Ian Holmes

The website says 11lbs

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20078031/

So not heavy at all

The APA box goes together quickly and is very rigid. What I've done on this one is add a layer of expanded polystyrene topped with cork sheet to bring it up to the level of the box frame.

You can photograph to your hearts content as long as you don't use flash. I had my DSLR set at ISO 1600 to hand hold my shots. The image stabilisation on my Canon helped a lot too.

Good luck with the P4 project. I've been amassing P4 bits and pieces over the past few year with the intent of starting a layout. But so far I haven't got very far.

Wouldn't be any good calling the blog "Protocrastinations" if I didn't keep getting distracted now would it ;-)

Thanks for this posting. You got me looking at the IKEA lighting for my APA box creations. Are you considering the DIODER or INREDA strip lights?

Ian

Looking great.

The mirroring on the right and all the associated "anomalies" bothers me too when seen like this but that area butts up so close to the edge of one of the buildings that its barely noticeable when I put it in place on the layout

I just threw some P4 track into an APA box (28" x 14") and it will fit (albeit rather tight) in P4 using A5 turnouts.

I know what you mean with the classic sports car analogy. My '76 MGB developed an interesting "short" whereby the brake lights, indicators and side lights on the left hand side only don't work.

Thanks Will; We've been very lucky with the lack of snow in Minnesota this winter. So getting these photos has been much easier than it could have been.

Roger:

There's three spots actually on the layout. Though I could always imagine there's more spots inside the building rear right. The building rear right doesn't actually need need an opening in the rear wall but I'll probably put one in there just in case.

Very impressed by your ingenuity and vision, and suitably inspired I might add.

Those are 3D Prints? I never cease to be amazed at what you folks with the ability and aptitude to work with this 3D process can do. Excellent.

and with all the small stations that there were/are along the Cambrian coast it's all very very believeable

That "half a switch" was a full switch. This bing maps birds eye view from only 2010 http://binged.it/wBt8Br shows a flat car on that siding. I've seen an older view, Google earth I think, that shows several cars lined up at the structure that siding serves.

Roger:

Thanks for the interest I'm sorry I missed your question yesterday. I've cut a piece of 18mm thick white expanded polystyrene foam to fit inside the base and then covered that with some 2mm thick cork. That still came up slightly short of the required depth to match up with the top of the pine frame. So tonight I've just added a second layer of 2mm cork cut to the shape of the track bed. This is pretty much a perfect match depth wise.

That's a very clever conversion. It certainly passes as some kind of Hunslet style loco. Even better that it's a first attempt.

Love the pictures Al, the whole layout is looking great.

Ian

Awesome work

Ian

Looks great.

Looks like a layout to me Geoff, and very nicely done too.

Ian

Thanks James.

Perhaps I can transfer the Nuclear flask terminal to the wilds of the Lincolnshire coast and make the concept workable

Looks very impressive now I see the big picture

It's a diorama no question.

BUT

If you popped a platform on there and ran a DMU in and out of it to and from a fiddle yard. it would be layout. No question.

Put a simple platfrom kit up there on top of the embankment. You know it makes sense

Ian

I don't need templot... I've got more than enough ideas here... http://4mmscaleagonies.blogspot.com/search/label/plans