geoff_nicholls
Western Thunderer
The track arrived from Cliff Barker today
this is most of it on the layout plan. more a working diorama really. Something that can be taken to exhibitions packed in the back of an average car, but will provide some operating interest, and show off the possibilities of modelling gauge 3 indoors.
There will be one metre long fiddle yards, using cassettes, at either end. locos will be able to run round short trains. The inspiration for the scene came from the entrance to Outwell Village depot on the Wisbech and Upwell tramway, the turnout will be embedded in a roadway. I may also have the front line in the road as well, it depends on how it looks when I fit the 'proscenium arch' frontage.
I've chosen the first building, the left hand end of the Ancient House, in Walthamstow village. The building in front of it will also be chosen from there, as I cycle through the village on the way to work.
the turnout is 1.5m radius, so only four wheeled locos could take the back road, but the front will be 3m radius, big enough to take anything that will fit in the fiddle yard.
Some of you will remember my other layout Aldeborough Yard, that layout is still under construction, but will be a more specifically Great Eastern long term project.
Just had a phone call from Grainge and Hodder, the layout boards should be delivered next week.
this is most of it on the layout plan. more a working diorama really. Something that can be taken to exhibitions packed in the back of an average car, but will provide some operating interest, and show off the possibilities of modelling gauge 3 indoors.
There will be one metre long fiddle yards, using cassettes, at either end. locos will be able to run round short trains. The inspiration for the scene came from the entrance to Outwell Village depot on the Wisbech and Upwell tramway, the turnout will be embedded in a roadway. I may also have the front line in the road as well, it depends on how it looks when I fit the 'proscenium arch' frontage.
I've chosen the first building, the left hand end of the Ancient House, in Walthamstow village. The building in front of it will also be chosen from there, as I cycle through the village on the way to work.
the turnout is 1.5m radius, so only four wheeled locos could take the back road, but the front will be 3m radius, big enough to take anything that will fit in the fiddle yard.
Some of you will remember my other layout Aldeborough Yard, that layout is still under construction, but will be a more specifically Great Eastern long term project.
Just had a phone call from Grainge and Hodder, the layout boards should be delivered next week.