Black Sheep

I rest my point, the mere suggestion has started the battle of words...

Bury apparently has a world famous market... I'd never heard of it before moving up here and seeing a sign on the outside of the building...

Have a very precise and well modeled EM gauge modern image layout and then... Run a model of the Ninky-Nonk round!

getting there with my duchess...

A little bit more sketching today; Plan for how the station and station hotel fit onto the layout, figure I can gradually build up a picture of how it should fit together, then start mocking up in real life (never been one for scale models of scale models) So, the formal building that sits across the end of the bay platform lines (parcels traffic on the line nearest the ''front'' The hotel will have an entrance onto the promenade (Queen Victoria Drive perhaps?) and an entrance towards the station. The road / car park slopes up to the station, just think a little queue of taxis from hotel round to entrance.

That's so unrealistic, I'm sorry, but it is. There's always one who can't park and straddles a white line!

Sheep being marked goes back years, what is used has changed but I recall seeing a book from the 20's 30's I believe showing each farmers marks for the local area along with address (not many phones) Twas in the museum of Lakeland Life

No progress as struggling to visualise in my head how it's going to look and then get it onto paper with space for platforms, buildings, streets etc in order to add additional track features (goods yard, depot etc) I want to run local terminating trains with shunt release from the local MPD (possibly off scene) but this invokes the issue of turning trains round so this might have to have a separate fiddle yard under the layout / at the side of the layout I'm tempted at times to switch locations to being at the side of a lake and build ''Rio'' somewhere in Cumbria which is what Milliedale was evolving into until I found I had enough space to make a go of Milliedale - on - Sea as that may fall into place easier. Decisions, decisions.

I don't deny how good it is (would love to see it in the flesh) but, "how to get lynched at an O gauge guild show…."

They are aware that it's not O gauge?...

I know a bike garage under the arches like that!

In a similar vein, a few stone built terraces here with each house a different state of clean, the rain has cleaned a fair bit of soot and muck off them over the last 40 years but a few have been jet washed / blasted clean, others painted and some left how the weather left them

Fit a tortoise motor under the car trying to parallel park so it shuffles back and forwards, don't worry about the car twisting round, be accurate for parking around here if it backs onto the kerb facing the wrong way, and no that is not a comment on my wife's parking

Doing a 3-point turn?

When I started the thread I was thinking little details we notice in our daily lives that aren't modeled, eg, 'red light, wait here' signs always seem to have a dent in them We appear to have de-railed through cameos towards 'how to get lynched...' That is indeed the nature of a forum but, while the 1940's German village could be an accurate depiction, perhaps the discussion on it should be its own thread like the train robbery has had so we can be irreverent of society without forgoing our humanity?

Could substitute whit walk for a protest march, NUM in the 80's for example. Could stretch to a beach fight on the south coast in the 60's but we're straying into cameos here away from the extra detail ideas of earlier

and usually blown inside out by a passing train!

£10 on it being Aboreum Valley A great example of a serious layout not taken too seriously

Have you seen Foster Street's (grim up north topic) elephant train?

Sorry to add a tangent, Jaz, I was wondering how you planned the new town? Was it simply positioning things where they might fit and shuffling until they looked right or did you sit and plan where roads were going to go first?

Traffic cone on a statue's head like a hat.

On my way to work this morning I spotted a couple of things I've not seen modelled before and thought we could compile things we've noticed in our daily life as suggestions / inspiration for adding a bit of character / realism to our modelling. I'll start Motorbikes, while seen on the occasional pre 70's layout where they were a popular cheap mode of transport, especially in large cities I don't think I've seen a modern bike on a modern layout. Odd socks in laybys - every layby I've pulled into recently has a soggy odd sock either on the kerb or on near the exit, not sure how or why Horse poo, if there are horse drawn vehicles, there'll be some horse poo somewhere near by...

How were you getting on with resolving Shapeway's pricing structure? My layout is no more but the new one doesn't have the height restriction the old one had so about to have a browse of your shop and hopefully acquire a chimney.

Those puddles look great!