For the last several years I’ve not had a dedicated modelling space. This means that I have to beg, borrow, and often steal space and time from the family to build, detail and otherwise do anything model.
Chris Mears on his Prince Street blog wrote about this back in 2013.It is a great article and I thought I’d share it with you here.
I’ve mentioned the “5-20-5” concept before and the more I think about it the more I like it. The idea itself refers to three distinct blocks of time totalling thirty minutes and representing an acheivable length of time to either build a model or operate your model railway. It’s based on things like the length of a typical television program or time we might otherwise spend surfing around on the internet and asked if this might be enough time to invest in this great hobby. We often complain that we simply don’t have the time to build a model or can’t imagine having enough time just sit down and run a train.
The first block of time is about five minutes in length. Take five minutes, get out some tools and a model and get ready to work on it. Obviously building a dozen turnouts might be out of the…
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