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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by lupo Hi Maureen, do you got your inspiration from LOTR? does your layout resemble any of the structures used in that film? must look cool! makes me curious! [/quote] We started design and planning at the end of 2000, before any of the movies came out. We're not trying to model the vision of the movies. There's a great LOTR tradition where each artist creates their own vision of what the world looks like. And plus, we're modelling the early steam age (and the first electric trolley in the big city), several hundred years after the time of Tolkein's story. Our plan is to get a website up shortly after we have the first track glued down. First table frame is up (Hobbiton/Gray Havens module), pink foam is rising, track is on hand.... If life doesn't keep intervening, at some point we'll actually have trains running. [:I] But the delay in trackwork has worked out well. We now have Atlas code 55 (N) that wasn't available when we started, and we have better DCC options available now. We'll buy the DCC system immediately after track is laid to have the most current options. We've been working on structures steadily all along, so the scenes will fill up pretty rapidly once the trackwork is laid and tested. Right now we're polishing up some fun structures for Hobbiton, putting shopfronts and pubs in arched arcade walls. We now have all of the kits on hand for Gray Havens, Hobbiton, Bree, Rivendell, and Mirkwood, and some for Esgaroth, the Iron Hills, Mordor, Lorien, and Minas Tirith. Many are complete or near-complete. All the unbuilt ones have already had their kit-bashing worked out, sketched, and measured; so we know their exact footprints and how they will fit into the scenes. Cheers, Mo
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