so, one of my plans for myself and the train club im a member of is...
to have some sort of reperesntation of Z scale T-Trak at the train shows every year.
i had asked the president of the club if he wanted me to propose to the club to make these modules (which would include allocating some fundage for it) at one of the meetings. he never got back with me.
i had handed him some paperwork from the T-TRAK site for Z scale T-Track, last december...
tried several times to bring it up in a meeting beause the club now owns some z scale train cars (no engine as of yet). and i got shelved for another meeting, many many meetings.
finally i just asked him, after a meeting if he wanted me to go ahead and make some then id have them to show the clu, for them to decide upon, or not.
thinking for that was, if they said there was no need for them, or "how would they be transfered, blah blah" or "who would monitor them, blah blah blha" id have them, regardless, and when the club wated to use them, id have them for that reason...
took long enough to get my z scale INTO this club to begin with, but thats another long story for another post...
so, as soon as he agreed to allow mw to just go-ahead and make them for myself to show the club, my next issue was...how would i get them done? craig has no tools to cut anything with...(i really do need to get him some tools for holidays, just build up a set of tools).
i was talking about this at one of the last meetings--or was it when we visited him at his house? i dont remember now, lol (within 3 months) and one of the guys (who i adore! LOVE HIM!) said hed be willing to cut the modules for me...
so ive been waiting for a paycheck that was free and not seriously committed to any funds so much...
and i emailed this guy.
asked if he had looked over those plans and had an estimate for me for cost of materials, and labor included to cut this stuff...
he emailed me back, said he thinks he has most of the materails on hand at his place, and says he thinks to cut them, hed do it for $10-15 per module...not too bad a rate. heck, im not even sure what the cost for materials would be so his qotes fine with me...
anyway, hes gonna cut everything.
i told him id be willing to assemble it, to give me something to do...
then we have to think about track, and purchasing Z scale track.
ive been looking for Z scale structures...
found a CD for sale on Ebay that has over 150 z scale building plan for papaer modules on it..
i was thinking of printing up the digrams, and then either gluing them to blocks of wood the size they are, or cutting styrene and using the print as a template, might just be easier to glue them to blocks...theyll need some stiffer structure if they will be moved around allot.
cd was being sold for 9.99...gonna have to get that.
this will be so good to have, because we can customize these independent modules anyway we want too, and have any season, any theme, any era wed like on them...
and they arnt that large to begin with...so portability is easy...
MICHELLE
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to have some sort of reperesntation of Z scale T-Trak at the train shows every year.
i had asked the president of the club if he wanted me to propose to the club to make these modules (which would include allocating some fundage for it) at one of the meetings. he never got back with me.
i had handed him some paperwork from the T-TRAK site for Z scale T-Track, last december...
tried several times to bring it up in a meeting beause the club now owns some z scale train cars (no engine as of yet). and i got shelved for another meeting, many many meetings.
finally i just asked him, after a meeting if he wanted me to go ahead and make some then id have them to show the clu, for them to decide upon, or not.
thinking for that was, if they said there was no need for them, or "how would they be transfered, blah blah" or "who would monitor them, blah blah blha" id have them, regardless, and when the club wated to use them, id have them for that reason...
took long enough to get my z scale INTO this club to begin with, but thats another long story for another post...
so, as soon as he agreed to allow mw to just go-ahead and make them for myself to show the club, my next issue was...how would i get them done? craig has no tools to cut anything with...(i really do need to get him some tools for holidays, just build up a set of tools).
i was talking about this at one of the last meetings--or was it when we visited him at his house? i dont remember now, lol (within 3 months) and one of the guys (who i adore! LOVE HIM!) said hed be willing to cut the modules for me...
so ive been waiting for a paycheck that was free and not seriously committed to any funds so much...
and i emailed this guy.
asked if he had looked over those plans and had an estimate for me for cost of materials, and labor included to cut this stuff...
he emailed me back, said he thinks he has most of the materails on hand at his place, and says he thinks to cut them, hed do it for $10-15 per module...not too bad a rate. heck, im not even sure what the cost for materials would be so his qotes fine with me...
anyway, hes gonna cut everything.
i told him id be willing to assemble it, to give me something to do...
then we have to think about track, and purchasing Z scale track.
ive been looking for Z scale structures...
found a CD for sale on Ebay that has over 150 z scale building plan for papaer modules on it..
i was thinking of printing up the digrams, and then either gluing them to blocks of wood the size they are, or cutting styrene and using the print as a template, might just be easier to glue them to blocks...theyll need some stiffer structure if they will be moved around allot.
cd was being sold for 9.99...gonna have to get that.
this will be so good to have, because we can customize these independent modules anyway we want too, and have any season, any theme, any era wed like on them...
and they arnt that large to begin with...so portability is easy...
MICHELLE
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