michael mott
Western Thunderer
The work I started on the Crewe Pet has spawned a layout. I have space now inside the house, was able to use the spare bedroom that is in the basement which was full of stuff still not sorted since moving back to the city. The conditions for being able to use the room were that it still had to be able to store household stuff.
I put three boards together that are 4 feet x 2 feet and set them up along one wall they are free standing and are 44 inches high. I put a black curtain along the front so that household stuff could be stored underneath. The only other requirement was to add a bit of lighting so hung a couple of plug in Led type long lamps one over the workbench at one end of the room and the other over the boards.
After thinking about what scale to build my layout I decided to go for a scale that will allow me to get into the minutia of detail that will satisfy my long winter evenings working on the scene or set as it were because this will obviously be limited in the scope of operating potential. I am more inclined to build than run stuff. That said I do want some movement and for it to be credible.
For convenience I will be using Peco O gauge flex track to represent an 18 inch narrow gauge type track. and some code 215 Llagas Creek flat bottom rail in some modified sleepers to represent the standard gauge track. Most of the standard gauge and narrow gauge track will be set into various materials to bring the surface up to the height of the rail-head. At the extreme left end of the layout the standard gauge track will be modeled up with proper sleepers and spikes.
A rough sketch of the layout.
and some shots of a little playing with odd bits of track and some card to get a sense of the massing, Most of the backdrop will be the outside of the loco building facility with some interior at the right hand end .
The large standard gauge loco will be mostly built up from card and plastic although it will be able to move with radio, as will the small 18 inch gauge locos. By using radio I won't have to fiddle with track wiring.
The standard gauge track is basically 4 inches and the overall scale is .070" = 1 inch so 56.5" = 3.955" or 100.45mm.
working at this scale will not strain my eyes, or fingers.
Michael
I put three boards together that are 4 feet x 2 feet and set them up along one wall they are free standing and are 44 inches high. I put a black curtain along the front so that household stuff could be stored underneath. The only other requirement was to add a bit of lighting so hung a couple of plug in Led type long lamps one over the workbench at one end of the room and the other over the boards.
After thinking about what scale to build my layout I decided to go for a scale that will allow me to get into the minutia of detail that will satisfy my long winter evenings working on the scene or set as it were because this will obviously be limited in the scope of operating potential. I am more inclined to build than run stuff. That said I do want some movement and for it to be credible.
For convenience I will be using Peco O gauge flex track to represent an 18 inch narrow gauge type track. and some code 215 Llagas Creek flat bottom rail in some modified sleepers to represent the standard gauge track. Most of the standard gauge and narrow gauge track will be set into various materials to bring the surface up to the height of the rail-head. At the extreme left end of the layout the standard gauge track will be modeled up with proper sleepers and spikes.
A rough sketch of the layout.
and some shots of a little playing with odd bits of track and some card to get a sense of the massing, Most of the backdrop will be the outside of the loco building facility with some interior at the right hand end .
The large standard gauge loco will be mostly built up from card and plastic although it will be able to move with radio, as will the small 18 inch gauge locos. By using radio I won't have to fiddle with track wiring.
The standard gauge track is basically 4 inches and the overall scale is .070" = 1 inch so 56.5" = 3.955" or 100.45mm.
working at this scale will not strain my eyes, or fingers.
Michael