“Where’s all the scenery?”
July 15th, 2007 Posted in PlanningI’m not sure how many layouts I’ve started over the years but I suspect this may well be my seventh serious attempt at getting a layout beyond the ‘Plywood Central’ stage. For my increasingly skeptical wife and friends I’m sure they have all merged into a single project ‘that looks the same as the last time we were over’. Given that scenery and architecture are the aspects of the hobby that really interest me it does seem odd that I’ve never got to that stage.
The last layout to bite the dust was an ambitious double track oval. Aware that the writing was on the wall for the current railway room with the pending arrival of our first son I began the familiar process of demolishing yet another layout. Afterwards I indulged in a bit of art therapy with some guidance from my friend, artist Sam Creyton, aware that this may well have been my last layout for quite sometime.
An assemblage formed from various fragments
of my previous layouts and plans.