03-20-2010, 04:26 AM
Slowly it starts looking like a layout. Most of the track has been ballasted, some minor touching up is still needed here and there, but the sand is stuck well enough that I dare to run the trains now. The track could probably be cleaned a bit better, but most of the time most trains run without pushing them...
Around the 'parade'-section I started experimenting with ground cover, not entirely sure how good it looks, maybe the colours are a bit too bright. Eventually tree cover will follow.
To get the rest of the layout electrically functioning I continued working on the traverser fiddle yard. Might end up wiring every track individually to allow flexible storage and switching there. Having the control panel on the other side of the layout doesn't help (distance is about 2 metres).
Around the 'parade'-section I started experimenting with ground cover, not entirely sure how good it looks, maybe the colours are a bit too bright. Eventually tree cover will follow.
To get the rest of the layout electrically functioning I continued working on the traverser fiddle yard. Might end up wiring every track individually to allow flexible storage and switching there. Having the control panel on the other side of the layout doesn't help (distance is about 2 metres).
-norm