Exhibitions Layout Features

Hi, I've built / help to build three exhibition layouts over the past 15 years and whilst planning the forth one, it has struck me that I've always prioritized the modelling and the layout over the exhibition side of things, when really they should be developed at the same time. So as part of the planning of the new layout I'm looking at how the layout will be exhibited, but I had a thought about what do the punters at an exhibition want in terms of an exhibition layout?

Did you have the panel "out front" at GETS? I have a feeling that you did, but that it was somehow squashed-in on the RHS (viewed from the front), and a bit buried because of the way your layout butted against adjacent stands. it ended-up making what you were showing look a bit cluttered. My thinking would be as per sketch below, so that you get a clean "front line" on what you are presenting. I'm sure that I've seen a big pre-grouping GWR layout in finescale 0, with some