My Hobby-Man

I don't know if many of you know this, but Mike's secret hobby is model railroading.(Well, since he told me about it, it's not so secret anymore...oops)
If you know very much about model railroading, then you'll know there's different scales that you can model. Mike loves N-Scale, which is 1/160 of real life size.

So, for Valentine's Day I got him the plywood and things he would need to get started on a layout, real romantic right? Haha, he was really excited though! :)

This is the mess before he really got started. It made our room smell like plywood for days... and still does sometimes, haha.

This is while he was adhering the foam to the table, he almost used a whole shelf worth of books out of our bookcases. In case you didn't notice, he built the table himself, it's pretty awesome. I love having a husband who can figure out how to create and build stuff!

After he glued the foam down, he of course had to try out his train on it a bit...

This is the layout he created and printed out, it's looking pretty great!

Now he's started cutting out the river that will run along the top left of the layout and really planning where his town, industry, and everything else will go. Unfortunately, then the expensive part of model railroading comes in... the track. So, I guess he'll have to save up his railroad budget for the next couple of months to start purchasing all the track he needs. I'm kind of excited about it, too though, it's going to be really neat when he gets it all done!