Getting Distracted.

The problem with being a railway modeller is that there is so much to what we do. We build the foundations (baseboards), create the landscape, lay the track and then to some degree or other, make the buildings that give it form and then potentially make all the locos and stock that run on our railway!

Don't mention people.

Is it any wonder then with some many parts to our hobby, it's easy to become distracted. I know I do.

I enjoy making the buildings, always have and did so before I actually had a layout. Of course a railway is no good without stock to run and it needs quite a bit, even on a very small layout. It's all interesting, so I find that I might be working on a building that's part of the station area, I get to thinking about the loco that's currently in the siding close by and perhaps it needs a bit of detailing, or even another loco just like it. So off we go at a tangent planning this, or fiddling with it, or preparing a crew to fit the cab.

Happened to me recently as finishing off one loco, which used a Hornby chassis, I got looking at a spare donor loco I had and thought I could 'do something' with the body. Really should have stayed working on the much needed station building. So, one butchered 00 saddle tank later, with a new plastic cab and brass roof, new turned chimney and various other new bits, there was a new 0-16.5 loco.

It only took a few days ..... but I still need to add some little details, oh and a crew. The station still remains unfinished.

This is a glimpse of what came from the distraction -

But of course I got distracted with making the warehouse at the other end of the station. Maybe it's just what we do when we work on this diverse thing called a model railway?