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Test Track- or dig straight in?


Russ (mines a pint)

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Whilst the layout I'm dreaming up is neither huge nor unduly complex, I am having a little trouble getting to grips with the actual change of scale - and the various point-building systems in 2mm

 

The couple of scratchbuild plans for buildings and stuff I've drawn up are just not looking right and tending to overscale. Starting to wonder if another little test-tracky type diorama might serve a purpose in getting used to the scale before making a move with a serious layout.

 

Having looked at the stuff again, I'd love to have a try an easitrac turnout, and to a custom geometry, feeling like going back to dead straight points is a bit of a retro-step?

 

- been reading up on the Woodhead circular layout today, fantastic! - It makes Helmsdale look possible (that is a real station I've always wanted to model)

 

H'mm yet more thoughts and subversion! :O

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  • RMweb Gold

It is always worth having a try out if you planning changes of scale. A bit of track a few mock up buildings some stock helps to get your eye in.

Don

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  • RMweb Gold

It is always worth having a try out if you planning changes of scale. A bit of track a few mock up buildings some stock helps to get your eye in.Don

 

 

I think you are quite right, I am certainly finding the things to be much smaller than I envisaged, even though in my minds eye I know they should be approximately half the size, I'm also becoming aware through further reading that I might be underselling myself by going for a 'compacted' end to end layout in the good old 4mm tradition downsized.

 

If the woodhead mainline can be represented in a 4'6 diameter circle, then I'm sure Helmsdale could be done in smaller, as the station is in prototype, on a fairly sharp curve.

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