12-14-2011, 10:36 AM
Progress on Vigdis' diorama continues, now she's started scratchbuilding the trestle. All the ties are cut out from a larger piece of styrene, and lightly sanded to get a wood grain like surface. So much for the "Not in a million years will I do scratchbuilding, it's way too difficult!" statement she gave me a while back 
![[Image: 2044_w1200.jpg]](http://www.hjemstad.no/pics/2011/12/2044_w1200.jpg)
As for my own progress, well... I finished wiring the first section about a week ago, but when I checked all the connections with an ohm-meter I found a couple of bad spots, which means I have to do some of it over again. I also discovered that one of the accessory switches to the turnout motors had died while the layout was in storage (don't ask me how :? ), so I'll have to rip it out along with the motor and replace it with a new one. That kinda killed the enthusiasm for a while, so instead I've downloaded and installed Apache web server with MySQL and PHP, trying to learn Joomla for my new web site.
Svein
As for my own progress, well... I finished wiring the first section about a week ago, but when I checked all the connections with an ohm-meter I found a couple of bad spots, which means I have to do some of it over again. I also discovered that one of the accessory switches to the turnout motors had died while the layout was in storage (don't ask me how :? ), so I'll have to rip it out along with the motor and replace it with a new one. That kinda killed the enthusiasm for a while, so instead I've downloaded and installed Apache web server with MySQL and PHP, trying to learn Joomla for my new web site.
Svein