Building the OCD — Old Colony Division

We moved into the new condo this winter, closed on the old house in March, and have spent a couple of months unpacking and setting things up.  Getting ready for TKR in July. But before I get another titanium knee, I am trying to start planning and building the OCD.

The basement is 1,800 square feet, mostly empty.  Here are some pictures of part of it:

I have some box square benchwork left over from the old basement train room, and have acquired some layout sections from an old friend of mine, Henry Pierce, which will be incorporated into the finished layout.  Although I will be laying out the plan and starting to assign structures to various locations, I plan to stud and insulate the walls and put in lighting and a drop ceiling.  This is going to be a great project.

Today I have spent a good amount of time updating the web page and the links contained in it, searching for signs for my latest building project, and working on the 2017 Northeastern Region NMRA convention, scheduled for Newport in November.

Here is a picture of one part of the basement with the modules on the floor:

My thinking is that there will be a straight run down the wall side, with a letter E configuration down the middle. There is more room to the right of the columns.

Meanwhile, at the workbench I am kitbashing the “Seaview” from Nick and Nora Designs. You can see the kit here.  I am backdating it and making it a Fish Company as part of my village of Eastwick — a fictionalized Rhode Island town created by John Updike in the book the Witches of Eastwick.  Right now it is a pile of parts on my bench — started it last year before I got busy with moving and selling, now retrieved from a box and marching toward completion.  Last week I finished Fos Scale Models kit Pressman Radio Repair.  Here is a picture:

Just a small structure, but will fit into the Newport scene on the layout nicely. It came with a window display, which is nice.