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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #120 on: July 21, 2011, 06:21:19 PM »
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Quote from: David K. Smith on July 10, 2011, 06:32:12 PM
Your son is going to wind up with a layout that's nicer than what a number of "serious" modelers have done.
He's already making my layouts looks like junk...  ;D
Dave, you and your son are doing a great job with the layout! and ditto, he'll remember that layout forever.
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #121 on: November 11, 2011, 01:40:51 PM »
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Dave,

I have just read this topic from the beginning and let me tell you, the story it tells is really awesome!

Seeing something being built from the bottom up and allowing your son to help in the process makes me look forward to being able to do that with my little guy someday!

Thanks for sharing this!
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #122 on: November 11, 2011, 02:08:31 PM »
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I made my son hang the sheetrock in the train room.  Then I did the rest. ;)
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #123 on: November 11, 2011, 02:09:12 PM »
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Colonel this should be a book from Kalmback
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #124 on: November 11, 2011, 02:40:49 PM »
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Chuck,

Thanks, but none of the pictures I took are up to Kalmbach's standards.
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #125 on: November 15, 2011, 10:25:51 PM »
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Nor does the layout stoop to them.  Carry on.
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #126 on: November 22, 2011, 10:20:51 PM »
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So, we had THREE generations of model railroaders working on this layout yesterday.  My parents came down for a few days to spend time with me as I recover from back surgery.  Yesterday, my Dad (Jacob's Grampy), Jacob, and I all worked on completing the CSX overpass over NC Route 55 (Williams Street) in Apex.  It's far from an exact replica (it's highly simplified) but it does the trick.  Old Rix overpass parts, styrene, and balsa wood make up the bridge.  A mottled series of hits of Testor's Light and Dark Aircraft Gray spray cans gives it its color.  The deck was ballasted with a homemade mix of Woodland Scenics gray blend ballast with a few cinders tossed in to mimic Kato's ballast.  The slopes are covered with a mix of medium-viscosity matte medium and ground foam, a technique published by Dave Frary.

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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #127 on: November 22, 2011, 10:30:57 PM »
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Aces!
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #128 on: November 23, 2011, 12:27:31 AM »
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Looks good!
Way to bridge that generation gap!  8)
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #129 on: November 23, 2011, 09:39:10 AM »
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Well done Vollmers!  Now you just need some of those really great new WOT SeaLand containers and their yet to be produced tractors to complete the scene . . . .
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #130 on: November 23, 2011, 10:41:38 AM »
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I'm hoping to have enough of the structure kits we need by Christmas so we can have the layout around 80% complete for a train show in Alabama in Spring.
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #131 on: November 23, 2011, 11:12:32 AM »
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Nice work, and nice to hear about 3 generations working together.
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #132 on: January 15, 2012, 05:56:40 PM »
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Slow going due to back surgery recovery and structure assembly, but here's where we stand now:



Some IMEX buildings help flesh out the layout.  Jacob and I scrolled through the MB Klein website until we found structures that looked like Apex, NC.  Jacob chose the final buildings.

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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #133 on: February 23, 2012, 01:57:15 PM »
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It's getting there...



Came in from the garage because I had to clean out the garage in preparation for a new toy... :D
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Re: Planning a layout for my son
« Reply #134 on: February 23, 2012, 02:05:47 PM »
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Quote from: Dave Vollmer on February 23, 2012, 01:57:15 PM
I had to clean out the garage in preparation for a new toy... :D

2 or 4 WD?
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