Elliot Friend

Cork track bed laid down using Jarvis 1/16 cork roll. Now ready for wiring!

So after 3 weeks of searching in these hard times, I finally have all the items to start laying track! All in peco code 55. Good to get back on the layout.

Temporarily fitted the retaining walls to see how it’s looking. Really happy with the results.

Just finished sticking the back scene down. Will be covering up the gap in between the terrace houses and the pub with another terrace house but cut in half. Now for a marathon of building all the retaining walls!

This is looking good, looking forward to seeing more. I do like how you’ve got both boards in the box.

View glue arrived today along with the rest of the metcalfe kits. Which meant I could finally start sticking the sky scene on. Came out quite well.

looking great! keep up the good work!

Cheers, one BB017 & one BB021 extension. Thanks!

Roughly positioning the townscene back scene to see how it will look.

Playing around with ideas for a cassette storage fiddle yard. Milled 2 slots in some acetal to the width of N gauge measurements. The rails are then glued in with araldite. Will be testing if my measurements were right later!

Started cutting out the backscene which will be glued onto the peco sky backscene. Also sealing the MDF SMS baseboards.

Small update: whilst I wait for a backscene to turn up, cracking on with some of the buildings. The corner pub has been slightly modified to have a larger courtyard which will have a few beer barrels and tables in. Still need to make a wall around it.

Layout is looking great Jerry, looking forward to see how the bridge gets on! Elliot.

Plan 1 and good luck with the project!

What LEDs did you use in the in the bunkers? Looking Grade A!

Bought a couple of the peco sky back scenes. Couldn’t find a town scene which I liked. Any thoughts on if it looks good or not?

Just planning out a cassette storage system which i could make at work. Each board will have two tracks and be able to locate on either track coming from the layout using dowels for alignment. i wont start it until the track has been laid. cheers for the suggestions.

Haven’t even bought the track yet so that’s a good thought! The raised infrastructure has supports going through it so may be difficult plus when I extend it I won’t be able to access the kickback. The fiddle yard is also undecided on track plan. I wanted a transversing fiddle yard but due to the thin material used for the baseboards, the idea was put to rest. Thanks for the idea tho appreciate it! Thanks!

Thanks for your input. This will be a fictional layout. I’ve found several brick bridges in the area. As for the retaining walls, I prefer the look of the brick ones over the stone ones supplied by metcalfe. This is my imagination of what this siding would of looked like. It’s also based in the late 50’s. cheers!

Spent yesterday and tonight making the raised infrastructure for the low relief back scene, also trial fitting one of many terrace houses and bridge. Next on the to do list is to buy the back scene sky and some more buildings.

Yeah they do, love how modular they are.

The main board is made up with the left end of the BB017 whilst the right end is the extension BB021. The fiddle yard is the other end of the BB017 but turned around if that makes sense. Hi Jerry, thanks I will try and keep updates as regular as I can!

After the boards had finished drying last night I test fitted the detachable fiddle yard. The whole layout measuring just under 5 1/2 ft long!

So getting the house ready for an additional family member, i lack the space to continue with my bigger exhibition planned layout. So I’ve chosen to start something a little bit smaller that I can take to exhibitions. Using scale model scenery’s modular base board BB017 which fits into a Christmas tree box. The plan is a fictional siding off the western mainline in east Brislington of Bristol. East Brislington is also served with a main line station that has 3 platforms. Two of which serve the up and down lines and also a third that serves as a terminus for a branch line down to join the former Bristol & North Somerset railway which linked the city to the towns of Somerset coalfields. The station section will be featured on 2 other boards in the future, but for now it will focus on the sidings.