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By the way how big is the layout? :wink: End to end it's exactly 5m with a width of 40cm at the narrowest and 80cm at the widest. I'm currently deciding what to do with either end. I don't want an end to end layout so don't know if to put a loop in at either end and effectively have a dog's bone sh...

Thanks for all the comments. Got a bit bored of track laying and wiring so have started some scenery work. Made a start on the quarry area with the foundations of a road. I've got the woodland scenics road kit for this job, so watch this space. Also dug out the background I bought ages ago, what a d...

Simple but effective, I'll give this a go.

Thanks

I like the idea. Does it really work for DCC though, as the polarity is never reversed?

sishades wrote:Am I allowed to say "kool layout"?

You can for me. You'll be saying "Kool desk" when I get it finished!

In an attempt to do you guys a track plan without spending too much time on the computer (i.e. give myself more time to model). I have taken photos from right to left of the layout and tried to merge them together. This failed miserably... So from right to left, here goes (please merge in your head)...

I said I'd do this and then never did. A PM from Leon has kicked me into action:

Here is a slide show of the layout coming out of the loft bit by bit.

Hi, Just trying to catch up here... I didn't realise you'd left the other thread behind and gone out into the garage. What about your control panel in the loft? Did that get completed or is it getting modified for the garage? That, after all was the subject of probobally one of the greatest U tube v...

Hope everyone has got what they wanted for Christmas. I've personally been given quite a bit of woodlandscenics stuff and a scaledale bridge you will see shortly. Well, I've managed to get a bit done since the last update. I've completed the lounge (inc laminate floor), finished the bathroom and als...

Thanks for all the comments guys, good to be back! Let me know Mark when you are in the Leeds area blowing things up :wink: Weekend before bonfirenight is always good at my house! I live about 20 mins from Leeds but ironically only done 1 display in Leeds ever. This weekend is the last job of the ye...

Long time no post Mark. been spending all you time getting ready for Nov 5th? Funny you say that, it went down like a lead balloon when after just moving house I went away for a week on a tour raound the UK doing firework displays... Anyone living north of Ipswich, just to let you know there will b...

peak wrote:How much of the garage have you got to play with?

I've got it all but I also need to use it as an office and ideally want to keep access to the doors.

Why do you have a plan?

Hi all, I'm pleased to say I'm finally back in the land of the modelling. :D After putting the house on the market in April 07, 2 fall throughs later :cry: and here we are. :D I'm pleased to say the layout came out of the loft OK and has now been promoted to the Garage. Downside is, it won't be as b...

hi my other half and i have decided that we don't want to move at the moment as it would be expensive and would probably mean being less better off on a month by month basis Absolutely, I agree after having finally moved, it's a nightmare, takes forever, costs a fortune and all the way along your r...

these things can send you up the wall at times!!!! I'm offically up it. After carefully dismantling the layout and getting it out of the loft. On the week of exhanging contracts my buyer has pulled out! So I'm now ~£1000 down, my layout is 10 miles away in my father-in-laws garage stacked up and I...