F-UnitMad Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 I think I posted this on a previous version of RMweb - some while ago anyway!! So apologies if this is Old News for you Micro & Boxfile enthusiasts, but maybe, hopefully, quite a few of you haven't seen it before. So here's my go at getting standard gauge 7mm scale in a Boxfile..... Un-named Boxfile Layout There's been something of a trend in the world of Micro-layouts to build them in standard A4-size Boxfiles. Someone rather foolishly suggested that they didn't think it could be done in O scale... Well, just for a bit of fun, I then did this:- ..Cheers, Jordan - Somehow I don't think you'll manage to squeeze an O Gauge version into the boxfile, though! Wanna Bet ??? Now will you lot please just pack in all this boxfile nonsense...?!?! NOW look what you made me do.... Yes, that's O scale track.... WITH O scale stock.... AND IT GETS WORSE>>>>> > > > > > > > US O SCALE... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's a few pics of work so far... I'm going to try and use the lid as a loading dock, for vehicles to back up to wagons & tip their loads (scrap most likely, coal/ore/ballast possibilities) into the wagons on the straight track. From the opposite side we see a small loading platform & office (now permenantly on another layout) A higher view shows a bit of the track- two old Lima Setrack pieces that could've been made to measure!!! They sit on a piece of MDF cut to fit, and ballasted with building sand... The Boxfile sides are thin chipboard, and this end needed cutting right through for O scale models. To retain some rigidity I have faced the opening with plastic angle, over a plasticard 'L'-bracket glued to the lid-side bit. Inside this corner is also a small steel angle bracket actually bolted through that side. This pic is a bit dark- the steel bracket should just be visible in the corner by the opening. I've finished the sides of the Boxfile with 'brick walls', taken from a free Internet "Textures" site ( http://www.cgtextures.com ), printed onto ordinary paper and laminated. These will be matt-varnished when the glue has dried fully... I need to make a small cassette 'fiddle siding', which will have the power supply. I'm not attempting the usual backscenes, or at present even any way of 'hiding' the exit - after all, no-one will mistake this for the real thing, but I'll try to add some sense of space by finishing the inside of the lid as roadway, as mentioned earlier. It's certainly taken off rather more than I anticipated when I first stuck those bits of track inside it for a laugh... Oh, and finally, US 40ft Boxcars now foul the platform, by quite a way, due to overhang on that curve... so, yes, that was being a bit silly... The "cassette" is made (thin MDF), it has some Peco Code124 BH track pinned on it, there's a hefty bit of wood for an end stop and also a Diode protecting it, for the nervous or the wild Driver... The power is fed to the cassette; and from there to the rails by brass rod soldered to the outer edges of the rails, that slide onto the other tracks- aligning them & powering at the same time... Okay chaps, use your imaginations... The Dinky Ford D Tipper is tipping something into the wagon from the loading bank, which needs a row of old sleepers along the edge to stop keen or dim drivers from reversing right over it... The loading bank was scenicked with various grey & black sawdusts and some Woodland Scenics turf, with dilute PVA... this caused the cardboard lid to warp dramatically, but fortunately it was easy enough to bend back fairly straight once it was dry. A bit of wood holds it up roughly level for operating - I have not discovered Anti-Gravity... I did add a row of sleepers along the edge of the dock a while later. I still have this layout, although I haven't run it for a couple of years at least, and the Lima rails are going rusty for real!! But it was a good bit of fun, and I hope you have enjoyed it here. Jordan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steam_Julie Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 I guess this means that nobody has an excuse for not having a layout? Julie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cklammer Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 I like the idea of this - yet I should think two or three boxfiles joined together on the short sides would make this even more interesting. It would be a short pointless tuning for layout then ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Holmes Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Ah yes, I remember this well... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nedrahn Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Superb. Carl Arendt would have approved. I might be forced to make a copy of this. The only question is how could I fit a Lima Class 33 into a box file? I've somehow ended up with three of the things in the last year (before someone has a go at me, yes, I appreciate they're far from perfect, but `I don't care). I had no intention of getting into 0 Gauge! On the subject of 'old news', it's worth noting that not all of us have been on RM Web since the start. There's far too much material here to trawl through it all. I don't see that there's anything wrong with refreshing an old subject for a new audience. When I first joined I was attacked by an arrogant and rude member of the old guard, my crime being that I (unwittingly) repeated something that had been discussed a long time before. Shockingly, I hadn't read several years' worth of posts before daring to venture an opinion on a forum that I assumed would be both adult and friendly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted June 5, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2014 I'm thinking of an 0 gauge micro layout in an overhead-locker size flight case, after seeing the thread of a guy with an inspirational S gauge layout he takes on the train to shows. It was Maurice Bonner's 'St Juliot'. Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 Superb. Carl Arendt would have approved. He did .... although offhand I can't recall which Scrapbook Page it appeared in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
switcher 1 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Superb. Carl Arendt would have approved. I might be forced to make a copy of this. The only question is how could I fit a Lima Class 33 into a box file? I've somehow ended up with three of the things in the last year (before someone has a go at me, yes, I appreciate they're far from perfect, but `I don't care). I had no intention of getting into 0 Gauge! On the subject of 'old news', it's worth noting that not all of us have been on RM Web since the start. There's far too much material here to trawl through it all. I don't see that there's anything wrong with refreshing an old subject for a new audience. When I first joined I was attacked by an arrogant and rude member of the old guard, my crime being that I (unwittingly) repeated something that had been discussed a long time before. Shockingly, I hadn't read several years' worth of posts before daring to venture an opinion on a forum that I assumed would be both adult and friendly. As said above it is on Carl's old site, (now under new management); I think you will find it on here under the 7mm special interest group. If you like Lima Class 33's, then that is all that matters, it's your trainset. Regarding the member who forgot he was once a newbie, (sadly you get them everywhere), 'we' really are a friendly & supportive bunch on here, welcome aboard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted June 6, 2014 Author Share Posted June 6, 2014 Found it.... Page 81a on Carl's site, about halfway down. http://www.carendt.com/scrapbook/page81a/index.html Rather embarrassed at the date - Jan 2009, meaning I built it in 2008 - I'd forgotten it's that old.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartleymartin Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Now we await pictures of a Manning Wardle H class with little wagons! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steam_Julie Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 what about a class 66 locomotive? Julie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted July 2, 2014 Author Share Posted July 2, 2014 I've got an Ixion Hudswell Clarke, so that's do-able.... Class 66..??? Now that's just being silly........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted July 2, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2014 Bonkers! ;-p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjcampbell Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Very good! I did an O-scale layout in a boxfile too, but used 14mm (i.e. 2') gauge... it allows a bit more track and trains in! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steam_Julie Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 As an animator, when I draw a tiny part of an iconic object, the viewers eyes and brain see's the whole object. Most of the 66 would remain in the fiddleyard, with only the front of the cab entering the boxfile. Thus the part of the 66 would take up less space, than the whole Hudswell Clarke loco! Julie EDIT Spelling correction Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 I'm not sure a Class 66 would even fit on the fiddleyard 'cassette' (see last 3 pics in the OP)... which itself is longer than the boxfile... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steam_Julie Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I have to concede, that the current fiddleyard could just about contain the 66, but no room for even a single wagon, and hence no point. Julie PS my previous comment was very tongue in cheek Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 PS my previous comment was very tongue in cheek No worries - the whole layout is tongue in cheek...!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddletank Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Cheek by jowl is probably the more appropriate expression for this layout! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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