One of the things I enjoy most about model railroading is meeting new people who are fellow railroaders. Such is the case this past month. I met Bryan Daniel and his friend Bob at the Model Railroad Expo at Cal Expo last month. Bryan is building his own HO layout and Has allowed me the opportunity to work on it with him and Bob. So I have had a blast helping Bryan and getting to know him and Bob as well as working on my own layout.
This post finds us working on both the bottom and the top of the layout. This is one of the auto reversing controllers that I have installed to allow the DCC control to reverse the signal to the locomotive when it returns from one of the reverse loops.
Much of the time this week has been spent on finishing this 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive model kit from Bowser. I have had this for about seven years and was able to get it finished to this point. Still need to get the detail parts put on and install the DCC decoder as well as paint and weather it. Still lots to do but it runs on DC and it has been a fun project.
The scenery is coming along fine here is my rock face and river bottom almost ready for painting and finishing.
Getting ready for the hard shell which will finish this section of the mountain. Having fun and learning lots.
That 4-8-4 Northern looks cool. I'm excited to see what it looks like detailed and painted. What are you going to name your mountain? You know every good mountain needs a name. Next time I come home I'm going to bring some climbing figures to put on your mountain!
ReplyDeleteHey, this is going along just great. Talent night is coming up in April. How are you going to share this with the ward? You're doing a great job, so keep it up. If you're going to have climbers on the mountain, I want equal representation for skiers/boarders! That brings the notion of seasonal activities, like snow removal depictions--have you seen any before? Making a plow just might be an original, not kit based, or is there a kit? And where are you putting the temple? Which temple would you copy? I suppose you could have so many ideas to include that it's impossible to have it all---that of course leads you to start thinking of what to include in your next layout... This could take some time! JKL
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