Good luck for mid May. Sounds/looks very much like deadlines for architectural models. Have had too many of these, but always delivered on time.

Don't get bogged down in detail, go for mass. Buy a stack of trees. Growies will hide & distract a multitude of sins. A dodgy model will be saved by landscaping.


Have an absolute deadline a few days before it is required including transport & handling issues (& send an invoice to yourself for payment before delivery!).

Look at the job as a business situation & you will get there.

Repeat, go for mass & not detail.

Did a few models for Mirvac, Sydney Olympics. Impossible deadlines, more to the point stuffed drawings.

Mirvac said mark up the drawings so we can fix them. Other half being a teacher, I used red pen. I used thick texta. It was a bloodbath at the minimum!

Next meeting to fix drawings. I said Sunday morning 4am would be fine.

The bloodbath at 8am Monday morning meeting resolved many fingers out of.... !

Got more jobs in the long run for being honest, & being firm & polite... & delivering on time (to our delivery date).

One of a few Sydney Olympic models:
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Architectural/train layouts, there is a lot for mundane work. Leave that to the end of the day where possible. Try to do more of the work that requires thinking in the morning. Eg electrical wiring.

Don't fluff around late into the night, your productivity will fall off a cliff. Stop at a designated time every night.

Get up a bit earlier if need be with a fresh mind. You will get 5 times the work done.


If spray painting (150g cans as I do) put all the bits on a piece of packing cardboard, one colour per board, with lengths of rolled over masking tape to form double sided tape to hold them down.

You should get all your buildings' painting done in a morning if well organised. Paint a few spare bits while at it.

Hi!

Here’s a short of the current progress. Exhibition’s in six weeks.

https://youtube.com/shorts/sDAqajTq7Ro

-Eino

Thank you so much!

Taking the layout to an exhibition today. First time for me ever.

BR,
Eino

Hey guys!

The exhibition went great! Locos run 8 hours straight without a single problem!

Lot of nice audience. Will make a video later.

Thank you for all the kind words!

BR,
Eino

Hi!

Turns out that neither I or my wife (yes she went with me) didn't shoot that much usable footage, but here's a short: https://youtube.com/shorts/nWyFUAm_Y-8

Yes I'm using Märklin track exclusively. I am a huge Märklin fan after all and of course have H0 track also.

I'm too afraid to even consider getting a steam loco only to find out that it won't stay on my track. I do have curved gradients that continue with straight level track which is always a point for derailments.

All my locos are powered. No dummies. I try to make a multiple unit train with locos that run roughly the same speed, putting the faster one as lead loco and the other as trailing. Can't wait for AZL SD50, 60, 60M models to be released this summer so I can get two SD60Ms which will run exactly the same speed.

I really like the AZL locos. They have dual flywheel motors, traction tires and ofcourse great pickup as most locos have six axles. The flywheels really contribute on getting the loco over dirty sports without the train stopping. I drive with Rokuhan RC02 pulse width modulated speed controllers which essentially give me a digital loco running characteristics. I hope Märklin will jump that train too and make some new US line models. Although the GP38-2 is made by AZL for Märklin and I guess that would propably be the case in the future too...

I have no experience with MTL locos but I hear there are good and bad ones.

BR,
Eino

Hi,

My RC02 are fixed to the board with double adhesive tape so I can’t get to the bottom to see the specs.

However I have run four AZL locos at the same time.

-Eino