7mm Heybridge Basin
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Richard Gawler
Western Thunderer
Thanks Graham. The "Stores" wagon was one of my first for 7 mm scale and for some reason I usually reach for it first if I want to try out a new loco or a new bit of track or whatever. It sort of fits the project - a doubtful provenance (="freelance design") and the right "look" for the place and time.
spikey faz
Western Thunderer
Hi Richard
I reckon once you've done the ballasting and added a few weeds here and there you'll have got the balance about right.
Mike
I reckon once you've done the ballasting and added a few weeds here and there you'll have got the balance about right.
Mike
Richard Gawler
Western Thunderer
"Heybridge Basin" hasn't shown up any ghastly problems likely to lead to untimely abandonment, and I want to take it through to a reasonable state of completion. If so it will be my third half-decent layout out of my 18 so far and it can sit in with my H0 and H0e layouts which are both much smaller. Ballast and weeds will make a big difference, and then I can think about smaller things like the lever frame and an oil lamp.
But first! It is difficult to show an overall balance here, but the whole model does look a lot better if I add an extra 400 mm to the left.
I can use Module B from my first fiddle yard to do this.
This gives me space to include a level crossing with road access to the yard, and one or two more trees along the way to the fiddle yard. I could even have a large shed to block the view - there were two for the timber traffic here and something similar for the railway traffic would be logical.
Adding Module B gives me four possible layouts with three different overall lengths, all able to do much the same thing but with an extra wagon if I use the extension for the sea lock. If I am careful, Module B will still be able to fulfill most of its original role as a headshunt in the fiddle yard project too.
Of course, if I had made my sample track 20 mm longer this could be up and running in an hour, but I made the track for a display case and then decided the display looked much better without it . . .