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Hello Southwell,

 very, very nicely done. You surely have some clever ideas; I really do like your shed.

Best Regards,

Christian

Will this do, Christian?

 

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Yes, very nicely - just a bit of cropping done at the top

Thank you,

Christian

Hello Rod, Howard, all

 me being a bit late to the party due to RL work issues but if you guys like to watch pictures of German/ Austrian/ Slowenian railway tunnelportals then here you go. For Germany the list is pretty much complete; the pictures are linked from the page given order by KBS-number (KBS => Kursbuchstrecke).

 Tunnel portals were at some times considered representative items (especially during Imperial times).

 The layout and the new engine is looking just fabulous!

Best Regards,

Christian

Phone cameras (especially older ones) use very small sensors and thus very short focal-length wide angle lenses designed very much with cost in mind; so barrel lens distortions coupled with the strong wide-angle perspective are common there.

But for an older Nokia the pictures are quite nice - just light your subjects well! Photography means painting with light: less the light less to paint with!

Best Regards,

Christian

"That German 2-10-0" is a German class 50 with the postwar-WWII Bundesbahn modifications and is actually a proverbial branch line engine as it has less than 16 metric tons of axle load and forward/backward top speed of 80 kmh; it was designed towards the end of the 1930ies to be used on branch lines with sub-standard trackage in "conquered territories" during WWII.

(Sticking foot firmly in mouth) A good thing it never ran in real life anywhere on the British Isles!

Together with class 23, 38, 64, 86 the class 50 engines were to run until the early 1970ies on Bundesbahn branch lines in then West Germany; East Germany too, but the engines there were reconstructed and were still running into the early 1990ies in some cases.

Best Regards,

Christian

I've now got about 3' of scenery finished at the approaches to the tunnel:-

 

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Hello Howard,

 very nice but could you please re-take that picture panning slightly to the left and without cutting off any large vegetation: I am in need of a new desktop wallpaper !

Thank you,

Christian

Hello Martyn,

The truly inspiring message of Pott Row is to me that with enough persistence (initially) very daunting modelling tasks/projects can and will be mastered.

 I sincerely hope that the recycling centre can be avoided, though.

Best Regards,

Christian

And that is how you make Märklin C-Track look good!

Very cleverly done with the Lego ... with a spot of glue between that will last forever and a day .... and to me a very viable soluation as my wood working skills are abysmal and can not be considered skills in the first place ...

Your loading dock relief building looks very generic to me: could be the States, Canada, the UḰ or even most places in continental Europe from any time since the 1920ies up to the 1980ies or so ...

A photographic comment: noteworthily (at least to me ) the last image in post #25 show clearly the barrel lens distortion of the lens/camera used - which is actually to be expected but especially to the track.

Best Regards,

Christian

One could divide the oval in five or six (rectangular) segments of wood and pre-install the on them on for faster (dis-)assembly and more efficient storage; in that case, very cheap track Pico A-track can be used.

The large layout carpet model rail blokes use this method quite often, as they often rent venues by the weekend and want to run their trains most the time and not lay track most of the time available for a few hours of running trains ...

OTOH, Trix C-Track also works very well on carpets but it is more expensive (especially switches) ....

Best Regards,

Christian

Sorry if this inquiry exposes my ignorance : In the last picture with the 47458 on the left and the brake van on the right what kind of wagon is the wagon between 47458 and the brake van?

I know very similar looking wagon from the German prototype in era III and IV used for lignite or coal dust.

Best Regards,

Christian

Hello Steve,

This is looking just right (to me at least): very nicely done.

One still gets impressed with a sense of the spaciousness of the prototype. Liking teh figures, too.

IMO no need to put more items/cameos/motives/clutter now.

Best Regards,

Christian

Nicely done, simply elegant!

Hello Howard,

 2x BR 64 with VT798 due to German copyright legal practice just the link and link to bahnbilder.de.

 Some motivation here

Best Regards,

Christian

Hello Paul,

 maybe some sort of intermediate transitional segment to connect Rural Goods to City Goods and run them point-to-point?

 Thus three micro layouts doth one small make ...

Best Regards,

Christian

Looks very nice already!

Zapping yourself may have focused and enhanced your efforts

Best Regards,

Christian

IMO: in OO/HO in such a space one only has a chance with a tuning-fork/single-point track plan or with a pointless track plan .. and the point would most likely be R1 and would be curved. If you stay pointless you'd just need (flexi-)track.

Utilizing the lower level as an underground station or goods shed hat merit, too. London had huge multilevel-goods sheds featuring large wagon elevators once upon a time IIRC - may something like that is a suitable prototype. Or maybe a multilevel mine layout.

Your track plan shown lacks a head shunt as it is.

Best Regards,

Christian

Check the price for the ink first; and then it primarily an economic decision: can I use up the new purchased ink in your printer (printing this and possibly other kits) before it goes and turns turtle on you.

Nowadays, they printer suppliers will sell you cheap printers with tiny first-use ink cartridges in order to sell expensive ink follow-up cartridges for you. 3rd-Party-Refills alleviate that situation somewhat but I have had mixed personal experiences with that, too.

And printing kits will use up ink like nobody's business, too.

My 0,02€ but Rule #1 applies.

Looking forward towards new developments ...

Best regards,

Christian

That you will need to insulate well should you go ahead with the garage conversion goes without saying: you'll need to do the whole box (floor, roof, walls, windows and door).

 No cold feet during winter ....

The best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery!

Paul,

Very nicely done - a pleasure to behold.

But let me fix your current post for you: " I seem to acquire a coffee every time I go for a few coffee stirrers."

Best Regards,

Christian

Jerry,

 ... and then churn out a finished box module/segment per month and after three years you have quite a layout.

 You decide when to stop, if ever.

Best Regards,

Christian

 When opportunities present themselves then they need to be grabbed and used.

 One's opportunity is another one's abomination.

 My take is that we are firmly in rule #1 territory here.

 Nice find and good opportunity is my personal take on this structure.

Best Regards,

Christian

So the dog is huge and the dog house is huge, too - no big deal   But where is the dog?

From what I can see, the garage entrance is very narrow for modern cars (cars have become significantly wider since the millennium.

I'd hesitate attempting to pass through even in a Toyota Aygo or VW Lupo or some such.

As it is, the garage can not even be used to store (decent) bicycles or other portable items since it is open - thus no insurance coverage (to the best of my knowledge).

In your situation, I'd do the conversion and for storage I'd put a fully lockable shed in the garden for gardening equipment.