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Llanmaddog can't move with me. It was designed, and the baseboard cut, very specifically for my office here. There's nowhere it will fit in the new house. I'm not even taking the IKEA-hack units which provide most of the support.
It's possible that at some point I'll work out how to piece it back together somehow. Or just save one of the ends, as it's on two separate boards. Some I'm taking those, and putting them into storage. But separating the boards has meant cutting the track (because it's glued down around the join, in areas I thought weren't going to be ballasted) and that felt very final.
But before I did that, I put the buildings I had on it, where they might have been had I ever got around to landscaping it. And posed (most of) the people I had. And set up some trains. And two of the studio lights I got from camera club. (I didn't mention the camera club folding, did I? Well, it did, and it had some equipment from back in non-virtual meeting times, which was offered to members for disposal, and I found myself with a quartet of studio lights, just when I'm trying to declutter. Anyway.) And took some shots, to give an idea of what might have been, had I not overreached myself in terms of the size of the landscaping job and the reliability of tiny trains, and in particular automated systems. I think it was the failure to get the automated exchange system at the Aberefail end working that destroyed my enthusiasm for the project.
Anyway, here are some of those photos, together with three from earlier, and some of the dismantling.
It's possible that at some point I'll work out how to piece it back together somehow. Or just save one of the ends, as it's on two separate boards. Some I'm taking those, and putting them into storage. But separating the boards has meant cutting the track (because it's glued down around the join, in areas I thought weren't going to be ballasted) and that felt very final.
But before I did that, I put the buildings I had on it, where they might have been had I ever got around to landscaping it. And posed (most of) the people I had. And set up some trains. And two of the studio lights I got from camera club. (I didn't mention the camera club folding, did I? Well, it did, and it had some equipment from back in non-virtual meeting times, which was offered to members for disposal, and I found myself with a quartet of studio lights, just when I'm trying to declutter. Anyway.) And took some shots, to give an idea of what might have been, had I not overreached myself in terms of the size of the landscaping job and the reliability of tiny trains, and in particular automated systems. I think it was the failure to get the automated exchange system at the Aberefail end working that destroyed my enthusiasm for the project.
Anyway, here are some of those photos, together with three from earlier, and some of the dismantling.
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Date: 2024-12-02 05:37 pm (UTC)It's sad that it won't fit in the new house, but perhaps you'll find time/energy for a new project instead.
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Date: 2024-12-02 05:43 pm (UTC)The T-gauge Table Top Track is now boxed up and will hopefully survive well enough, and there's still plenty to do on that. And there's certainly going to be opportunities for the Llanmaddog buildings to become a diorama.