What indeed.

Protocrastinations are the ramblings of a frustrated finescale railway modeller. It will be an amalgam of my external blogs "4mm scale agonies" and the "Protocrastinator" which cover my so far unsuccessful attempts to build a finescale layout in 3.5 and 4mm scales.

It's tough being a finescaler in the USA. You guys in the UK have it so easy with your P4, EM, S7 and even 2mm area groups. You can all meet once a month and share ideas and get personal contact with like minded modellers.

Not so I. I think there's a P4 society member in Chicago 10 hours away and there's rumours of a P87 modeller in the south of Minnesota. So contact is not easy.

That is where all my grand projects fall down flat. No personal contact. Should I join the Minnesota Garden Railway Society there's more chance of my garden Railroad getting finished before my P4 or P87 models.

Anyway enough of me feeling sorry for myself. Where am I in either project?

I've got a very nice pair of baseboards, suitable for either project. Plus P4 track and turnouts to build a layout. There's a re-wheeled 08 and quite a bit of freight stock in kit form, as well as a tin chapel kit built.

As for the P87 project, there's lots and lots of stock ready to be re-wheeled and turnouts waiting to be converted. Getting hold of the wheels and turnout conversion units is turning out to be an issue though.

I could go either way at the moment. I'm just immensely frustrated at the lack of any progress anywhere