list of buildings that are bound for The Layout
• sitting in the middle of my layout and simply watching trains around me for a Zen break
• tweaking the hand built turnouts to make everything as smooth as possible
• playing trains with my grandson once or twice a week on The Layout (he has a corner to himself and runs trains anywhere he wants - thanks to FlyerChief)
• gathering a bunch of items I'm taking to major train events to thin out the "herd"
• Doing minor restoration and cleaning of recent acquisitions
• working from time to time on a scratch built Michigan Central depot in Ann Arbor
• also wondering what I'll do when my layout is finished.  I ain't doing THIS again!

Why so many things at once?  I used to be in a job where you HAD to  stick to one thing to get things done.  No more.  When I get tired of one, or stuck on a detail, I go to another while keeping them all in mind searching for solutions or a logical plan of attack on another project.  And remember, trains are only a part of our lives.  If we're lucky, we still have a Significant Other in our lives, kids and grandkids, friends and other interests.  I also have a 1937 Ford street rod in my garage that needs to be driven, but is waiting for the salt to be washed off the streets and a bit of warmer weather to come our way.  Then there's the house chores and sometimes simply sitting in the back yard with a nice beverage and thinking how lucky we are.

I used to have a number of projects going on at the same time but now it's one project at a time.  Once I start a project I see it through to the end.

LOVE THE FEELING