Tales from The Room of Doom. Dipping a toe in various bucolic backwaters.

[NHY 581]

Your little shed scene is, as usual, inspiring me! It has a very 'Tanfield-y' look in the low level photos I thought.

I do have a rather embarrassingly large stash of OO locos of an industrial bent, and it's too cold in the garage for the O gauge layout at the moment, plus a bike build going on in there making a mess, and....here we go again!

Thanks once more for being an inspiration, as a Geordie, 'Seahorses' is close to my heart, really looking forward to seeing this develop too.

Hi Neil,

Good to see you and glad to provoke a bit of thought.
Seahorses is proceeding but this little shed scene currently leads the field. What I'm enjoying are the different adjustments that can be made to what is a very, very simple layout.

Rob

 

[NHY 581]

So, after a bit of playing, er....further planning, I've arrived at this, which I'm pretty happy with.

The 110 x 26cm shelf is now divided up into a 70cm scenic area and 40cm fiddly area ( yellow line across the board is the divider ). An end board will cross the layout at this point with the usual mousehole therein.



The additional length now allows a small radius point to be added which narrows the formation through the backscene. This also means that the entire layout can be accommodated on the one board.

Shed is roughly positioned and track plonked down then bent to the approximate radius but I really don't see much difference to the final look.

I'm thinking that the next step is to cut the plain track to length, before track laying and wiring is carried out.

Rob

 

[timbowales]

Very nice!

 

[Osgood]

Don't cut the track just yet!

Turn first to P47 of that copy of Wale's Last Days of Colliery Steam - just look at that lovely kink in the track as you stare out of the dark shed, and that rickety section of palisade fencing........

 

[NHY 581]

Don't cut the track just yet! View attachment 230945

Turn first to P47 of that copy of Wale's Last Days of Colliery Steam - just look at that lovely kink in the track as you stare out of the dark shed, and that rickety section of palisade fencing........

It's a great image. The lamp posts are rather groovy as well and as for the paddy van on the opposite page...........

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

If you're up for it you could always trim both points to bring them closer together (not quite interlaced) for a more compact industrial appearance.

 

[NHY 581]

If you're up for it you could always trim both points to bring them closer together (not quite interlaced) for a more compact industrial appearance.

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Morning Dai,

That's an interesting thought, thanks. It would indeed give a more industrial look it. From a spacial perspective, it would make little or no difference but I see your point. One to ponder on. Tony also makes a very good point regarding wonky trackwork. I have seen attempts at recreating badly laid track and it appears to be quite difficult to not only do convincingly but to also maintain decent running. On the other channel, someone was trying to explain that his colliery trackwork was laid as such but it looked awful and also gave poor running which was blamed on the locos rather than the track.....

In general, progress will pause for a bit. I have a funeral to attend on Saturday which will require an early morning start. It will take me to West Wales before a ride up the coast to Aberystwyth and I'll be travelling on two wheels rather than four as it's one of my old biking mates that has passed ( at far too young an age ).
Work today, so Friday will see me prepping the bike for what is likely to be a chilly day out. Weather currently looks dry, though cloudy with temperatures hovering around 4° for the run. I've certainly ridden further in lower temperatures over the years, but this looks set to be a bit of an adventure. I suspect that Sunday will certainly involve a damn good wash to get the salt off depending on what time I get back on Saturday as I'd prefer to do it then but I suspect it will be dark o'clock on my return.

Rob