WHAT PROJECT(S) HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING OFF?

Dusting. I'm serious. Climbing up there and bending over to dust every tree and vehicle is not a project I am savoring. And I've chickened-out several times since the Holidays' entertaining was finished.

For example, these sites are within reach from the viewing aisle, but most of the layout requires a climb aboard.

The trains themselves, particularly the passenger cars, can all be brought up to the front edge of the layout for dusting.          FrankM.

I put off fixing my Acela... its sitting under the table all cold and lonely. Have to dig it out and .... ah who am I kidding, its time to get ready to go to York!!

22 building kits...most have been here at least 1 year

Biggest thing I have been putting off is changing my control panel around so I can start wiring switches and un- coupling tracks up. Also I have a ton of building kits to do. So what do I do..... I start a new layout in the basement so I don't have to do those things..................Paul

@ Moonson       Very nice detailing on your layout! 

Dusting the layout, and cleaning the basement so that I can show friends.

installing my dcs wifi,,maybe this weekend,,,maybe

PAUL ROMANO posted:

@ Moonson       Very nice detailing on your layout! 

Thank you, sir. I appreciate your approval.

FrankM.

Continue wiring switch machines. I simply hate working under the layout. 

Romiller 

Putting off 2 things....

1) Putting "water" in my lake.

2) Adding sidewalks to my town.

I probably need to bite the bullet and just get em done.

-Eric Siegel

I've been putting off my required colonoscopy.

I have plans to add sounds to some rolling stock, I put the projects on hold when gunrunner started working on a command sound board. It would be better than my usual sound source. 

Also, putting off making sidewalk for my future downtown. 

Moonson, agree with Paul - nice photos - so the layout's a little dusty.

I am simply trying to draw a new layout so I can build the bench work and install my TT and RH.

Taking down my outside suspended layout, and beginning a garden rail road. I have been putting this off for two years now, but I think it's time. I have a location selected for a starter layout that is fairly flat, and allows room for expansion in the future. I probably have more then enough track for the site I have in mind. I am also debating converting one or two locos to battery power, to eliminate the need for track power. I do have the necessary equipment, so I may opt for a dual setup. This will allow me to add structures, as the suspended layout would only be suited for a back drop or facade type buildings. 

I have three wood bridges, and a steel open deck girder bridge that I would like to incorporate in the proposed layout as well. The bridges are scratch built, and will accommodate two lines, so they will fit in to the expansion plan. 

Don

Finish my FEF-1.

Starting my layout...

Finishing the detailing on some of my locos.

Finishing my portable layout. Just need to finish the scenery.

Building my Union Pacific articulated dining car. Have the parts, paint and decals and it's started(barely).

Detailing my Budweiser brewery.

Finishing the detailing and custom components of my Lionel coal mine kit.

Building my rail grinder/rail cleaning car.

Too much stuff going on for the last few years, so O-gauge is on the back burner for now.

Hot Water posted:

I've been putting off my required colonoscopy.

Do it !   One of the best sleeps I've ever had, albeit short.  I was so pi**ed when the nurse woke me.....

Hot Water posted:

I've been putting off my required colonoscopy.

PLEASE, don't put this off any longer. Sadly, one of my co-workers did, and his cancer was caught too late. In just two short months he was gone. 

Getting under the table and organizing all the wires. This will be no small undertaking. Then expanding the layout another 4 or 5 foot, but my wife and I have to reorganize the basement before that can happen. Plus I'm still planning on how I'm going to do it.

Lionel Grandpa posted:

Hot Water posted:

I've been putting off my required colonoscopy.

PLEASE, don't put this off any longer. Sadly, one of my co-workers did, and his cancer was caught too late. In just two short months he was gone. 

I agree. My mother passed away last year from colon cancer because she wouldn't let them do a colonoscopy. She was 94 so it was going to happen anyway, but it didn't have to be that way. I just had a colonoscopy and they said I was fine. The next one is in six years. Have it done.

PSU1980 posted:

Moonson, agree with Paul - nice photos - so the layout's a little dusty.

Thank you.

I don't mind any of what is involved in creating and maintaining a layout, actually, but some of it does take being in "the right mood" to tackle. It is all supposed to be play, anyolways, isn't it, so when i feel it getting perilously close to work, I try to avoid that as much as possible.

FrankM.

