Very easy to level the door with two turnbuckles.
My wife has approved of this door hanging concept. Now I can buy more hardware to suspend more doors and run more trains. Going to have some kind of fun this week.
Two more doors will be suspended in the air for N scale expansion. A turnout will be installed on the BOK Sub leading to other destinations.
Hardware and rope to hang two more doors. There is a trade off between cost and working load limit. For my N scale doors I have gone with 100 lbs minimum.
Two doors suspended and easy to level together. Third door soon. Off to the hobby shop for a few N gauge items to expand the BOK Sub First.
Just rounded the bend. Three tables and counting. Time to bring out more kindling and other gauges.
Can now extend the BOK Sub layout With more kindling.
Next section of the BOK ready to place.
Seven doors up, ten by the end of the day.
As I continue to install airborne doors, I can now experiment with ideas for multi-scale layouts/displays.
Nine doors suspended from the rafters so far. Approximately 142 sq ft all levelled using turnbuckles. Tomorrow I will link the doors together.
Tables (i.e., doors) held together with screw eyes and elastics from my beach lobster claw band collection.
I have a new name for what I am building. I am calling it a 'displayout' as it will have elements of both a traditional model railroad layout (in three scales O, HO, and N) and a museum display. In this case the display topic will be the history of minerals, mines and quarries of Nova Scotia.
That looks so cool! Do the nylon cords ever get in your way or bug you, though?
I'm beginning to realize that Windows 10 and sound decoders have a lot in common. There are so many things you have to change in order to get them to work the way you want.
Eventually the ropes will look like part of the display as they will support all of the lighting. Scenes will be projected onto the walls such as sunrises, sunsets, stars, moon, trees, storm, etc. I do all the videos and photos. There will also be audio recordings, wind, birds, industrial, city, etc. Acoustics was my profession as a scientist, and since I am retired, I can work on this project 24/7 if I really want to.
I have a video of the first test train on the displayout. It's still uploading to Youtube but Ill post before I call it a night.
Here is one loop of the HO test train. All doors are level and linked together with a bit of flexibility. The N gauge will be set up after the railroad show in Truro this weekend and the O gauge later this year when the new Lionel Legacy locomotives are released.
The BOK Sub is a show piece so it gets it's own vintage hard-shell baggage piece.
The BOK Sub made it to the train show today. Had a great time.
Now that the show is over, it's time to expand the BOK Sub. I'll show how it all fits into a vintage suitcase as I unpack it and set up outside.
Level 1
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And put it back together again.
First modification to the BOK Sub will be to rout out a bed for a turnout south of the lake. This will allow the locomotive to back into two mining Spurs.
BOK extension to the mines will look something like this. There is the main mining area and two loading spurs for two different ores.
Not very practical to use my power router on a block that has scenery already so I'll use my miniature router plane.
Heavy and wide antique chisel and a striking knife helping to remove larger sections of wood.