07-07-2010, 11:16 PM
For me it's akin to what Wayne suggests, getting a little here and a little there adds up over time. Trouble is, by the time you get the time, do you still want to take the time to make the thing or have interests changed? I guess stripwood or strip styrene can be just about anything you want it to be.
Purchased a 5 pack of blue point switch machines and a #4 L-hand turnout from my LHS today. They had been on order and somehow I missed the call saying they were in back in mid June
hock: :oops: But even so, the money to pay for them had been sitting in my wallet since I ordered them. On a basic monthly stipend of 'mad money', plus any extra I make on funerals or weddings (honorarium) that doesn't go to a household project (most recently a new screen door) I get by okay. But then again it takes a while to collect all I need. It'll be a few more months at least to acquire the rest of the track for the layout, plus wire and then there's the material for the backdrop, sky blue paint...etc. Just a question of budgeting.
All that to say, go for it. Build the stockyard! But search for free or cheap materials first. You could build several stockyards with all the little strips leftover from bottle rockets collected on our street after the 4th of July. In fact, that would make a fun contest...maybe early summer 2011? Hint hint...
Galen
Purchased a 5 pack of blue point switch machines and a #4 L-hand turnout from my LHS today. They had been on order and somehow I missed the call saying they were in back in mid June
hock: :oops: But even so, the money to pay for them had been sitting in my wallet since I ordered them. On a basic monthly stipend of 'mad money', plus any extra I make on funerals or weddings (honorarium) that doesn't go to a household project (most recently a new screen door) I get by okay. But then again it takes a while to collect all I need. It'll be a few more months at least to acquire the rest of the track for the layout, plus wire and then there's the material for the backdrop, sky blue paint...etc. Just a question of budgeting.All that to say, go for it. Build the stockyard! But search for free or cheap materials first. You could build several stockyards with all the little strips leftover from bottle rockets collected on our street after the 4th of July. In fact, that would make a fun contest...maybe early summer 2011? Hint hint...
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!