Hi all,
Firstly, you can be forgiven for rolling your eyes because I've not got a great track record when it comes to layout building. My other two threads have shambled along with plenty of peripheral modelling, but little in the way of actual progress (little = none).
Three things happened recently. Firstly I posted on my Talerddig thread and was amazed by the fact people actually cared. Secondly, TMC had a boxing day sale and Hornby Ruston's at a very good price and finally Rob (NHY81) suggested I do something "quick and simple".
In order to try and capitalise on this, I've planned a very small, very simple layout. I figure that if I can make some progress with this, it may encourage me to work on the other two layouts at some point too.
Dimensions are dictated by offcuts of wood I have, nothing clever here, and equally the track is some bits I already have.
This is the trackplan:
The top right siding will have some kind of warehouse/goods shed as a background and I also want to make a representation of a local building (my pic):
My initial thoughts were to make a dockyard type scene, but I ruled this out because of the additional work required to make inset track - just the sort of thing that will derail any motivation I have.
Track will enter the scene top left, and possibly between two buildings - think Caeharris (I have a photo but not sure if I can post it as it turned up in a Google search). Again, subject to change.
Finally, I'm not going to overthink or worry too much about accuracy or I'll just stall again. Today has been spent building the baseboard frame (1000 x 300mm) in the kitchen, much to my wife and daughter's bemusement.
Anyway, enough rambling - I can only cross my fingers that I'll actually follow through with this layout this time...
Matt
Firstly, you can be forgiven for rolling your eyes because I've not got a great track record when it comes to layout building. My other two threads have shambled along with plenty of peripheral modelling, but little in the way of actual progress (little = none).
Three things happened recently. Firstly I posted on my Talerddig thread and was amazed by the fact people actually cared. Secondly, TMC had a boxing day sale and Hornby Ruston's at a very good price and finally Rob (NHY81) suggested I do something "quick and simple".
In order to try and capitalise on this, I've planned a very small, very simple layout. I figure that if I can make some progress with this, it may encourage me to work on the other two layouts at some point too.
Dimensions are dictated by offcuts of wood I have, nothing clever here, and equally the track is some bits I already have.
This is the trackplan:
The top right siding will have some kind of warehouse/goods shed as a background and I also want to make a representation of a local building (my pic):
My initial thoughts were to make a dockyard type scene, but I ruled this out because of the additional work required to make inset track - just the sort of thing that will derail any motivation I have.
Track will enter the scene top left, and possibly between two buildings - think Caeharris (I have a photo but not sure if I can post it as it turned up in a Google search). Again, subject to change.
Finally, I'm not going to overthink or worry too much about accuracy or I'll just stall again. Today has been spent building the baseboard frame (1000 x 300mm) in the kitchen, much to my wife and daughter's bemusement.
Anyway, enough rambling - I can only cross my fingers that I'll actually follow through with this layout this time...
Matt