I took apart the remaining major impediments to getting my basement in condition to start railroad comstruction today. Those impediments were two sets of metal shelves that held all sorts of stuff from magazies to models (I also build model ships) and assorted junk as well. Some of these things will come back into the room once the benchwork is up.
I now have to roll and dispose of an old rug that has been down since 1982. It will be replaced by indoor/outdoor carpeting but not until the room has been painted and the sky and clouds have been painted on top of that. The walls will be the backdro on 3 of the 4 sides of the layout which will fill the room.
If things go according to plan the carpet will be gone by tomorrow evening and I'll have most of the paint by Wednesday. Some where in the next few days I'll have the electrician come and install 2 or 3 more outlets in the newly vacant wall. At that point, new carpeting will go in and construction of the benchwork will begin.
I am using the Woodland Scenics Mod-U-Rail System modules with some modifications. The straight modules are 36 inches x 18 inches but mine are going to be modified in 36" x 24" modules in some places. This will be done by using outriggers attached to the stands and made out of similar sized wood glued and screwed into the benchwork. I also plane to incorporate a pice of bedroom furniture into the benchwork as it contains a number of drawers that are useful for storing all sorts of things. It's to big and heavy to get out of the basement in any case. Since it mease 20" by 60" I'll have to modify to strait section stands to cover it but that shlouldn't be a big problem either.
So hopefully in 2 weeks, I'll have started all of the benchwork. I'll write more then.
Thanks for the updates.
Thanks for the updates. Always encouraging/enertaining to hear other's stories.
That being said - cleaning/prepping the 'train-room' is always a kill-joy. (for me anyway
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Using the old dresser
Using the old dresser drawers as storage is a creative idea. And as you say, it saves the struggle of trying to get it out of the basement.
Looking forward to benchwork pictures.
See ya
ron
Moving the old dresser
I rolled up the old carpet today and then tried to move that old dresser away from the wall in preparation for painting the wall. I couldn't move it. It's almost as if its grown roots. I'm going to have to wait for my sons and remove all the drawers before trying again.
As for benchwork pictures, I have a jpeg image of it but I haven't had time to get it uploaded. To bad I need to have some hosting service to show it. It would be so much easier to just upload it directly.
Irv
Adding an Image: Quick and Dirty
Oh dear Irv! What are we going to do with you!!
At least twice you've indicated difficulty with including images and at least twice before you have been directed to Adding Images to Posts, Blog Entries, Articles, etc. I believe the last time you said it was still too complicated!
Maybe you could try reading it yet again, slowly, allowing it to sink in and then try again, step by step?!?
You mention having to find a hosting service. Why not use your gallery here? It is no more difficult to use than any other image hosting service and you have the advantage that your images are always available!
Assuming your JPEG is already on you computer, the simplest method of displaying an image here is to use Create Content/Image!
The advantage of this method is that it is as straight forward as it gets! The disadvantage is the image post is an entity on its own! This means that no one can respond to it. You, a Moderator or an Administrator may edit it but that's it! Thus if your body is not very descriptive, the image will eventually become just another picture in the long list of previous posts that no one understands!
I am sure that you can also reference this image from other posts by using the URL from the image properties but let's leave that for another time (along with the thumbnail option)!
Cheers!
Bryan C
Alligator Lines "The Eclectic Line of the South"
http://ALines.home.att.net
My Benchwork Plan
Gee it wasn't difficult at all. Now I'll have to take some photos of the room as it exists now. It's almost empty but I don't know what to dow with alot of the poopie head thats left.
So how do I reference that post and thumbnail?
Irv
You're Welcome!
Cheers!
Bryan C
Alligator Lines "The Eclectic Line of the South"
http://ALines.home.att.net
How do I incorporate pictuires in my posts?
OK so I now have the benchwork plan up.
How can I include it in my posts? Can I do a copy and paste?
Irv
Keep reading Bryan's