Hello all, this is what I've been working on and off for the last year, its a eight by two end to end layout that I intent as a 'what if' terminus of a once mooted extension to the Ballinuig to Aberfeldy line. Originally the station at Aberfeldy was to have been sited at the foot of Chapel Street and the line would've pushed further in to Breadalbane, to Kenmore. No plan of this terminus, but Kenmore is far from substantial, so probably a very small affair.
I therefore chose Dalerb, a little spit of land on the northern side of Loch Tay, soon to be home to the New Crannog Centre. Given that its relatively flat and quite close to Kenmore anyway, it seems as good a theoretical location as any for the station. But this thread isn't about the location of the layout, but getting the project restarted as whole.
So here's how far I've gotten
The foam isn't affixed to the boards, the problem I'm having is the fiddle yard, the constraints of the room mean that the yard will either require the trains to enter via a curve, or it will have to be in a partition on the layout itself. I'm also not really happy with the backscene board, its reduces the space I have and its not really square, I'd like to attach it to the boards proper with bracing.
That brings me to the elephant in the room, due to my inexperience and the lack of a dedicated workspace at home, I had to effectively commandeer the living room to build it, the layout is not as square as I would like it, it is, miraculously, level. But you'll see the problem with these cruel close ups.
One idea I've had to get around the fiddle yard issue, is to build cassettes that could 'hang' on the left hand side of the layout, in the slot there you see on the third photo down, and then flip the track plan from Left to Right. Incidentally here is the track plan I came up with.
So I'm eager to here what your ideas are, the only bad solution is no solution.
Yours
ScR.