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Thanks to all for their input. Found an inexpensive baseboard module on eBay which will do the job nicely; search seller “scalemodelscenery”. This is considerably less expensive than the Tim Horn version used by Mr Nevard.

The image of Brew Street is a great inspiration. Anyone have an idea of the actual size, perhaps from the magazine article ?

The baseboard will be 800mm long.

Many thanks for these but even I can’t fit 1.2m into 800mm !

Needed an OO or HO gauge track plan to fit an 800mm x 290mm space. All ideas great fully received. Just want to try out one of those nice modular baseboards from Scale Model Scenery.

May a suggest you have a look at “Dead End” on this forum. A tiny tuning fork example measuring just 27” in length. Apparently size isn’t everything !

I’ve used these before for their tram loco. They state that the bodies fit Hornby 0-4-0 chassis, those without pistons. I have said chassis, it doesn’t fit ! Buyer beware.

I have now sold Puddle Dock and it’s happy in its new home.

Following constructive comments at a recent exhibition appearance of "Kidmore Boxed", I have moved the electrical connector points from the side of the original (LHS) layout to the underneath. This has permitted the creation of a removable scenic infill between the two boxes. So allowing for both the rims of the two boxes and their handles, a small stream has been made to lead up to the connecting bridge (see bridge image with wires showing above). The frame has been created with foam board on a balsa framing with my usual method of polystyrene covered by plaster bandage for the banks. "Water" has been prepared by having five coats of clear varnish finishing with an additional five coats of "Realistic Water".

Spent some time at the weekend ballasting & weathering the track. The modern building has now had a touch of weathering and an air extraction duct added. Next step will be to finalise other buildings and affix in place. Unsure about the two shown above at the front LHS and the exit to the fiddle will need covering; will check what oddments I have in a Walthers box. "Sea" is coming along too having had a number of coats of clear varnish followed by doses of "Realistic Water", the latter appearing to cure well. In the image above the two boats have just been placed & could change. Trust the weathered building now gets approval !

As I said at the beginning of this thread, this a cheap build using up stuff I already have to hand. Some bought but unused for previous layouts & other bits just picked up at exhibitions cos I liked em & thought I “could use that !” . Having now built over twenty five micros in scales from Z to O, I have always run stock as has suited me, after all we build for ourselves, not others. If I like it I run it ....... it’s my model railway after all. I’m not saying the criticism is misplaced, it simply doesn’t fit my build ethos.

Cheers buddy, hope to crack on this weekend.

Don’t worry, by the time I’ve finished it’ll look suitably worn in !

Hornby low relief building now rebadged "Puddle Fisheries". Potential assortment of buildings loosely placed while I make my mind up. Track laid on cork strips awaiting weathering & ballasting.

Not sure whether this qualifies, but here are two Really Useful Box wrapping boxes connected by a short piece of track totalling a running length of 59". Together they form "Kidmore Boxed" (see separate thread). The LH box can be used alone with a fiddle stick.

Having both UK & USA outline rolling stock (OO / HO) with micro layouts to suit, thought I'd put together a simple generic tuning fork measuring 48 x 12" including fiddle that would be suitable for both. Virtually all parts to be sourced from the "spares" box and those items acquired that "may come in useful at some point". The intent is to show a small harbour with partially sunk barge, a modern fisheries depot in low relief ( a Hornby RTP printer's building which will need rebadging), with a fishing boat taken out of the water for repair. First image shows board with some of the selected items to use in build. Harbour walls are plaster parts sourced for an earlier attempt at 009. Have cut the board to facilitate creation of "sea" on a foamboard frame and have given the sea bed a thick coat of a mixture of appropriate colour acrylics. A water surface, a sheet of clear plastic given an appropriate wash on the underside, will rest on the two balsa support pieces. The top I'll finish with several coats of clear vanish rippled with a cocktail stick.

Looks like a good excuse for an Inglenook too me.

Pleased to say I've now completed the extension to Kidmore Boxed in time for Saturday's exhibition in Reading. Images attached with (probably) more to follow. The first shows the two boxes as joined by the micro bridge. May start a new thread on combining two layouts in a modular form.

You might like to know that your baseboard size will fit very nicely into a Really Useful Box wrapping storage box. I’ve done a couple of layouts in these, see threads for “Dead End” and Kidmore Boxed”. The max size for these is 28 x 8” allowing room for fingers !

Have now managed to get scenic treatment done to the short bridge that links the two Really Useful Boxes. Image below. Will be showing "Kidmore Boxed", both boxes, at the Cholsey & Wallingford's Railway Preservation Society model railway exhibition at Kenavon, Reading, on Saturday 23 February. It will be completed by then, I hope !!

Having satisfactorily completed the low relief Skytrex parts (above) , I have placed them in position on the layout. Seems OK. As stated previously, it will not be fixed to the layout as it needs to be removable owing to the height constraints of the layout box. Have also completed a simple electrical connection between the two parts of the layout. Achieved with two connections, firstly simply by connecting a short (removable) section of Peco track between the two boards / boxes, and also by a plug and socket wire between the main power feed and board two. Will get around to giving this a bit of scenic treatment to make it look like a short bridge.

Thanks for kind comment. Oil tank was a resin kit. Initially painted with £ Shop matt black (sold for cars) & then dry brushed with Vallejo gun metal & a mix of weathering powders.

As requested, a couple more images. I note a problem since the site update though, maximum allowable upload is 10mb total.

Pleased to say that I have now completed this micro giving me chance to work on the extension for "Kidmore Boxed" ; see other thread. Images of the finished effort below, all 28 x 8" !

Try www.kidmorengauge.weebly.com. All 5sq feet or less and not limited to N gauge. About thirty layouts or so.