This turned out to be a learning experience, I've learnt that I probably need to redo the whole thing at some stage. Here's a quick video shot yesterday once I finally connected the main track. Terrible video, I know, I was in a hurry.
The two little overly-yellow sheds need to be reprinted, as the paintwork is horrible, and I've mentioned before that I'll reprint the ticket office with a smaller overhang so you can actually see what it is. The big shed is still just a placeholder until I find another way to build it. Power poles, signals etc are yet to come.
The wagons etc will eventually be weathered -- everything at the real museum is rusty as. I've been picking up the odd wagon on Trademe, I did say I was going to 3D-print everything, but they aren't really important. I will continue to work on the printed carriage models, although I'm happy with my first attempt there's a lot I can improve.
I really have to come to terms with what this layout is -- running a train from one end to the other is about 30 seconds of fun (double that for the return journey), so not much point to it, other than the experience, and as a static diorama.
The second video shows the loco running, yes, I did hit a tree with the camera. As the controller is at the far end, I can't easily use that and the camera at the same time. When I finish the whole thing, I'll get my son to make a proper video, he works at Weta Workshop doing that sort of thing anyway. As NZFF's video embeds don't go full screen, best viewed on Youtube.
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