help with layout please?

[Gryphon]

So this weekend I need to pick up a cirular saw to cut my table into to more 2'x4' sections.

[Anonymous]

Good for ye!

Let's just say that a slightly modified crossover wye is being worked on in my own line. It's just too good to pass up.

Cookie cutter is ok, but I lean towards WS Risers and inclines as the gold standard these days. Be lighter too.

[cuyama]

Sections are a great idea. 2'X4' is kind of short for HO, in my experience. Makes for a lot of sectional joints and limits where turnouts can go easily.

There's also no reason they all have to be the same size and shape. Come up with an interesting layout first, then decide how to break it into sections based on the trackplan, easily movable segments, etc.

Byron

[Gryphon]

Good for ye!

Let's just say that a slightly modified crossover wye is being worked on in my own line. It's just too good to pass up.

Cookie cutter is ok, but I lean towards WS Risers and inclines as the gold standard these days. Be lighter too.

 

What is a WS Riser??? 

[Vail and Southwestern RR]

http://www.woodlandscenics.com/

FoamSystem>>Foam Products>>Risers

 

[Gryphon]

Duh! I'm a retard! I have the WS spiral book for making scenery.

[reklein]

Hey Gryphon!! If you don't have any saw and live in an apt.Yu might consider a battery powered reciprocating saw. By using different blades you can modify old work,Aaccuratley cut out new work and use a narrow blade to do your cookie cutter work all for the same price as a circular saw.You can cut nails and plastic pipe, metal pipe, and prune trees with these little goodies.  Look at HD for one.

[Gryphon]

Thanks for the tip.

 

 

[ukrailroader]

Don't forget the reversing module?????????

ukrailroader

[Gryphon]

 

The "more experienced modelers" are going to tell you that what you have isn't real practical due to the shape you're confined to using. The width vs. length doesn't lend itself to much more than an circle or oval. Why are you locked into this benchwork shape?

 

The Dinning room area of or apartment is what I am allowed to use. Thinking of having two 2"X4' modules and a some sortof short module to make a 90 degree tun then another 2'X4' module. This seems to perhaps be more practical and then I could always take them to modular groups.

 

So a year of messing around and exactly what you all said is true. a 6'X4' with a 2'X4" wing just isn't really usable space. So when I get the chance down comes the bench work to be turned into modular sections.