Sometimes I wonder why I picked up the knife.
For most of the afternoon today, I would do whatever needed to be done (cooking, washing, reading stories etc) and then race back to the modelling board in an attempt to at least finish the cab so I could write a blog entry that didn’t rely on prototype photos or general off-topic ramblings. I’ll say this for blogging: it keeps me focused.
Anyway, attempt one was going fine, after the boys were sleeping off lunch I started to cut. I cut the windows in the way the experts describe: cut diagonals, score the outline, and snap the windows through. Everything went fine until…
Wouldn’t be so bad but this was a few seconds after I discovered the window was too far to the left. Or maybe it was the right. Either way it was a dud.
After washing up and emptying some of the bins I tried again. This time I decided to be smart (ie lazy) and just score around the existing cab end. It looked great when scored, but then something went weird and the window moved towards the centre of it’s own accord.
I folded it to see if it would work, but it was clearly another dud. Maybe I should take up Gn15 forestry engines. At least they aren’t supposed to have straight lines…
Gn15… perhaps 7/8ths even. Bigger, easier to see. That’s the direction I’ve gone lately.
Hehe… tempting. I’ve been seriously wondering about 1:32 on HO track: I even have a chassis put aside for this, but I really want to make a modern image line and I think 1:55 is the right scale for this. 1:43 is nice as well, but the stock is way too big for a micro at the moment. Besides the chassis would look great under a 1:55 scale shunter…
Understood on the modern theme. The reason I prefer “fictional” over modern as it is an avenue to “escape” the current real world. As a trucker I’ve been to a dozen different intermodal rail yards around the US and have gotten the chance to see the real and now up close and personal. I value the escape that “playing with trains” provides. It’s theraputic.