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The Idea.


Virago496

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When last going through my wardrobe I found the old box of railway bits and the Hornby R1046-SD Christmas special. I put the set together on the dining room table and ran the little steam engine, the Classes 37, 29 and a B12 blogentry-34225-0-06668900-1524508713.jpgblogentry-34225-0-71809900-1524508712.jpgblogentry-34225-0-29329700-1524508713.jpg
round and found that they all needed cleaning and servicing. On to Youtube to help guide me through this process and pretty soon I was knee deep into model railways again. A visit to Amazon and e bay made me want some brilliant little things that were just too cheap to resist. Then came the voice of that little devil on the shoulder saying: "You could build a nice little layout in the garage you know". And that what it, the idea was born. Like a newborn baby constantly asking for my attention. I am a lorry driver and sitting behind the wheel for 10 hours a day gives you so much time to work out ideas and expand on them.

 

First off, I'm not an experienced modeller, and my handiwork usually looks a bit dishevelled. But I'm filled with good intentions and vowed to not rush this project. I have bought lots of stuff but want to try and make more things myself. I've already tried creating a stone wall from polystyrene and am not too displeased with that (photos will follow). I plan to research things before attempting them and will make plenty mistakes.

 

Inspiration came from watching other peoples layout videos on Youtube and I decided that my railway would need an elevated section at the back and two trains running in opposite directions, I thought that that would make it all look bigger/ more active. The space in a separate bit of the garage is almost large enough for an 8x4 board, I put that in cutting about 20cm of the length and using that cut off as a ramp to get 8cm up at the back. Now most of you will say: "That is too wide, you can't get to the back this way". I researched the height of the baseboard and found on forums that this should be at the 90cm mark. Too high. But it's in place and I'm going to have to deal with it. Part of this blog is I hope to get tip and ideas from fellow, more experienced, modellers. So don't be afraid to comment, I'd love to hear

 

On Scarm I came up with this:blogentry-34225-0-66123600-1524303694_thumb.jpg
The blue loop is elevated 8cm at the back and crosses over the inner part of it. There's going to be a hill/mountain in the top left corner that needs to be able to be removed in case of derailments. Trains will run counter clockwise only and a place still needs to be found for a station. The green loop is completely separate and will have a little shunter running clockwise. The single siding has been moved above the engine shed because the shed would not fit the original design. The two tracks going into the engine shed will be switched so they can be connected to the main line alternatively. Hope this all makes a bit of sense. Let me know your thoughts. I will be away for the next two days but will read comments on my phone.

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