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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:52 PM

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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:53 PM

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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:59 PM

Chief Mechanic Homer is lovin his new ride

(This would have much nicer to share if the darn format didnt freeze up everytime I tried inserting more than one picture at a time Sheesh! )

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, November 26, 2010 8:26 PM
Here is a full pic, kinda crowded background but it gives a good idea of it overall environment:

The upper layout is removable, I designed it so the top could go to shows, but so far its only been to one (1) show since 2008...so I might just fix it permanantly.
 

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Posted by vsmith on Monday, November 29, 2010 10:59 AM

 

Current schematic plan to date, surprised I never added one, anyways its pretty much done, just adding more details ond peoples to do, figure that tweaking the scenery will keep me busy for a long while.

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Posted by dwbeckett on Monday, November 29, 2010 11:40 AM

looks like you did it alot of track in a small space, good job/work

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Posted by IRB Souther Engineer on Monday, November 29, 2010 4:19 PM

Should enter it in the small RR's contestWink Looks good!

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Posted by vsmith on Monday, November 29, 2010 10:42 PM

I traded e-mails with Rene, they are looking specificly for small garden layouts, with emphisis on how its integrated into the garden landscape environment, given mine resides indoors it really doesnt meet what they are looking for in the contest. She invited me to submit it to GR on its own, when its detailed to the point I find "acceptable" I will do the submission, but this is still a ways from where I want it to be for me to be satisfied with it, maybe in a couple more months Stick out tongue

Betcha if I submit it and it would end up in MR if anywhere LOL Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by dougdagrump on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 2:04 PM

Homer needs a box of doughnuts with him. Clown

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http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Portable%20Layout%205x5%20Scenery%2016.JPG

Chief Mechanic Homer is lovin his new ride

(This would have much nicer to share if the darn format didnt freeze up everytime I tried inserting more than one picture at a time Sheesh! )

 

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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, December 2, 2010 11:05 AM

If ya can find me a 1/24 scale box of donuts I'll pass them along to Homer ;)

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 10:54 PM

I guess I can say that the scenery is done, well for now:

 

Again for whatever reason, this forum WILL NOT let me add more than one picture at a time without freezing up, so I get to add lots of pics one at a bloody picture time...Oh ...joy AngryDevilAngry

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:01 PM

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:07 PM

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:12 PM

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:13 PM

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:13 PM

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:14 PM

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:16 PM

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:19 PM

Its the little details that make this fun

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:22 PM

You can see some of the scale "junk" in these pics, I have always found typical model RRs to way to clean and pristine for my tastes as almost every real railroad I ever have been to (outside of Disneyland) was always littered with junk and trash. So even though my layout is impossibly squashed and foreshorted till its almost infront of its own back, its still got more detail than alot of other layouts I've seen Wink

Even got a short video of the layout to date:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfbM0pUP8_I

The train is a cheeser Lionel job I got on extreme sale for $30 at Big Lots, found out why as the drive was busted but it was fixable, so now I'm experimenting with seing what its potential is.

 

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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:43 PM

I have to face a few facts…

 

…the biggest being that my layout is once again, proving to be too large for my given circumstances. I’m really getting tired of this but between the growing need for more storage space, family issues, my new interest in Marxism (Louis Marx) and the fact that even though its mobile, my layout still literally eats ½ the garage open space…I really can’t keep the layout as it is. I think these problems have been apparent since I took up the fixed layout and began building the mobile layout. Model train layouts regardless of scale, tend to be enormous space eaters. It was the primary reason I dismantled the bigger layout, and this layout is about as small as it can get using R1 track. It’s just that now as I’m moving more things around between the house and the garage that this cannot be ignored again. I don’t want to just drop out of LS altogether, so instead I’m looking at taking down the lower 5’6” part of the mobile and doing probably what I should have done from Day 1 of dismantling the fixed layout, and that is focus 100% on the 3’ square micro layout, I never had any problems when that was all I had. I figure I can reuse 80% of the structures and 100% of the details and figures, the biggest issue facing me is the fact that there is still a sizable chunk of my roster that will never fit on the micro, so another round of sales will be coming up but I do plan to try and rebuild a couple of my favorites that wont currently fit. I seam destined to build micros. First thing to do is a complete photo documentation of the layout as is, then start test fitting structures onto the micro, get ready… I have a feeling this new layout is going to look insane before I’m finished with it. This is going to be quite a challenge…where’s the shoehorn?

 

Here I go… again…..

 

 

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Posted by IRB Souther Engineer on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:56 PM

vsmith

 the biggest issue facing me is the fact that there is still a sizable chunk of my roster that will never fit on the micro, so another round of sales will be coming up    

Where are those sales going to be taking place?

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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 5:48 PM

well...I guess anytime is good enough, PM me with your interests. I'll see anything fits them

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Posted by dwbeckett on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:45 AM

Vic, I enjoyed your last build log and hope to see a new log for the new micro.

Best of luck with your new build.

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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 9:29 AM

Dave, since this is a continuation of the existing portable, I'll just keep this thread going.

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