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altivoWell on Friday night I predicted a "slowdown" for the weekend and said I was looking forward to it. What we got was in fact a "snowdown" with additional snow each day. Nothing significant, but enough to cover up the ground and roofs each day with new clean white flakes. A total of perhaps an inch or more, not enough to be a big deal, but certainly pretty each morning.
Actually, it has been reasonably warm too for January, with temperatures just below freezing down to about 24F or so.
Gary had a workshop to attend in Chicago, was gone much of the day. I wasn't sure when he'd get back, so I made dinner in the crockpot. It was pretty successful: meatloaf made from ground turkey with onions, garlic, green pepper, etc. and roasted with tiny potatoes and carrots for about 8 hours. Smelled tasty and was ready when he did get home about 7 pm. Now we have three days' worth of leftovers in the fridge so he won't have to cook much this week. Salmon patties from last night, and pizza from Friday, together with the meatloaf will carry us through Thursday. That's my half day of work so I can cook again when we get that far.
All the t-trak module bases are glued and set. Now they need to be sanded and given a primer coat. One is to have a short steel span bridge with a river or lake under it, and furries fishing and canoeing. Another gets a bee yard with bears tending the hives and extracting honey. A third will have the train passing a schoolyard with furry children and teachers on the playground, and the fourth is probably going to have a honey processing plant with bulk honey being loaded into tank cars and packaged honey into box cars for shipment. Gary also gave me an N scale stable building and half a dozen horses in the same scale that I can use to occupy one of the square corners of the layout.
I'm also hoping to prepare passenger cars with furry passengers, conductor, and a post office clerk preparing to snag a mail bag in passing. I'm not so sure I can manage my original design to place a horse engineer at the controls of an N scale GP-7 locomotive, though. There just isn't enough space in the cab of the locomotives. Though they have windows that could be used, the interior space is almost entirely occupied by the internal mechanical parts. I need to do some experimenting with that.
Actually, it has been reasonably warm too for January, with temperatures just below freezing down to about 24F or so.
Gary had a workshop to attend in Chicago, was gone much of the day. I wasn't sure when he'd get back, so I made dinner in the crockpot. It was pretty successful: meatloaf made from ground turkey with onions, garlic, green pepper, etc. and roasted with tiny potatoes and carrots for about 8 hours. Smelled tasty and was ready when he did get home about 7 pm. Now we have three days' worth of leftovers in the fridge so he won't have to cook much this week. Salmon patties from last night, and pizza from Friday, together with the meatloaf will carry us through Thursday. That's my half day of work so I can cook again when we get that far.
All the t-trak module bases are glued and set. Now they need to be sanded and given a primer coat. One is to have a short steel span bridge with a river or lake under it, and furries fishing and canoeing. Another gets a bee yard with bears tending the hives and extracting honey. A third will have the train passing a schoolyard with furry children and teachers on the playground, and the fourth is probably going to have a honey processing plant with bulk honey being loaded into tank cars and packaged honey into box cars for shipment. Gary also gave me an N scale stable building and half a dozen horses in the same scale that I can use to occupy one of the square corners of the layout.
I'm also hoping to prepare passenger cars with furry passengers, conductor, and a post office clerk preparing to snag a mail bag in passing. I'm not so sure I can manage my original design to place a horse engineer at the controls of an N scale GP-7 locomotive, though. There just isn't enough space in the cab of the locomotives. Though they have windows that could be used, the interior space is almost entirely occupied by the internal mechanical parts. I need to do some experimenting with that.
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Date: 2012-01-30 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-30 06:23 pm (UTC)I can work at that scale as long as I use some magnification (for which we have suitable stuff available.) The question is how much detail and time to put into it. I have to keep my perfectionism under control. For instance, one can build clay figures by using colored clay to model the details, or one can simply paint them after they've been cured. I would normally want to use the colored clay, but this is probably a good application for the paintbrush.
The passenger cars allow just barely enough detail to be visible through the windows when lit from within. Internal lighting is available in LED form, so I'll try it. Unfortunately I'll have to create seating as well, as the cars I have are merely empty shells with windows.
The post office car will allow the clerk to be seen full length with no obstruction other than the mail bag hook, but the door wasn't made to open so I'll have to cut it open myself.
The figures most likely to be examined closely are the ones that will be out in the open, such as boaters, hikers, and the bears at work. Those will require a lot more attention. I'd like to put a brakeman in the caboose of a freight train too, but the windows are really tiny. I may have to pose him on the steps or the roof.