AlexClass4F

This is what i have done in the evening , í work with green , because in real life , i am a gardener. I hope you can enjoy it !!.

Thanks Marc, I appreciate the words you said. In the meantime I have put together the stop / station building of Chiots and this will be given a paint job, so that it does not look so plastic. Last afternoon I took some pictures for the atmosphere that I want to share with you.

My new railbus. This is the latest one , speciial for the mico , it´s a Belgium on , called Brossel from Piko , wich specially made for Belgium , when i spot this in model i was decide to have this soon .It was a hard way to get one example , because it was not livery in the originally.So i much look by the Neigbours and there he was , I´m happy with it !!.

Change of direction When you like everything and sometimes find it difficult to make the right choice, it is sometimes useful to look further from what you actually want.My experiences with HO is many times that in N. Purchasing equipment is such an issue. So in HO I think almost everything is beautiful, which is why I made a conscious choice to go for Belgian and French. Small-scale because at least it remains fun and handy. you can always see how or what.

The next days , you gonna see more , meanwhile i bought a new locomotive for my microlayout . The SNCF C61000 is a very cheap model from Jouef by Hornby. It runs very quiet and i was satisfied for the results . The cost of the loco is E43,78, it´s a aburd price when you gonna buy a loco from Roco ,you pay a lots of more for a simple shunting locomotive.

When the ballast is dry, the i glue in between some grass-polls and some heather . The next days i am starting with the scenery around the track. A little scenery is a start of what become of a temporary end of the track , where you can find the trees and shrubs between the track.

A nice scene in a terrific setting !!

Today i´m started to paint the diorama to build , next time when it was dry i´m gonna lay cork with Piko A railflex.wires i had before soldered. The rails are painted in a rusty colour and now it´s time to go ballast.

The extansion In the meantime I have started to expand on the whole. The plan , is almost te same except the industry and will portray a local nationwide station, which will be near the end of the shutdown. Gare de Chiots , Chiots means puppy´s ,a word that I would sound typically French and again a kind of joke. For the future , i thinking to buy a railcar ,so that I can commute with this. The environment is dressed a bit messy as it happened in those days when the railway lines were on the verge of disbanding. The extension can also function as an independent whole.

This is one of my favorites to follow !!

Inspiration 2 The last few weeks I have been mainly busy with decorating my micro. Pictures like wanting to help in real life help me to progress. Without it becoming overcrowded, and that is quite fast with a project of this size, it is important to see what you can and what you should do. In the future I will expand it with another piece, in the form of a separation between the existing part and the part that is to come. You then get 2 viewing boxes with a separation that are still connected to each other. The separation ensures that I can also park certain trains out of sight.I show what I mean by means of a schematic drawing.I also took some examples from Google maps to give you an idea. Pure, French.

Inspiration When you see all those beautiful and special minis on this forum, among other things, you will automatically feel like building something to your own taste. I already have quite a bit of experience with building these kinds of projects and now it was good to start building something new. I wanted to share it with others and with people who are also considering building something but not really daring to by trying things out you gradually learn to look at them more critically. My inspiration comes from the internet, a place where I have never been but I can imagine how it could be. Google maps provided the solution for me. After all, I have a locomotive and an inspection train. During one of the holidays. s I bought a second locomotive, keeping in mind that after the holidays I would do something with it. Google Maps, where I had already taken my inspiration from before, was turned back on and I soon learned that I didn't want to recreate the exact plan, I had to make a choice and consider what was important to me. In order to make a small layout, I thought that the most important elements of the example should come to the fore. There also had to be some personal things like giving it a personal twist. In my case, that worked out quite well. I know that many forum members read my topic here, maybe it is to use an example, you can always ask how or what did I do with it. A tip that I want to give everyone to be able to start or not yet tack, just start !!. If it doesn't work in one go, keep trying. By trying several times, you will get a better result. Decide what is important to you !!.

But in The Netherlands where i live not, as you´re translate from Dutch language to French ,then this is the solution. Moreover, it has to be a word joke and it does not necessarily have to be good. You can think of things in your own imagination that don't happen in real life.Thanks for the remark.

And i follow too !!

When it comes to the finish, then you take care of small details such as the finish of the whole micro. This micro is not ready yet,because i must make some modifications to it ,it's nice to add extra things to make it even more lively. The framing is important for the overall picture, especially if you want to go out with it. The letters on the wood strip come from a cheap all-hand shop, the name Rue de industrie in French means street of the industry. in the end I chose to make it a Belgian or French theme. L91976 is a made-up number that indicates the railway line where the industry lies. 91976 is also my year and month of birth, kind of a pun.

When your building a micro ,it is useful to use models to see what the best result is. Sometimes it is easy to have several options.

When you have more scales of trains , then will it help when your building surroundings in an era you want. I have HO and N scale , for example , i have an typical Dutch trainlayout where i can move my trains run a round . Sometimes the club which I am a member of, asked to build a sort of diorama , when it-s open days in the weekend once a year. Many negative responses are by members in an another forum, decided me to stop my contribution there to tell how it´s make. There also positive feedback but a wee good suggestions. My 2nd micro is 50cm long and 20cm wide, the height is 25cm.

A new extansion to come.

I have found that it is the best solution for me. If you try to do everything at once, you will not see the overview and you will get bored quickly. Usually you start small and expand, in this case I built a module to be able to use it, but due to circumstances, including a move, that was canceled. In this case, this option is the best solution for me. I am used to building small dioramas and microlayouts.

The module stands in the corner of the hobbyroom , the next days i´m gonna build a next exstansion , for more fun to build and operations in the future.

When you look for ideas and for what your project could have that enormous impetus, you discover that not everything is possible on a small surface. The great thing about this forum is that everyone builds their own way and that it gives you enough inspiration to look at others. Of course everyone has their favorites. I started with a small extension that I think does a good job of building the minimum needed. If you want to know something, feel free to ask.

About 2 years a go ,i started to make a micro for my n scale trains . I want a point to point railway so i can enjoy the trains keep easy running on the track ,and when i´m home from work i can relaxed in my own hobbyroom . Some layoutinformation ; 85cm x 20cm , German /Tjechien based freelance railway.N scale DC/DCC Era 5/6 Village theme.

A little update . A background appeared, the light is not finally , so i must look for a better solution. when is look at it , it give more little ideas to complete it , i think for some telegraphpoles with some lanterns, add some people , less cars .