One day and already causing problems

Yeah.....I'm young tho, (No sure of your age but, I'm going to be 36 in Sept. And sadly, it was a hard choice to make but....

In my shop, Not only did I work on Lionel trains BUT ALL scale models of Trains! Sadly, its a big hobby even more so them model cars, BUT this "modeling" thing is has been a past time hobby of mine damn near my whole life....

I'm just now getting into the real cars due to the truck, I mean I've been into real cars, (I painted old Muscle and antique cars for many years growing up from the time I was about 8 years old caught with sand paper in my hand, wet sanding a '33 Plymouth 3 window Coupe.....I seriously need to get pictures scanned of that car, that I took, way back when....The pics were taken with an old "Concord 110" camera! My first camera BTW.....Also the first car I actually painted, with no help, I was 12.....The owner of the garage that allowed me too, still has the car, but it hasn't been ran in awhile I have heard. BUT, I'm not sure its still the same colors, Purple and yellow....Like a match to the old (I want to say JC Whitney catalog) Its been 23 years ago now so....And the other thing that really got me on that car, as after I painted it, the own Don, put a damned Chevy 350 in it. when he said it was going to be the "Red Ram Hemi" he had sittin' there in the garage that I also painted for in the car....

As far as little parts on that car, he even allowed me to take them home and work on them (I lived 4 houses up the street from the garage so....)

But thats how all of this, began! At that time, I was custom painting the trains from a local hobby shop, my Grandparents helped me with getting everything together to go on since that time, till the close of the shop last year in November....

BUT now, its time I "John" the modeler, enjoy this hobby and not worry what I "have" to get done in the shop, its my Man Cave now! LOL (My wife, however, has her own "Craft area" too......Cuz, I'll admit, To get away from it all, thats where, you'll find me, so she comes up and does her sewing, or art work, crafts with the daughter or whatever while I'm building something.....

My daughter, is nine, and is learning how to spray paint....As she asked, so....I went and got her her own mask and off to the races (so to speak) we go!

But as far as my "Train Collection" goes, I'll have to post pictures.....To much to explain! LOL my layout for the trains is 8x10, in a "U" shape, upside down in my basement that equals about 110 square feet....I got somewheres about 250 displayed locomotives, and 400 freight cars to run at any given time, I have another 1,000 freight cars to build, and something like 300 more locomotives to build.....ALL HO scale...So you might say, with the model cars, I get carried away, so I have to limit myself! (Its one thing to do things, but a whole other to have a real "Collectors" gene, and NO I'm not a hoarder.....Its all displayable and will be as my display cases are nicely done wall hung units that I make, myself! Stuff, I'll NEVER see done? I'm selling off, or trading off for things I know will get done!

Isn't this reply just a short story.....