Possibly the smallest layout....advice and help..

[Anonymous]

Hello all, i've been an avid reader of model railroader since i was3, and over the years my desire and passion for railroading has never died, and while i await our new HO scale layout to begin this december, i thought i'd take on my own challange

As a young'in growing up, reading MR and operating my now decised layout, i discovered a line of small traisn made by the toy maker Galoob under the micro-machines label. they were in between N scale and Z scale, eminsly small, yet still ran on a plastic track, and packed some good detail. unfortunatly to my knowlege the line is no longer manufactured...

while i just recently rediscoverd these wonderful toys, my mind sprang to life on what i could do with them...

i plan on creating a layout based on these trains, roughly 2 feet by 2 feet. the track would consist of hand laid wire, and hand cut ties, buildings would also be scratchbuilt from balsa and thin lumber. everything else on the layout would be quite conventional, my question is, does anyone know of a good all in one solution for kit-bashing/scratchbuilding/track laying/ scenery building/ all in one website?

helo is greatly appreciated

Ryan

[dgwinup]

Ryan,

I don't know of one website where you can find ALL the information you need. You will probably have to do some research and bookmark the sites you find that interest you.

I am wondering why you are interested in building what is essentially a non-working layout using obsolete parts when you are going to start on an HO layout in a few months? I would think that you would want to spend your time and efforts on the HO layout. Just wondering.

Darrell, staring blankly, but quiet...for now

[pcarrell]

See if any of this helps;

http://carendt.us/index.html

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=Micro+Layout+train&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3Dbf4c61574c067012%26clickedItemRank%3D2%26userQuery%3DMicro%2BLayout%2Btrain%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcarendt.us%252Farticles%252Fsecrets%252F%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPTop%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarendt.us%2Farticles%2Fsecrets%2F

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=Micro+Layout+train&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3Dbf4c61574c067012%26clickedItemRank%3D15%26userQuery%3DMicro%2BLayout%2Btrain%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fweb.syr.edu%252F%257Epdverhey%252Feisenbahn%252Fpuzzle_article.shtml%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPTop%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.syr.edu%2F%7Epdverhey%2Feisenbahn%2Fpuzzle_article.shtml

I don't know if you will find exactly what you are looking for but I know you will come away with lots of ideas. I thought these sites were amazing.

[Anonymous]

thank you very much for the links, people here are very helpful....

to answer your question....i havent done a layout in 10 years, the old one that i had was obsolete in terms of detail and opertion,....thus after a long hiadus from modelling, jumping right back into it would probably result in disastoruos results...that being said. i wanted to create something different......and after reading about small 1/900 scale, yes 1/900...i thought it would be neat to try something a little different. yes the kayout is non operational, but it will serve as a testing grounds, on modeling techniques, scratchbuilding, kit bashing, track laying.. trivial as it may be, i hopw that this micro layout will help in the creation of my full scale new layout...

Thanks once more

Ryan

[Anonymous]

I thought i would say a few words about my upcoming HO layout, carendt, will prove to be of much inspiration for help....unlike some, with full basements just waiting to be crammed full of layouts, mine, is full of nascar displays, my father, controlling all that is, disapproved of my "turn the bathroom into a layout" idea, and thus, ive been limited to a maximum of 4x6 feet. while at this size, it would seem better to do a N-scale layput, again, that was disapproved on, having nearly 30 years of rolling stock and locomotives in HO scale, to my dad would seem a waste to suddenly switch scales. though saddened by not being able to do N-scale, ive found much inspiration from John Allen? and his 3x5 HO layout..soon, i will switch the rolling stock to Kaydee couplers, and then hopefully try some modelling

Ryan