I'm just back from my holiday to England. As per usual it was all too brief a visit.
But I did get a chance to do something I've always wanted to do.
Visit Pendon.
I've wanted to go there ever since I was bitten by the finescale bug and heard about the place. But whilst living in England I never got a chance to go. From the East Coast of Lincolnshire to Oxford is a long drive and the day was never long enough to go there and back in a day. So when I discovered that Pendon was only 8 miles fro
It had to happen. Didn't it?
There I was happily messing around with my iPad sketching out ideas for APA Box layouts and I had to go and test fit the Purfleet Quay idea into in APA box and see if it would fit.
In P4.
Now I happen to have quite a bit of P4 stuff tucked away in a bag ready for when I start the project that keeps on getting aborted, so a test fit was not difficult A class 08, some Bachmann 16T mineral wagons and Parkside box vans all running P4 wheelsets, five yards of track (a
A further test. Seems like I've got more control over monotone at the moment. (Which is OK for me) David Hockney uses the "Brushes" App on his iPad and iPhone. So I'm downloading that as I type so I'll try that and see what happens with it.
Last night I reached for soe P4 track I had and discovered that this sketch would fit in a APA box in P4. A5 turnouts and the stock would only be things like short wheelbase shunters shunting 16T mineral wagons and box vans.
Food for finescale thought...
I had a vision of a small layout came into my mind at work today and filled full of admiration for the latest iPad works of Art by David Hockney I thought I'd try sketching it using the Adobe Ideas App. I've been messing with Adobe Ideas for a while off and on and I'm starting to get the hang of it. I'm still "drawing" using my finger rather than a stylus which can be a bit annoying when the line doesn't quite go where you want it to.
The idea is basically Purfleet Quay in Kings Lynn http://bin
So, to expand on the idea outlined earlier here's a couple of sketchbook pages to illustrate what I'm talking about.
The above sketch shows the wide open backscene typical of forest country in new England perhaps
This is exactly the same layout sketch with the backscene changed to something more like the Midwest .
The scribble below each layout concept illustrates how the sloping backscene would look in profile. I'd bolt the backscene onto the back with a few coach bolts and wing nuts. Th
It appears that I am driving myself into a corner that I might not be able to get out of without some kind of layout construction.
It all starts here somewhere in Cornwall thread. Northpoint had discussed the problems with the overhang of the trees on his rather super looking layout. I passed comment on an idea that I once had but hadn't acted on for a sloping backscene that could be covered with a depth of tree tops without taking up any layout space.
I'd also mooted this idea for the wilds o
I've been reviewing this section of my 4mm scale agonies blog
http://4mmscaleagonies.blogspot.com/search/label/plans
I can't believe that in the space of less than 2 years I came up with 20 schemes for layouts.
Looking at them all again after not having seen them together in a year makes me realize that I'd still like to model them. All the concepts, Nuclear flask terminal, scrapyard and of course the Haven.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't so creative
These two baseboards were built with the P87 project in mind but I'm not averse to using them on the P4 layout.
Makes for a total layout length of 5' x 19" at the deepest, with the shorter dimension being 13".
Built from 3/16" ply strips 3" deep on the sides and 1/4" ply on the tops. They are rather light and strong.
What indeed.
Protocrastinations are the ramblings of a frustrated finescale railway modeller. It will be an amalgam of my external blogs "4mm scale agonies" and the "Protocrastinator" which cover my so far unsuccessful attempts to build a finescale layout in 3.5 and 4mm scales.
It's tough being a finescaler in the USA. You guys in the UK have it so easy with your P4, EM, S7 and even 2mm area groups. You can all meet once a month and share ideas and get personal contact with like minded modelle
