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Good Afternoon, Folks! It´s a gray day here, but, providing our weather guessers are right, tomorrow will be bright and sunny! No wonder, it´s Petra´s birthday! I have to figure out how I can sneak out of the house to get a nice bouquet of flowers for her. With those  glasses of mine, I shouldn´t be driving and the florist is at the other end of the town ... Flo, make that a mug of hot chocolate and a slice of that cherry crumble pie for me, please. All my N scale stuff is packed up and ready for the "Bay". I will have a friend helping me to sell it. With a little luck, I will get sufficient funds to pay off the bigger part for my new glasses and maybe still have a few €€ left to do some MRRing. It´ll be really on a shoe strong budget, something in the area of a set of micro layouts I can put together to form a bigger one at a later stage. Similar to what I did with that Japanese style layout I built some years back. I got the idea from a page I found searching the web. There is a modeler in southern Germany, who built a nice little layout, using ready-made boxes from an arts & crafts supply as the benchwork. Linking (and alignment) is done via standard plugs and sockets -a simple and inexpensive method. The layout is HO scale on 9mm tracks, so it´ll be narrow gauge again (which suits me fine, as narrow gauge is my secret love anyway). Here are a few pics from this layout: The boxes (at $ 8 each): <img src="http://blog.waldbahner.de/wp-content/gallery/h0e-waldbahnhof-1/rohbau_1.jpg" alt=" " /> How the boxes are connected to each other: <img src="http://blog.waldbahner.de//wp-content/gallery/h0e-steckverbinder/steck_2.jpg" alt=" " /> The track plan (adapted to my space requirements) <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/Chemin%20de%20Fer%20Forestiere%20Hunzkirch_zpsvjatwalg.jpg" alt=" " /> I figure on building module 1 and 2, plus a cassette staging as a beginning, with progress according to funds available. Will be dead slow, though. I hope to be able to get a starter set to have something to play with - like this one <img src="http://www.schmidt-wissen.de/out/pictures/master/product/1/646_5081.jpg" alt=" " /> I should have come up with this idea a lot earlier. The concept suits my skills and financial abilities and I am confident I´ll be able to come up with something nice. Still, my level of confidence is not up to what it used to be, but these bit-sized chunks I can swallow! Here is a video of Gerd´s fantastic little layout - do I adore his German accent (Like Herr Flick in "`Allo, `allo"! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DICrkp3qHl0">Waldbahn "Eusserthal"</a> Enloy! Thanks, Gerd, for this great inspiration!
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