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Have you ever scratch-built something and you really felt you were on your way to having it completed and than suddenly you realized you over looked something? Well it's been happening to me! I've been working on a wooden trestle with embunkments(?) in to the scenary and after having the darn thing nearly completed, I realized my rolling stock won't clear the corner of a wall I had constructed!:mad: Please, lend me your support!!!
Has this ever happened to any of you guys??? I'm realitively new to this, so guess I must persevere!!!

Twilight
 
Hello Twilight,

I really hope you don't expect me to admit in public that I recently had to take a pair of side cutters to my permanently installed station awning for that very same reason.

That would suggest that my 50+ years of modelling has taught me naught.
 
I believe it is a learning process. We try something and it either works or it doesn't . If it works, great. If it doesn't we have learned something which will stand us in good stead the next time we try something else.
If we don't try without a risk of something going awry then progress deminishes. My mother always said to me "Try, try again. If it doesn't work the first time , do it over". I can't tell you how many times I have torn apart what took hours to put together. The only crime would be not to do it again.
 
It happened to me. I was scratch-building a timber deck truss bridge and there wasnt enough clearance underneath it. I had to scrap it and make a regular truss bridge instead. Fortunately, I only made a little bit of progress and went to check on that.
 
Yeah, me too..

After scratchbuilding a wooden station platform in
N with scale lumber (in situ.. my first mistake!) I discovered
that while my diesel locomotives ran past beautifully
all of my steam locomotives running gear hit the edge
and derail. so a LOT of time with some sandpaper fixed
it

Graham
 
Where I usually get into trouble is reassembling something I took apart. The pickup wipers on N scale locos in particular tend to be out of place after assembly, requiring I tear it all down and start over. In fact last night, I was working on an 0-6-0, cleaning/oiling/fixing/improving, and 2 or 3 times I put the drivers back in with the pickups out of place (slow learner!). :curse: :curse: :curse:

Well, ya just gotta take a deep breath and start over when that happens, weather it's a half hour lost or a week. :(
 
Spent hours putting in wood pilings between the creek and the track. Even checked it for clearance using a F-7 and a 86 foot flat car. Got it all painted and weathered. Went highballing around it with a GP7 and the front steps hit it derailing the GP and dropping several cars all the way to the floor. Spent more hours reworking it to clear the GP7. DASH
 
Been there! I made a tunnel entrance and made certain it was OK on clearances but I neglected to test a last minute addition retaining wall to the side that caught locomotives as they rounded the curve into the tunnel. You are not alone! :)
Ralph
 
Thanks everyone for your replies!:) Didn't have the heart to correct the wall last night, but it's on my list of things to do, tonight!!!

It's funny I tested my little saddle tanker(all I'm running on this layout) by the wall and it was fine!!! So I was all excited on how well it was working and looked! But then I add the the box car!:eek: :eek: :eek: ....:curse: :curse: :curse: And it was back to the drawing board!!!


Thanks again everyone!!!!:)

Twilight
 
Well I once took a loco apart to clean it, put it all back together and it ran perfect. -- Then I noticed I had some tiny nuts and bolts left over. I still have them LOL
Shamus
 
Originally posted by rebel
you old pros ever hear of a clearance car
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Them cost money that can also be used for super detail parts, scenery, rolling stock,... Some people buy tools, some people use borrowed tools.:D :D :D DASH
 
Originally posted by rebel
you old pros ever hear of a clearance car
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Got one o' those, 90 scale feet long, 20 scale feet high and 16 scale feet wide and the club auto-racks still manage to find things to hang up on:curse: :cry: :oops: :eek: :rolleyes: 'Tis the thrill o' comin' out right just once that keeps me building.`

I'm pretty good in the scenery/building dept, can't recall anything of real note. All my stuff happens under the hood, like the time I inadvertently wired a decoder in around the drive shaft---twice---on the same loco. Or when I hooked up 4 of those beautiful bright white 2mm LEDs at $6 a pop to a new decoder and remembering they're rated at 1 1/2 volts---after---power was applied.:oops:
 
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