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Big fan of Everard Junction on YouTube. Glad to see you here as well. Keep up the good work. Alan

Great layout, look forward to more pics Alan

great layout David. Love the detail. Alan

Great layout and great photos. Alan

Thanks Ian, look forward to seeing Banbury in rail express. I'm working towards a long shelf layout with station in middle and looking for inspiration from yours. Alan

Great layout, well done Alan

That's a great layout you have there lots of detail / realism. I might of missed it as I was looking through but could you let us know how big the layout is and a track plan? cheers Alan

Wow Scott, I admire your courage to take on a big layout. Lots of work in store for you to get it all together, especially with the droppers! Very lucky to win the competition. The trip to the USA looks awesome, I would love to go to the Smithsonian. Alan

Wow Andy, I've just been doing a quick tour of all your layouts. Have to say they are all awesome, some great scratch built stuff and detail. What are you going to do next? Alan

Great layout, love the roof line of the depot. Alan

Look forward to watching this develop. Like the new drawings and amazed you have started making buildings already. Very jealous, I'm still playing with metcalf kits!

Great work Andy. The scenery is excellent

Looks really good mate, look forward to watching it progress.

Nice one, well done, look forward to a video of those running. Alan

Happy new year Great Northern. Aerial shots look great. You have a really impressive fleet of engines and coaches.

Happy retirement and good luck with the layout.

Yes it is annoying when you have to share the shop with someone else! Last week I was nearly knocked over by somebody in a rush to pick up a TV mag! Very funny campaman, me thinks Victor Meldrew lives on in us all. Ha Ha

I shall take a crafty look next time I go to tesco!

Thanks for the replies. Lots of food for thought. Alastair, thanks for the link to the £100 thread. it was indeed the nov brm mag that I was thinking of. So much more to see in the thread than in the mag. I think micro layouts are definatly the way forward for practicing scenery techniques. After my first experience of creating a layout I have learned from alsorts of mistakes that I have made. The great advantage of using cardboard as a baseboard is the fact that your just recycling unwanted stuff and I wouldn't feel bad about throwing it away. Cheers Alan

excellent piece of work. I am new to modelling. When I read about this in nov brm I was inspired to get on with my first layout using stuff from the garage and scraps of cardboard, polystyrene and paper mash on a a wooden baseboard. I will try to model on some card boxes to practice my scenery skills. Nice one mate.

In a recent rail model mag I saw an article about building a model scene for less than £100. I think it was OO gauge. Looked great to me. Anyway, was wondering if any one has built a layout with strong cardboard as the baseboard and if so how long did it last for? personally I might have a go with that technique so that I can practice and develop modelling skills at a very nice price. What do you all think?

Nice project. Impressed with level of detail. Just goes to show that you don't have to build big ovals or long tracks to have fun.

Being new to the forum And living in Peterborough I have been reading this thread for a few days. Your layout is absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing, the pics are great. Alan

Hi, I am new to this forum and relatively new to modelling. Have seen both ring road and cross street and think they are great. Thanks for sharing them they are inspirational. Alan