Saturday Ramble - Project farming

What to do and when to do it? Some modellers spend a lifetime with one firmly defined goal, others wander from one unspecified place to another. I'm probably the latter. That said, providing there is not a technical crisis or a realisation that it just won't work, I'll get to the end before moving on.  Part of this approach is project farming.

Project farming can be random, or in this case, part of a direction. This first is a simple one; fitting couplings to a van that was detailed in the junior modeller section of RM a couple months back. The the second is painting, detailing and cutting-in of the industrial unit built by Mr. Hill a while back. The block will be covered and the resulting missing part will be masked with something. The third is to sort out the remaining section of platform and then paint the whole lot.

Three seemingly random projects farmed from the cupboard which all steer toward the same end result. Breaking things up into small chunks, as is often suggested for say revising for exams, and works just as well here. The aim is not to build a layout, only to finish the project in hand. Less pressure and not a mountain to climb. We often force ourselves to bite the whole layout and see it as one giant task... it isn't. A carefully set of farmed projects with a general aim is the way to go.

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