First Attempt at a Layout (two boxfiles)

[Guest Damo]

The SNCF Society had a modelling challenge for their January rendezvous exhibition involving up to three boxfiles that must be able to fold back into their original state (bar stock and controllers). I decided it sounded like a fun idea, but having never made a layout before I had no real idea where to start. Time went on and come December I thought "######, I've only got about 6 weeks to go!". Therefore work hastily began and whilst I'm familiar with the UK network (the day job sees me driving units in and out of Waterloo), the French system is something I enjoy following as I'm a bit of a Francophile but don't know that much about it. The result is therefore something rivet counters could probably write long lists about, but overall I was happy with the end result (bar forgetting to edit the text on the Fruits et Légumes stall!), particularly given it was created over the course of odd evenings over a few week period - certainly learnt what does (and doesn't!) work in the skills department if nothing else. The layout obviously needed an excuse for why the train (an N-gauge, sound-fitted Arnold X73500 in Languedoc-Roussillon livery) wasn't disappearing anywhere, hence the unfortunate mess on the level crossing. It is a fictional place based in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of the Languedoc-Roussillon (now Occitanie) region of south western France, down near on the Spanish border.

 

I thought I'd share a video and some photos for anyone that may be interested. I hope you like it.

 

http://youtu.be/4F6-4eVUE6s

[rue_d_etropal]

nice effort, assume you got down to the event. I could not get there in the end but did complete the challenge here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/112958-new-ho-layout-using-3-boxfiles/ 

 

You could have added a third box and used that as a fiddle yard