Przemekk

I am starting to feel tired and this means I will have to take a longer break from building my layout. It is a good time to rest though, because I finished a serious milestone: Traverser is ready. It was quite some job (at least for me), I assembled a stiff box for traverser to sit on and glued the flex rails to the box. After a lot of back and forth work I have around 1,5 mm difference between box and the track (The track is leaning over the box) and right now it stays like this. Maybe I will sand it down, maybe not, we'll see how it goes. The Traverser has some problems with staying in place, but I think it serves it's purpose. I will test it in the following weeks. I also need to make a second box for the scenic part. I discovered I will need some help with OO scale in general. I found this modelling dimensions: https://www.elginmodelrailwayclub.co.uk/2010/articles/advice/standard-railway-modelling-dimmensions.html But I still don't fully understand them. My first question is : what is the length of ebankment, when the rails are laying flat and we must take into condiseration I model roughly 1930's?

First of All I would like to thank you for such a warm welcome in this community! This journey may be a long one (I planned it for 2 years) but I did the first step already, so keep fingers crossed. After long phase of planning I arrived with a final layout design. It will be a country layout (My wife appreciated this idea to my amazement). I am thinking about 1920's, but shifiting it 20 years ahead shouldn't be a big problem. I want a cattle dock, a crane, goods shed and loading bay. It seems I will have to build most of those from scratch, because of size constraints. I also wanted 3 tracks and one point. I think it looks reasonable. Today I have made initial attempt at traverser. I came up with idea for it long time ago and I wanted to try it out. I am a bit affraid about holding it in place after choosing a position, but that is a problem for another time. Below is my final plan and a picture of traverser in progress. I spend around an hour running a loco back and forth and it was quite pleasing experience.

Hello, My name is Przemek (a traditional slavic name that most people can't pronounce), I am 36, I live in Poland and I want to built a micro layout in OO scale. I have around 5 years of experience in railway modelling. So far I have finished some dioramas in H0 scale, mostly depicting german railways. Recently I joined a local railway club so hopefully my colleagues will help me when I will encounter some difficulties. Why OO scale layout? The answer is easy: 1. I want to build a micro layout because I live in a small flat. 2. I found a lot of information about british railways online. 3. Modelling era 2 or 3 gives me a chance to built something super small and quite realistic. So far I bought a Hornby Highland Rambler starter set (My budget is limited). It contains a Pug locomotive and I want to use it for my layout. It will be a goods yard set probably in 1920's as Highland Railway was operating roughly then. I have prepared a few versions of my layout. I would like to know your opinion about them as I would like to lay tracks propably next month. Tell me if I made some mistakes, which version do you like the most and why?