07-24-2012, 10:46 AM
How well I remember the days - when there wasn't all that much "availability" of model railroad products - or as I call it, the days of Model railroading, the days of scratch building just about everything. My now limited income, makes RTR, and even most kits, an "out-of-the-question" option. These are the days when, the things I had to learn as a young hobbyist, are now some of the most valuable resources that I have.
The other benefit of being in this hobby for so long is, I have a large enough collection of unbuilt kits, that the one asset I may not have enough of, is time.
All of the lumber for these two scratch built bridges, built in 1968, came from an old Navy packing crate, cut to size with a radial arm saw, using a "cabinet makers blade". ( no kerf - 'A tooth set that has an alternating, left-right sequence' - ) No, I can't use that for HO 1 X 6, 2 X 4, 2 X 6, but anything larger is possible, and was done.
I guess the ultimate "definer" here is: Do I want to have?, or, do I want to do.
Personally, I get more satisfaction from the doing, than from the having. But then, I am 'old'.
The other benefit of being in this hobby for so long is, I have a large enough collection of unbuilt kits, that the one asset I may not have enough of, is time.
All of the lumber for these two scratch built bridges, built in 1968, came from an old Navy packing crate, cut to size with a radial arm saw, using a "cabinet makers blade". ( no kerf - 'A tooth set that has an alternating, left-right sequence' - ) No, I can't use that for HO 1 X 6, 2 X 4, 2 X 6, but anything larger is possible, and was done.
I guess the ultimate "definer" here is: Do I want to have?, or, do I want to do.
Personally, I get more satisfaction from the doing, than from the having. But then, I am 'old'.
We always learn far more from our own mistakes, than we will ever learn from another's advice.
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!