Exciting coverage of the On30 Okefenokee Swamp Railroad, a model train layout constructed in On30. This unusual layout is based on the prototype Hebard Cypress Company and the Waycross & Southern Railroad that occupied this large Georgia swamp in the 1920's.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
#001 03 Dr. Bank's Office - Drawings Complete
I finished up the drawings this morning in 3rd Plan It. Here are snapshots. Next, we'll need to buy some lumber and get busy!
As to NMRA AP scoring, I got my friend and NMRA SER Region AP Chairman Randall Watkins to pre-score this model. What? You haven't even built it. Well, yeah. But WHAT you are going to do, coupled with some assumptions, can yield a score! I always do this exercise just to make sure I am STARTING with a model that can win 87.5 points.
Per Randall Watkins:
More that 87.5,
CONSTRUCTION: Simple Model to Very Complex or Difficult.
I would say Somewhat Complex and your workmanship would be Bery Good.
27 to 29 Points. (my score 28)
DETAIL Complexity of Detail, I would say Moderate Detail and Easy-to Add
10 to 11 Points. (my score 11)
CONFORMITY: Do you have photos and/or plans, if no plans or documentation
a maximum of only 15 points. Your will have plans, the model will be Largely
prototypical to Completely Prototypical.
20 to 22 Points (my score 21)
FINISH & LETTERING:
Complexity is from Simple to Complex, this model i would say Moderate,
Your finishing would be Good to Better .
16 to 18 Points. (my score 17)
SCRATCH-BUILDING: (The good Part) The Complexity of this model would be Moderate
and Completely Scratch built.
13 Points (my score 13)
I would score it 90 points.
RW
Thanks, Randall! I scored it and got a 91, so we're in the ball park. Still not a lot of wiggle room, but judges usually score more flexibly than either I or Randall do. Actually, I'm a tough judge, but gladly took 88 points on a kit I built once.
I've been a model railroader all my life and never remember not having trains. I started out with an N-scale layout when I was five, moved in to HO until I was 30, switched to S scale for another few years, then to On30, HO and then On30 again!
Exciting coverage of the On30 Okefenokee Swamp Railroad, a model train layout constructed in On30. This unusual layout is based on the prototype Hebard Cypress Company and the Waycross & Southern Railroad that occupied this large Georgia swamp in the 1920's.
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