10-01-2009, 02:33 AM
Steamtrains Wrote:I think "dithering" is an integral part of the hobby...
For some people it is the hobby.
However, ballasting is not dithering, nor is re-arranging things to get the "look" you want. You were actively advancing the state of your layout as you ballasted, even though doing so was merely a means of putting off the problem of the structure arrangement. If you had been truly dithering, you would have accomplished absolutely nothing, except perhaps, to convince yourself that you were incapable of doing whatever it was that was holding you back in the first place. Instead, by doing "something", not only did that "something" get done, but the problem more-or-less solved itself. (Well, it didn't really - you solved it!) 
Wayne