This week is totally reserved for planning. Ours and
Gerhard Dauscher's ideas are worked over. Never before had a
professional modeler such fantastic possibilities to realize even the
craziest ideas. With the sheer size of this project, nearly everything
goes! We laugh, stunn and puzzle about absolutely maniac ideas that come
up. During our brainstorming in the eveneing. We now have already
more than 200 ideas on our list. Gerhard Dauscher already implanted as
many as possible of them into the first building phase. We realize
that, although we're quite experienced in stage- and disco-techniques,
we need more high-qualified assistance. This week we were able to hire
two electronics cracks who now grumble about our ideas.
There's good progress on the layout-site.
The wonderful steel columns (more than 100 !!!) are
sanded and painted. This makes for a nice station-flair!
After the first drywall panels are under the ceiling,
no time is wasted and the painters move in.
Much work, much rubble! For the time being, we need
one container of 10 qbm capacity a day to get rid of old materials.
Air-condition channels are mounted all over the place.
Unbelievingly expensive but a warranty for a long life of our small world! The air-condition will guarantie a steady temperature and humidity so that
the various materials won't warp, and will keep the air somewhat
dust-free. As all model railroaders know: Dust is our enemy #1!
The first utility-closets are installed. Initial calculations
tell us that we will need at least 15,000 kwh of power a month!
