A House for San Berdoo ... but first, The Garage

[P5se Camelback]

... my money is reserved for things I deem more important, and, I consciously choose to not support entertainers who cannot realize they are entertainers, not social engineers. ...

... or somehow more intelligent than anyone else ...

... or to bad-mouth the Capitalist System after using it to make multi-millions for themselves,
but then don't feel it neccesary to practice what they preach and redistribute that wealth
amongst "those less fortunate!"

AHEM! Back to the topic of the thread ...

The soffit overhang scales out at about three feet ... the thing looks like it could fly given a headwind! Whatever ... it'll get a new roof! This structure (pair of structures) will be two of the six scratch-built ones I will need for my NMRA "Master Builder: Structures" Achievement Award. As such, I want it to be the best it can be and garner the most points possible when it is judged!

I figured that since I've volunteered to do a couple of these San Bernardino houses (with garages,) I may as well throw in a half dozen of the kit-bashed and "extra-detailed" structures, including a short, curved "super-detailed" Campbell trestle that I've got wrapped in tissue paper and packed in styro peanuts that I spent hours and hours on back in the '80's, put them with these new, scratch-built guys and get a little something out of the NMRA membership to hang on the "train room" wall!

The Scale Rails club is a 100% NMRA club and everyone is pretty involved somehow, giving clinics at Regional and Divisional Meets, holding Regional or Divisional office, and/or working on the Achievement Award Program, so I may as well join the fun! When you think about it, it would be pretty stupid to do all this work, have an opportunity to reap some benefit of doing the work and then not take advantage of that opportunity, wouldn't it? [My Grandfather and my Father both impressed upon us as young kids the importance of seizing opportunity when it presented itself, as the circumstances for doing so may only present themselves once in a lifetime.]