Great great website! I think you should turn your helix building into a book since it's so well detailed.I assume that was for 'n scale'. I am curious on how long that took to build with your '1 hour' rule. My other question is 'what dd you do with it'? Doesn't seem easy to convert to s scale.
Seems like you made to great choices - wives and scales! All the best Grant --- In [email protected], "Roger Nulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Terrific website, Peter. Glad you're coming up to S Scale. > > Roger Nulton > Tacoma, Washington > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Peter Vanvliet > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:12 PM > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Layouts - or who has what? > > > Since I just switched from N scale to S, I am in the planning stages > of my new layout. I have the same space available as I had for N, so > it will be a small switching layout. Mostly it will be for going > through the experience of dealing with a larger scale. This will be > my 8th layout. > > Several years ago I came up with the idea of re-usable benchwork. My > other hobby is woodworking, more specifically furniture building. The > idea was to build a collection of re-usable cabinets on top of which > I could build a layout. The cabinets would be used for model > railroading and general household goods storage. You can never have > enough storage. Here in Houston we don't have basements, so we have > to almost always use a bedroom, and so providing additional storage > space, while claiming real estate for the hobby provides a nice > bargaining chip. Anyway, I started building those cabinets out of > furniture-grade plywood and stained and lacquered the visible parts. > Each cost me about $250 in materials. I also learned about ergonomics > (the hard way), and so the fronts of the cabinets have no protruding > parts. I built ten of the 32 cabinets before my ex and I decided to > part ways. I got to keep the ten cabinets in the divorce! :-) The > good news is that my new wife is into model railroading (she models HO and G). > > Anyway, to make a long story even longer, I am going to use those ten > cabinets to serve as my foundation for my new S-scale layout. If you > are interested, you can follow along on my web site (which I update > every couple of days) at: > > http://www.fourthray.com/Peter/ > > The point of this e-mail is that I realized a long time ago that we > spend a lot of money on wood materials, especially if we build new > layouts every so often. What if we build a layout foundation that can > go with us when we move and be re-used for a future layout? Just some > food for thought. > > Peter. > > At 04:18 pm 07/24/2008, you wrote: > > >It's been quite some time since we talked about our layouts, so let > >us know what you have and why you built it that way (or how you plan > >to build it). What would you do differently if you could start over? > > > >Mark Plank > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Vanvliet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.fourthray.com/ > http://www.fourthray.com/Peter/ > Houston, Texas > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
