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***, Lets do the math on an around the room design with a center penisula. I will presume 30" aisles. If you have a peninsula, I presume that you want to run around it. This will mean that the size of the end of the peninsula will be determined by your minimum radius. Presuming 24" radius, your peninsula end is now 4 feet. Add that to your 5 feet of aisle (30" X 2) space and you can see that your benchwork on either side will now be 6" wide. Your space is slightly too small for this design using the criteria I just outlined. However there are many other alternatives that can work. 1. Eliminate the peninsula. Take a look a Pelle Selborg's layout in this months MR for a good Plan for this option. With this plan you could have 24" wide benchwork around the walls and have a large area in the middle with possibly some bump outs into the center. 2. Don't run around the peninsula. Things would still be tight but 18" scenes on the walls with a 24" wide stub end peninsula would fit with 30" aisles. 3. Try and adjust the parameters of radius, aisle width and benchwork width to compromise that will work. There never seems to be enough space to build the stuff you want to build. I would opt for a more spacious design. My space is slightly larger than yours and I was able to get the peninsula in but it is very tight. My train buddies and I have concluded with 30" minimum, you need roughly a room 13' feet wide to do a simple peninsula plan with around the walls. My suggestion is to draw a scale grid of your space and then get a track planning template and draw until you get something that will work.
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