Demonstration 'layout'

[Allen M]

Hello all
In a few weeks time a great crowd of friends and families, many known each other for years, are having an evening get together. As well as plenty of food, tea, coffee & pop we will be trying to show each other items from our hobbies. Now taking my layout 0 gauge is not possible so what to do, well raid the garage, loft and modelling room for what can be found. Well it reviled a piece of chip board, some plywood, about a yard of PECO track bits, some 00 track and a box of scenic materials.


I will use the station building and a hut from my layout. But a lot of areas will go from finished to bare board. See the level crossing where the 'under ground' can be seen and the other end with bare track. This way folk can see how it is built up without spending a fortune. Perhaps someone will have a go in the future.

Regards
Allen

 

[Allen M]

Hi all
A bit more progress.

The patch by the buffer is where a hut will stand. It drops into place with a dowel into a hole. The corner of the board by the road will be left as it is to show how the level was built up with corrugated card and news paper on top.
The strange the white bits show up in the photo but are barely unnoticeable when look on.

Regards
Allen

 

[Allen M]

A bit more progress. The bricks along the siding did not work out well but will have to do. The sheep are from my layout, painted white metal with a stiff wire spike soldered on which pushes into the base. As stated the unfinished bits are to show how it is done.



Should have also said the hut is borrowed from my layout.

Regards
Allen

 

[Jordan or Plymouth Mad]

Might be a good idea to take a loco for which you have a prototype photograph - one of the things I explain to people outside the hobby is how part of it is replicating real engines (or rolling stock) in model form.
My Pannier Tanks both resemble real locos as they were in the final months of 1965, for example.
I did this both at the last Cradley show and with the son of a friend; people's current view of the hobby seems to be that awful (in my view) "Great Model Railway Challenge" TV Show, which reduced the hobby to gimmicks and almost 'cartoon' layouts, and missed the largest part of the hobby completely.

 

[Allen M]

Hi Jordan and all
What you have said is what am intending to do. The loco will be a terrier or possible my kit built WCPR Hesperus. I will also take photos from my many books to show how a 1920s country railway looked like.
While mine is O gauge my aim to to show that things do not need to cost a lot of money and could be adapted to build a model in other scales, a garden/park without a railway or be a stand for model cars.
Regards
Allen

 

[Allen M]

As a follow up this is a small version we built some years ago. He was about 10 at the time.
The grounded van body was free with Railway Modeller, The pipes are strews, the planks are coffee stirrers with the rest bits of wood and or plastic. The back scine is from my house back window.

I have not see him for some time but I think he still has it. It was also in RM letters page just after it was built.

Regards
Allen