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How many layouts have you built and what did you learn from them?
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two HO layouts. The first one was on 5/8" plywood, which bowed at the ends because the girders weren't long enough, and I tried to make it "cookie cutter" after that, which was a disaster. The second one was on 3/4" plywood, still not perfect, because I hadn't done the cookie cutter technique. Now it was just a flat 4 X 8 but I had a two-track main with 22" and 18" radius curves. I learned a lot about block wiring, I had all of the switches wired up and controlled from a single control panel. I had a crossover line that ran from one side of the layout to the other, which taught me to respect polarity. <br /> <br />I had tried to start scenery, using Sculptamold and following the pointers in the how-to books, I made a thorough mess of things. It was either too stiff or too wet and I just gave up on making scenery. <br /> <br />That was 14 years ago, and due to military constraints, I didn't start building another layout. I'm working on two different layouts now, one in HO and one in N, and while the N won't be very large, I think that I'll make it DCC, since I like the control that DCC gives. The HO will definitely be DCC. Techniques for modelling scenery are new - we didn't use extruded foam, but acoustic ceiling tiles were great for retaining walls, stratified rock, etc. <br /> <br />Nonetheless, I had fun building that layout and I'm sure that I'll have fun with these and any future layouts I build.
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