After my disaster with the Mk.I baseboard I've had time to reflect upon the plans for my layout. It's really difficult deciding what to model when a) you've never done it before, B) don't want to make expensive mistakes and c) are conscious of the fact that you don't really know that much about trains. I'm still going to stick with the idea of basing my layout on something that has gone before me so I know at least I'm heading in the roughly the right direction. But the layouts I like the most are those with plenty of scenery, particularly industrial and city. To that end I've decided to widen my N-gauge layout from 9" to 1' and rotate the whole track-plan as much as possible. This has created plenty of space along the front-side and left-hand rear. I may even enclose the rear behind the wall and model a full upper-level scene too.