Have fun with your trains
Chief Mechanic Homer is lovin his new ride
(This would have much nicer to share if the darn format didnt freeze up everytime I tried inserting more than one picture at a time Sheesh! )
Current schematic plan to date, surprised I never added one, anyways its pretty much done, just adding more details ond peoples to do, figure that tweaking the scenery will keep me busy for a long while.
looks like you did it alot of track in a small space, good job/work
Dave still recovering
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Should enter it in the small RR's contest Looks good!
I traded e-mails with Rene, they are looking specificly for small garden layouts, with emphisis on how its integrated into the garden landscape environment, given mine resides indoors it really doesnt meet what they are looking for in the contest. She invited me to submit it to GR on its own, when its detailed to the point I find "acceptable" I will do the submission, but this is still a ways from where I want it to be for me to be satisfied with it, maybe in a couple more months
Betcha if I submit it and it would end up in MR if anywhere LOL
Homer needs a box of doughnuts with him.
vsmith Chief Mechanic Homer is lovin his new ride (This would have much nicer to share if the darn format didnt freeze up everytime I tried inserting more than one picture at a time Sheesh! )
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If ya can find me a 1/24 scale box of donuts I'll pass them along to Homer ;)
I guess I can say that the scenery is done, well for now:
Again for whatever reason, this forum WILL NOT let me add more than one picture at a time without freezing up, so I get to add lots of pics one at a bloody picture time...Oh ...joy
Homage to Petticoat Junction
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Its the little details that make this fun
You can see some of the scale "junk" in these pics, I have always found typical model RRs to way to clean and pristine for my tastes as almost every real railroad I ever have been to (outside of Disneyland) was always littered with junk and trash. So even though my layout is impossibly squashed and foreshorted till its almost infront of its own back, its still got more detail than alot of other layouts I've seen
Even got a short video of the layout to date:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfbM0pUP8_I
The train is a cheeser Lionel job I got on extreme sale for $30 at Big Lots, found out why as the drive was busted but it was fixable, so now I'm experimenting with seing what its potential is.
I have to face a few facts… …the biggest being that my layout is once again, proving to be too large for my given circumstances. I’m really getting tired of this but between the growing need for more storage space, family issues, my new interest in Marxism (Louis Marx) and the fact that even though its mobile, my layout still literally eats ½ the garage open space…I really can’t keep the layout as it is. I think these problems have been apparent since I took up the fixed layout and began building the mobile layout. Model train layouts regardless of scale, tend to be enormous space eaters. It was the primary reason I dismantled the bigger layout, and this layout is about as small as it can get using R1 track. It’s just that now as I’m moving more things around between the house and the garage that this cannot be ignored again. I don’t want to just drop out of LS altogether, so instead I’m looking at taking down the lower 5’6” part of the mobile and doing probably what I should have done from Day 1 of dismantling the fixed layout, and that is focus 100% on the 3’ square micro layout, I never had any problems when that was all I had. I figure I can reuse 80% of the structures and 100% of the details and figures, the biggest issue facing me is the fact that there is still a sizable chunk of my roster that will never fit on the micro, so another round of sales will be coming up but I do plan to try and rebuild a couple of my favorites that wont currently fit. I seam destined to build micros. First thing to do is a complete photo documentation of the layout as is, then start test fitting structures onto the micro, get ready… I have a feeling this new layout is going to look insane before I’m finished with it. This is going to be quite a challenge…where’s the shoehorn? Here I go… again…..
I have to face a few facts…
…the biggest being that my layout is once again, proving to be too large for my given circumstances. I’m really getting tired of this but between the growing need for more storage space, family issues, my new interest in Marxism (Louis Marx) and the fact that even though its mobile, my layout still literally eats ½ the garage open space…I really can’t keep the layout as it is. I think these problems have been apparent since I took up the fixed layout and began building the mobile layout. Model train layouts regardless of scale, tend to be enormous space eaters. It was the primary reason I dismantled the bigger layout, and this layout is about as small as it can get using R1 track. It’s just that now as I’m moving more things around between the house and the garage that this cannot be ignored again. I don’t want to just drop out of LS altogether, so instead I’m looking at taking down the lower 5’6” part of the mobile and doing probably what I should have done from Day 1 of dismantling the fixed layout, and that is focus 100% on the 3’ square micro layout, I never had any problems when that was all I had. I figure I can reuse 80% of the structures and 100% of the details and figures, the biggest issue facing me is the fact that there is still a sizable chunk of my roster that will never fit on the micro, so another round of sales will be coming up but I do plan to try and rebuild a couple of my favorites that wont currently fit. I seam destined to build micros. First thing to do is a complete photo documentation of the layout as is, then start test fitting structures onto the micro, get ready… I have a feeling this new layout is going to look insane before I’m finished with it. This is going to be quite a challenge…where’s the shoehorn?
Here I go… again…..
vsmith the biggest issue facing me is the fact that there is still a sizable chunk of my roster that will never fit on the micro, so another round of sales will be coming up
the biggest issue facing me is the fact that there is still a sizable chunk of my roster that will never fit on the micro, so another round of sales will be coming up
Where are those sales going to be taking place?
well...I guess anytime is good enough, PM me with your interests. I'll see anything fits them
Vic, I enjoyed your last build log and hope to see a new log for the new micro.
Best of luck with your new build.
Dave
Dave, since this is a continuation of the existing portable, I'll just keep this thread going.
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