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The ramblings and reflections of a perpetual project planner - and my attempts to build a model railway.

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How to not plan a model railway (part 4) - In which we find an unexpected ending...

At the end of my last post I was thinking of a North American standard gauge HO project again.  It would be instead of the European one I'd been edging towards since being joyfully distracted by my Roco HO OBB Taurus loco (and all that followed).   I previously shifted my focus stateside last November, but while I already have about forty US HO freight cars and kits, plus kits for buildings, I hadn't managed to find the inspiration to keep going when my ideas for a layout design got a

How to not plan a model railway (part 3) - Some thoughts on Inspiration...

An important point was made in the comments below my previous blog post by @AndyB that is worth highlighting before I start: thinking through ideas for a Standard Gauge layout is not the only thing I'm doing.  I'm not a quick modeller, but my workbench has some narrow gauge scratch-aid kits and scratchbuilds in progress:     And earlier this year I completed five different station model kits, (one in TT I began last year and four new builds in HO):     The

How to not plan a model railway (part 2.2) - Another view?

The question I'm picking up for this blog entry is whether trying (and failing) to fit a good continuous run plan into my space is getting in the way of me building any sort of layout?  I decided to have another look at a terminus to fiddle yard scheme, an idea I’ve explored in the past in both standard gauge and narrow gauge:   How to not plan a model railway (part 2.2) - Another view?   Opening up my space would appear to offer a number of advantages.  This...  

How to not plan a model railway (part 2.I) - The narrow path

At the end of my previous post I gave myself two objectives:    To do:  slim down the baseboards for my next narrow gauge project, and The big question:  to consider alternatives to a continuous run for a standard gauge HO project.   Although August hasn't seen me doing practical modelling for my project threads, enough has been going on behind the scenes for me to split this blog update into two entries.  This first section is about narrow gauge:   How to not

Season 2 - How to not plan a model railway (part 1)

Episode 1: “The only way is up!” - a nadir is reached…   I’ve been interested in layout design and track planning for as long as I’ve been interested in model railways.  After all the books I’ve read, videos I’ve watched, and ideas I’ve doodled, I’d suggest there are two fundamentals to be decided on at the start.  Most importantly: what’s the vision?  What do I want my layout to represent, or achieve?  Trouble is I like a lot of different things and have far too many ideas, as demonst
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