In today’s post I consolidate replies to many different previous messages in one post:
– I never answered Matt’s question re: does MILS and PennLUG’s train standard work together? The answer is yes, they’re both designed for a 32×32 baseplate, I would suspect they had the former in mind when they designed the latter.
– I am familiar with brick-built roads, I’ve seen a lot of different ones over the years and some are definitely better than others. Nobody’d mentioned a standard for building them, so I just came up with one on my own. It’s only 8-wide, because I used the rest of the space for other things, so it’s more of a lane or a side-street than a road. It’s definitely one-way (unless you live in certain parts of Pittsburgh with narrow alleys, in which case it’s one of those ‘I hope I get to the end before anybody comes the other way’ roads). The other problem, though, was that a brick-built road would definitely be higher than the existing sidewalk, unless the road was dropped lower than the top MILS plate, which introduces all kinds of other problems. I didn’t want to boost my PC up another whole ‘nother brick in height cause I didn’t think anybody else would do that. And I’m not super worried about my curb matching up either, I only mentioned in case somebody wanted to deliberately match it.
– I am totally on board with doing a test set up at Josh’s house, I’d been meaning to bring it up but I lost the thread where it had been mentoned and then Greg beat me to it. Has a start time been established? I would need Josh’s address, I seem to remember at some point he sent out the list of contact info but I am not sure what I did with it. I would assume then that Josh has the necessary floor space at his place for set up. I don’t know if he has the necessary tables, I’m prepared to do it on the floor despite my old decrepit body.
– Somebody (Tim maybe?) had mentioned getting to the convention hall early – 3:00ish or so – in order to do as much preparation as possible off to the side before they let us set up the tables at 5. If it helps, I can also plan on showing up at that time (and may anyway in order to avoid traffic).
– I’ve gotten a lot of work done on my 6 baseplates of layout, and they were specifically designed and fit together to conform to Evan’s plan. I have a double row of train track that’s baseplated and MILSed and I’ve done landscaping and put structures around the tracks based on that plan, so de-plating and de-MILSing is not an option at this point.
I think that’s all I got for now. I have some more building to do before Saturday but I’m psyched.