electrical resistance. I plan to rewire these sidings with toggle
switches.
Gustav:
Your layout appears almost complete. Do you feel it is?
Jim:
No, not at all. After about 10 years of working on the lay-
out my wife asked me one day when I was going to finish it. I
told her, "Sweetheart, when I finish it, I will also be finished."
There are some areas that still need to be sceniced. I hate see-
ing white plaster so I always paint it and add some ground
cover, tea leaves, whatever, but I want to get back to those
areas and create more three-dimensional scenes.
I still have a lot of kits to build. On my workbench there's an
elaborate saw mill in progress. Most of the structures on the
Naturalist Gustav W. Verderber
is an author, professional nature
photographer, and adjunct professor
of environmental science with a MS in
zoology.
Gustav's New England and Erie is a
freelance HO layout, complete with
structures and scenery. The layout
is loosely based on the rust belt of
northern Ohio where he grew up.
