Follow the progress of construction (and sometimes destruction) of my N-scale model train layout.

May 1, 2006

Update

I been horrible with updating this. Anyway I have lots of new switches. 4 right ones to be precise. I have installed 2 of them. I have Atlas manual #4 left but I need to get a custom-line left since I think the manual one is ugly with the big switch machine on the side.

I also have been working on scratch building things out of ceral boxes. At first I tried to construct the indvidual structural elements (beams, walls, etc.) and assemble them togethor. That took too long and the buildings get sloppy very fast if you are not extremly precise.

I moved on to tab and slot based construction after that. That worked alot better. The newest thing is just to cut the shape of the building with and then tape the joints. This makes the joints cleaner since there isn't the few millimeters of distortion where the begining of one segement joins another from the thickness of the cardboard. Card stock would be a much better construction material.