For Those Who Could Not Envision It...
(As mentioned previously, please do not let Lukey or Kenzie know what they are getting for Christmas... I'm only posting it here because they cannot yet read.) In my previous blog post, I wrote that I had started working on Lukey's Christmas present... an HO scale train set in a dog-bone shape with a donut hole. Well, for those who could not envision what I was talking about, here it is after cutting the rigid foam to shape... It is looking good! I wanted a free-form, flowing type of thing rather than just a rigid rectangle or even a perfect oval... I want the landscape to roll and flow with a nice train running through it. That area adjacent to the train station on the right is for a future town... maybe a couple of small houses, a firehouse, a gas station... then a road coming toward the front of the photo and leading around to that little freight station on the left side... and, I left some room over there for some other building or detail. With a little town a