I've got some serious dusting to do.

Last York I bought another station to put on my layout. Bought the station, wired it up, did a little customization but, 6 months later, the people and stuff to populate it with are still in the original package under the layout from that same York trip!

All of 'em.  I am a highly skilled procrastinator.

Pete

Moonson posted:

Dusting. I'm serious. ...

i have a Miele vacuum with their "micro" kit accessory...

not sure how it works, but i have used it to suck dust off very light pieces without disturbing them one bit, though i have stuck a piece of very fine mesh screen at the attachment end, 'just in case'.  the much lighter (than the main vac) long hose also helps in reaching high or difficult places.

good luck...gary

Too many to list!

overlandflyer posted:

Moonson posted:

Dusting. I'm serious. ...

i have a Miele vacuum with their "micro" kit accessory...

not sure how it works, but i have used it to suck dust off very light pieces without disturbing them one bit, though i have stuck a piece of very fine mesh screen at the attachment end, 'just in case'.  the much lighter (than the main vac) long hose also helps in reaching high or difficult places.

good luck...gary

Thanks, Gary, for your thoughtfulness. However, I do not even use a little computer vacuum cleaner because none of my groundcovers are glued down, so any such device would strip Moon Township more than clean.

FrankM.

Lionel Grandpa posted:

Hot Water posted:

I've been putting off my required colonoscopy.

PLEASE, don't put this off any longer. Sadly, one of my co-workers did, and his cancer was caught too late. In just two short months he was gone. 

Hot Water-

That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard you say...

I was lucky went in when I was 49. Sure enough they caught before it became a deadly problem...

Do not put this off....

Work on an N-scale layout project has been repeated derailed by O-gauge diversions.

Moonson posted:

Dusting. I'm serious. Climbing up there and bending over to dust every tree and vehicle is not a project I am savoring. And I've chickened-out several times since the Holidays' entertaining was finished.

FrankM.

Frank,

Was taking pictures at a friends layout for a presentation. No matter how well we checked, dusted, and re-checked there were still spider webs when we compiled the images.

Solution? Captioned them as prototypical on model train layouts!

Cleaning up all the junk around my layout and workbench so I can work on the layout and trains.

My problem is working on my entire layout. Since my heart surgery last summer I just haven't been in the mood to go downstairs and work on my layout. I have been putting LED's in my passenger cars on the dining room table though. I still love trains but I have lost some of the "spark".

Glad you are doing well Dave. We all lose a little spark now and then.

At least two structures remain unfinished.....one, a large grain elevator with an unusual access for wagons and trucks....I built the large part of the building model  several years ago, but I still haven't found a photo of the front of the building, which burned decades ago.  Using one of two HO kits for SW Colorado's Red Mountain's National Belle Mine, I started scratch building an O scale version, and then met the architect and a kit builder who had been involved in restoring the prototype structure that is there now, and he said neither HO kit was correct.   He has produced other HO, and, I think, one O scale SW Colorado mine kit but not that one.  I need to regain my enthusiasm for it.  I am also mulling over scratchbuilding from plans of a larger coaling tower kit, a smaller one suitable for a short line, but have delayed starting that.  I have built two O scale gas electric kits, but have not begun the third, the scale length Walthers C&NW kit.  As for one of the others, for MoPac, I have found that a very similar gas electric operated on a western road and is a very easy kitbash.  And then there is a McKeen car, an inspection engine, a Baldwin steam coach (and/or maybe, a Unit-Stanley steam coach), and an earlier steam loco/coach creation, with a boiler and a flared stack sticking out of the front of a passenger coach.  I need to get cracking.....so many prototypes, so little time....

I've been putting off finishing the last few switches. I was going full tilt a few months ago, and dropped the ball, in favor of other stuff. I really want to polish that off this month.

need to get back to this project.....

Steamer posted:

need to get back to this project.....

Cool. What is it going to be???

MIKATT1 posted:

My problem is working on my entire layout. Since my heart surgery last summer I just haven't been in the mood to go downstairs and work on my layout. I have been putting LED's in my passenger cars on the dining room table though. I still love trains but I have lost some of the "spark".

Different interests and activities for different times in our lives. Medical tribulations can give us whole new perspectives on what matters to us most, somewhat, and a little bit, or not at all any more. IMHO.

FrankM.

Building my basement empire.