Work Progresses

on the layout.

After several false starts I've finally nailed down where I want all of the downtown buildings to go. I had to buy a couple more corner buildings but now it looks like everything is in place as it should be.

Now I'm cleaning and painting the buildings before detailing their interiors and finally placing them on the layout. I'm also looking at interior lights for them, but that is a project that may have to wait for a while.

I also have to get some of the DPM Modular Building System walls to finish out the tool making factory (although in the final take it's probably going to be some other kind of manufactory). I have the DPM planning package that I've used to mock it up and I like the way it looks like it's going to turn out.

I also have to scratch-build a scrap metal baler and some sort of loading system to take the place of the scrap yard. The plan is for the manufactory to wrap around the "scrapyard" with the scrap from the manufacturing processes being fed into the baler and then the bales loaded into the waiting gondolas. I'm thinking about some sort of chute, something like you find on the coal mine kits to load the boney (rock that has had the ore processed out of it). It's going to have to be on an angle, which makes things interesting.

Pics when complete.