It appears there may be a glut of HE’s, but for what it’s worth, mine is currently motorized and ready to go.
Evan, is yours motorized? Because mine is built, but I don’t even have the power functions stuff… so it can be towed, but not powered, unless I get on that.
I basically don’t have track (except monorail), so I won’t be very useful in providing MILS plates (again, unless I go buy stuff…) Or, I can build plates but leave out the track, and borrow track from others…?
I love the MS Paint effects on the layout; can we clarify a few things about it?
– each green square represents a 32×32 (10″x10″) baseplate, yes? because tables are 30″ wide, and it looks like 3 squares is same width. Stating it plainly just in case anyone needs it to be clarified.
– I’m counting 125 green squares, which is a lot. Are the people whose names are on the diagram prepared to handle 16 baseplates each, or are we in danger of biting off more than we can chew? Example: Ben’s section on the diagram shows 16 baseplates, but in his post he mentioned doing 4. Not saying anyone should be expected to do more than he or she is willing / capable of (based on inventory & build time, not dissing anyone’s skill); just saying we need to make sure (sooner rather than later) that we’re really capable of filling that many baseplates.
– we’re going to have a separate, similarly sized group of tables for MOCs that aren’t trains / winter villages, right? (I.E. – Pittsburgh buildings, starfighters, medieval villages, ships in bottles…)
– Greg, I saw on the other thread () that you said you have a Santa monorail “nearly completed” – are you needing the actual monorail cars from Dan or me to put it on, or do you have that, too?
– Related to last question: are we trying for *just* a Santa’s sleigh on the monorail track, or are we going to have 2 separate loops, one with something else? (I’d probably lean toward just one… just want to clarify what everyone’s thinking.)
I know this is a first crack at the layout, so we can adapt what we see here; just trying to get my head around how it’s going to come together.
And everyone needs to keep the timetable in mind – we have 5 weeks. If we are short 60 baseplates, we’d better get them ordered soon and figure out who’s building them. If someone needs to place Bricklink orders for lots of sand red parts for that wicked cool <whatever>, better do it sooner rather than later. I have faith that we can make this awesome, but I also know that it’s a way bigger project (even if a lot of baseplates are basically blank snow plates or whatever) than DIG or the Great Wall, so we can’t afford to do what I’ve done so far and wait until the last day or two…. [preaching to myself here, just letting yinz listen to the lecture.]