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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #75 on: October 10, 2012, 03:04:54 AM »
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Sweet video! (hate to see you go, but I love to watch you leave)   :ashat:

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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #76 on: October 10, 2012, 08:10:16 AM »
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MC, just did the same with my G&D, so I know the feeling. For me, it's always been the journey, not the destination. Some folks just don't get it, but for me a layout is a transition, not an endpoint. Good to see someone else with the same sensibilities. Best of luck with your future projects.

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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #77 on: October 10, 2012, 11:30:15 AM »
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Sweet video! (hate to see you go, but I love to watch you leave)   :ashat:

Thanks!
Funny comment, considering there's no caboose  :P
(though the last car is full of meat)  :ashat:

Ed: I'll double check the wheels, but the loco runs fine on decent trackwork.
I'm pretty sure all the bumps & wobble are due to the crappy trackwork I was learning on.

But that was one point of the "chainsaw" to begin with, so I can take those lessons to the next layout.
This layout has been definitely worth it in terms of skillz-building, and as much as I'd love to "finish" it (and sell it), it'd just take more work than I have the heart right now.

Plus, I tend to get to the point where I've learned what I need to from a layout and then get more excited about starting the next project than finishing this one.
As the poet William Carlos Williams wrote: "If the power to go on falters in the middle of the sentence--that's the end of the sentence."

Thanks to all who made suggestions / comments while I was working on it.
Definitely helped!
Cheers!
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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #78 on: October 10, 2012, 11:38:18 AM »
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Plus, I tend to get to the point where I've learned what I need to from a layout and then get more excited about starting the next project than finishing this one.

Oh, boy!  I sure have been there!

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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #79 on: October 10, 2012, 12:33:23 PM »
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very nice work!

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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #80 on: October 10, 2012, 03:55:10 PM »
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Well, 'tis done.
 
Saved all the structures and bridges:
 


[no way the bents were coming out from the water!]
 
Want to know what 400+ pine trees looks like bunched together?
 


You've seen my daughter's and my "Train-in-a-Box" layout [and if you haven't, there'll be a two-part article in the next issues of N-Scale Magazine: http://www.nscalemagazine.com/index.html], well, now see my "Train-in-a-Bag":
 


So it goes.
 
On the plus side, in addition to all the spare structures and trees, as well as all the skillz I learned, I have a heck of a lot more space in the garage & around the workbench.
 Better get to filling that up with a new layout!
 (Right after I finish my Free-moN Shoo-fly module: I promised myself I wouldn't start another project until finishing that one!]
 
Thanks for looking.
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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #81 on: October 10, 2012, 04:39:52 PM »
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Sad to see it go, but can't wait to see what you come up with next!
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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #82 on: October 10, 2012, 06:28:01 PM »
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Sad to see it go, but can't wait to see what you come up with next!

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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #83 on: October 10, 2012, 06:29:38 PM »
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+3.  I always enjoy your work, so I know you'll have something to amaze us very soon.

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Re: Mt. Coffin & Columbia River - 23"x41" layout
« Reply #84 on: October 11, 2012, 02:00:16 PM »
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+4  Can't wait to see what you come up with next