Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Upper Deck Benchwork completed. . .



Here's a rather crude panorama view of the layout room (click on the photo for the "big picture") with the upper level and lighting valence in place. I'm still waiting for a couple of the T4 ultra-slim lights to be delivered from LightingXP (they've got a new website; same great service and prices, and free shipping in the US for orders over $75). I haven't painted the backdrop on the just-built helix "blob" blue yet. Lance was over and we sorted through the remnants of lumber and decided what to keep and what to consign to the dump.

We should be ready to start with the lower level benchwork next week. I'm still hoping to get the lower level benchwork in place by the end of February; at this pace, we shouldn't have any problem meeting that self-imposed deadline (I want to get that done before the boys start their spring baseball leagues in March--time will be at a premium then).

4 comments:

Ray P said...

Blair

It's really starting to come together, very impressive.

Ray P

B. Kooistra said...

Thanks Ray.
Got all the lights now and they're in place; plywood is all cut and ready to install on the lower level. I laid some temporary track to connect the helix with the rest of that layout and have had great fun today doing "load testing" to see what a 49 class can pull up the grade--the rolling characteristics of the "ready to roll" cars vary by quite a bit!

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Unknown said...

I agree very inspiring stuff.