I have to admit I'd be a little suspicious of a -Florida- pancake house offering "our own maple syrup."   But it's a great build, and the weathering is -consistent-.  

dave

Right at freezing in my corner of the world, with a bit of white stuff on the lawn.  It's supposed to get up to 37, so the roads will be clear.  Today's project is figuring out how to reverse the office building on Lamson.

dave

Stolen from the daily Far Side retrospective site.  I now have a name for what my trains encounter on my layout!

Today I might start opening the windows on the front of the main mill building.  I figure to try that one first.

dave

Yesterday I visited 4 layouts on Tour de Chooch.  I'll post some photos later today.

dave

Looks like you have plenty of vertical clearance if the 0-5-0 is required to fix a derail.

dave

Happy Day, all you turkeys!

I have a turkey breast to do.  It's raining, so I won't do it outside on the grill as planned.  Bummer.  But until I start cooking, I'll head down to the train room.  The scenery 'dirt' and paint I laid down yesterday is a bit dark, so I'll look at lightening the mix.  Texture is good and it stuck to the paint/glue mix quite well.  

dave

Good afternoon...  Today I took a trip to Home Depot and bought some grout and a sample size of paint in what I hope are consistent colors.  I thinned the paint 50% with white glue, with the idea this is the base for the grout as the first layer of texture.  The sanded grout doesn't have all that much texture, I might look into mixing fine sand/screened paver base into it.  

Rain tomorrow, so I won't be doing the turkey on the smoker/grille like I originally planned.  Darn.

The 'Laird o' the Malts' called a pre-Thanksgiving meeting of the neighborhood Scotch Club, I'll join that before dinner tonight.  

dave

Light rain and seasonably cool temps here, typical November weather.  We're having people over tonight, so I have a bit of last-minute shopping to do.  The Celluclay I laid down last week is still damp in places!  I may do some Celluclay over the plaster wrap I laid down over the weekend, and then wait a week for that to dry, too.  

dave

Ugh!  Hope Tom & Sandy are OK, and their insurance treats them well!

add:  We'll have 2 geology professors over for dinner tomorrow (one is the sister visiting a neighbor, the other one of my profs from UNH.  The two know each other, they work in the same area.)  I can't wait to hear what they have to say about my countertops, which I think are particularly interesting from a petrology/mineralogy perspective...

dave

I don't know if you can view this page without logging in/setting up an account:

https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/barchester-pennsylvania-12690925?pid=1341269050  That RDG track plan and pictures from Newtown PA sure strike me as a great modeling opportunity! 

dave

Good afternoon...   I'm back from the big Winter Farmers Market, it was really crowded (in part with people like me buying stuff for Thanksgiving.)  I got some mushroom varieties, some lettuce/salad stuff and some radishes, a loaf of crusty bread, and a pot for my wife.  We're having some people over Tuesday.  In the meantime, if I build up steam, I'll do some scenery work on the shelf part of the layout.   One area is ready for static grass, the other needs scenic base textures including a dirt road.

dave

Good afternoon from SE NH.  We had rain last night, and some more rain predicted for tonight.  We're desperate for rain, so this is welcome.  But it did stop long enough for me to take the dogs out for a walk, where they saw (and barked at) several neighbors.  

I should do some more scenery on the shelf part, either adding static grass to the edge that I did some other textures yesterday, or doing some of the 'interior' parts between the tracks and buildings.  

dave

The Micro-Mark thin square is one of their best products!

dave

I may pull the trigger on Lamson for this winter's build challenge..  I have the location picked out, I just need to figure out how to position the buildings.  It won't be according to the SRMW layout

dave

I can understand that.  There are times when I look at my train room, and the lack of progress compared to what I expected, and I think "it's all too much."  I have lots of half-completed projects that, at my rate of progress, would probably take me 2-3 years to finish.  Like you, my primary interest has been in building things, structures, cars, etc...  But at least working on the current shelf, including some scenery work yesterday, has motivated me a bit more.  And I do have a spot for a SRMW kit that is calling me for the contest (hence my question about 'on the layout'?)

So build what you enjoy!

dave