Half gone - where?

Oh, man, September is slipping by with not much modeling to show for it.  When I do get time to sit at the workbench, I'm generally feeling too tired to do much of anything.

I did finish three buildings.  They are the AMB_Laser Kit LK-605 Sonny's Shack (2-pack per kit) and the Randy Brown Models N-102 Fire Station.

The bright one on the left is to be a surf and scuba shop on the beach, hence the bright colors.  It "needs" an HO beach dude, on a surfboard, on the roof.
Remember, this is N, so HO is approx twice life size.  That should be a good size
for an advertising sign, eh?

It's sibling, in the middle, and the RB kit on the right haven't been assigned a specific purpose, just yet.  But they will be some sort of businesses.  Something for the beach.

On the bench now is the start of two more RB models, N-105P Paco's Tacos and N-905 Tiny's Diner.  No progress picture, as they are still piles of parts.  Here's the factory pictures: 

Yep, they'll also be on the beach modules.

I'm thinking that some small houses will be needed, and a couple of the 3-packs of Grandt_Line 300-8023 Reese St. Row Houses should be good.  That's six places, with optional additions to make them all unique.

Okay, change of subject here.  Another of my malingeringly slow projects is a Tam Valley Train Shuttle.  No longer available, it's a DCC exerciser for locomotives.  A loco can be set to any 2-digit address, and it'll be shuttled back and forth on a linear track.  How it works is clever.  After being told that such a circuit couldn't be done in DCC, they set out and did it.  It's a truly neat, unique product.  It handles a 99 possible 2-digit addresses, no programming.












I'm glad I bought one, along with the optional 2X16 display.  With that, it can accommodate locos with 4-digit addresses.  The address is programmed into the unit (it's trivial, even I can do it!)  I don't remember right off, but I think there's a limit of 16 of the 4-digit addresses. Don't quote me on that.

Any way, it's a quality little unit, with its' own DCC generation, so the only other thing needed is the supplied wall-wart. I'm putting mine in a small wood box, and mounting an ESU decoder tester on top.  All in all, a convenient stunt box/test station. 

My tester is a slightly older model board, but it looks quite similar.

So, I guess I am getting a little bit done, it just doesn't seem like it some times.  Oh, well . . .