Handful of .040 x ~ .040 strips in and I’m already questioning my sanity.
I did acquire a cricut expression a while ago and I’m tempted to try and figure it out now to see if I can score strips better.
Note, this is now entering the 1st stage of Craig’s procrastinating/ process.
Glad to hear there are still Scouts in America. I thought I had heard they had gone bankrupt.
lol last year I thought I was going to go insane cutting the strips for the lap siding
A smarter person would go blow the $30 budget and buy a ton of PVC lumber and then mill out the raised edges with a dato blade/blades, but no this dumby decided to cut strips of styrene…
I know a Cricut can score styrene, I just don’t know if this mode can. It’s a really old version and I think you can only use the preprogrammed stuff and not upload your own design.
Warmed up enough to venture out in the garage again. Started slicing and gluing up the strips for the sheet metal seams. It’s not 100% perfect, but at this point I’m just ready to move forward. Spaced them at 2’, and then used some brass tube for the spacing for the next one. Nothing too fancy.
That will look really good.
I tried that. While I still think there is much to be said for using the Cricut to do this, I found it much easier to just knuckle down and cut it by hand. I did make a little jig for doing it which was a good idea.
I’ve just been using this balsa wood striper thing. It’s better than freehand, and probably a lot safer than the mini table saw (and a lot less dust/plastic chips)
Umm what is happening to you???
Aliens…
Or the fact that I’ve only been working on this stupid project for 14 years and want actually get it done.
I wanted this entire thing done by the end of 2023 but that didn’t happen. So now the goal is the end of 2024.
Early onset dementia. Craig doing ANYTHING that us not 100% perfect has to be the result of some disease.
The scary thing is it might actually be true… All the males on my paternal side have had dementia. And according to my wife I forget what she tells me.
On a serious note, I’m kinda getting burnt out and just want to get the dang building done. I don’t want to push it off another 15 years. I gave myself the goal of my 40th birthday ( in 2 years) to have my layout built and structures done. It might actually happen as I don’t have that many buildings to make.
Oh man Craig. Sorry. Just get it done and run trains
I half joke half seriously tell my wife she has 30 more good years left with me before I go down hill. It is really strange watching the genetics at work.
Lowering your standards from 100% to 97.5% isn’t actually on set of dementia!!!
You will be fine , and you will give your wife 39.5 years before she notices! Actually praying that it doesn’t happen to you. And at 105 you are still are running trains on the layout!
no, no, no. having 1.75 times your age, i can assure you, THIS has nothing to do with dementia.
that is a perfectly normal auto-defense mecanism of the male body against excessive exponation to one and the same female voice. 
My 100% perfection is others 75% meh, thats why I have so much stuff finished …just saying 
Is this the wrong time to ask for a pony ?
Derby in 12 hours, and I finally got my car done this evening! So now onto the fun MIK build.
Figured since it was late, I’d download the roof vent file for printing and start working on sketching up a roll up door based off the LEGO roll up door.
LEGO version I’m copying.
The pins snap into the proceeding section making it expandable and flexible.
Not sure how well I can get this to print, but if I’ve got the printer fired up for the vents, why not throw on a few test pieces and see if it works. The pins on the outside, roll in a track. I could either print the track, or just take some styrene and cut a groove to fit the ‘pin’.
Print , print ,print, something like the door tracks sound simple and way easier to print than to carve or glue up!
