Prairie Tank
Western Thunderer
Earlier this year I decided to quit model railwaying.
This decision was, in the main, down to being totally fed up of paying top prices for 'professionals' to build me inferior, cheap short cut items. Some of which looked great in photo's but under close inspection were very very flawed.
My way of railway modelling had always been to concentrate on what I am not to bad at and to paint figures to sell to commission people to make what I was pants at. I now realise that this plan was fundamentally flawed and I had made a very bad decision when it came to applying it to the what I wanted.
Any way, after kicking my heels and feeling fairly miserable for a couple of months and after encouragement from a few of my railway modelling friends and a 'severe' talking to by Mrs PT (who was probably getting fed up of seeing me with a face like a wet weekend) I decided to take the plunge, rip up what had been done and start my Scale 7 lay out again, this time doing just about every thing by myself with just a little bit of help from my friends.
While viewing this thread, remember that most of the things in it I have never done before, so please cut me some slack.
John
This decision was, in the main, down to being totally fed up of paying top prices for 'professionals' to build me inferior, cheap short cut items. Some of which looked great in photo's but under close inspection were very very flawed.
My way of railway modelling had always been to concentrate on what I am not to bad at and to paint figures to sell to commission people to make what I was pants at. I now realise that this plan was fundamentally flawed and I had made a very bad decision when it came to applying it to the what I wanted.
Any way, after kicking my heels and feeling fairly miserable for a couple of months and after encouragement from a few of my railway modelling friends and a 'severe' talking to by Mrs PT (who was probably getting fed up of seeing me with a face like a wet weekend) I decided to take the plunge, rip up what had been done and start my Scale 7 lay out again, this time doing just about every thing by myself with just a little bit of help from my friends.
While viewing this thread, remember that most of the things in it I have never done before, so please cut me some slack.
John
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