It looks good so far Chris.:thumbs_up: Have fun planning and building your layout. Keep posting photo's.
Well I don't want to take up a whole page with pictures, so I'll post the link to my photobucket and link some highlights. http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Jeepy84/Trains/ The pile from whence the beast came. The other frame and yes, it's got wheels! Reinforcement for the unsupported obtuse angle. The monster occupies it's corner for the first time.
Height reference. I'm 6 foot tall. Wait til there is a couple inches of foam on there, oi! Finally, I can start getting a true idea of how much room I have. And last but not least, the n-scale version of the locomotive I saw IRL that started this whole fiasco. Putting it all together took alot longer than I had anticipated. I numbered all the legs for ease in putting them on their respective corners. Through some sort of massive brain fart I completely neglected to do the same for the bracing. :tb-wacky: Hopefully I will be able to put down some foam and track tomorrow!
Alright, so tomorrow and the next day came and went. But I had a short day today and did some scavenging around the local Lowes and Home Depot. Hows this for $10? Since I was using a $50 debit/rebate card I decided to go ahead and get a new shop/vac and these long bladed razor knives for cutting the foam too. Plan is that the razor knives will effortlessly cut the foam into general shapes with little or no particle fallout. Once I start carving with my dad's keyhole saw, an old steak knife, and a shurform rasp, I will have a dedicated vacuum to suck up foam bits for eventual recycling into use on the layout, as rocks or whatever size they may be. Can't use the house vacuum for that. Not bad deal for only having to spend about $2 in cash to cover sales tax. Well, in the process of sending a donation to the baord, I kind of stumbled across the fact I had a place to blog. Instead of using twice the bandwidth I'm goign to update that from now on. You can find it here: http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/blog.php?b=2029 I'll also put the address in my signature. Thanks to you guys who followed along so far!
