The Line To Honeywell
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Lofty
Raider wrote:Rumour has it that there has been movement in the Honeywell loft this evening. As yet these reports are unconfirmed.
The movements in this place usually tend to be of the bowel variety.. Though on this occasion I admit I have been into the railway room as I like to call it.
Over 3 months after we bought the place and moved in I've finally made the effort to get up there and measure the main piece of railway space.
Sketch picture possibly to follow..
Ok, here it is.. (apologies for very rough nature, it's literally what I was scribbling on up the loft while measuring. All measurements in mm)
http://www.thelinetohoneywell.com/photo ... ements.jpg
Some words of explanation:
The outer area measured is what I'd term the usable area. Outside of that there is more room should I need it, but the headroom starts becoming an issue unless I'm careful what I put there as the roof is getting rather low.
The thin rectangle shaped items are brick built uprights supporting the roof. The open space above the top upright is usable up to a point, but it's one of the low bits of roof, so if anything it's likely to be greenery or something to mask the back of the model.
I'll transpose the XTrkCAD onto it at some stage to give a (very) rough idea how things are going to work.
To complete the story for now, the space where the loft 'disappears' at the bottom of the picture has more room, but it'll be where there is a bit of a run for the trains.. Low priority for now until the main section starts progressing.
Rich.
http://www.thelinetohoneywell.com/photo ... ements.jpg
Some words of explanation:
The outer area measured is what I'd term the usable area. Outside of that there is more room should I need it, but the headroom starts becoming an issue unless I'm careful what I put there as the roof is getting rather low.
The thin rectangle shaped items are brick built uprights supporting the roof. The open space above the top upright is usable up to a point, but it's one of the low bits of roof, so if anything it's likely to be greenery or something to mask the back of the model.
I'll transpose the XTrkCAD onto it at some stage to give a (very) rough idea how things are going to work.
To complete the story for now, the space where the loft 'disappears' at the bottom of the picture has more room, but it'll be where there is a bit of a run for the trains.. Low priority for now until the main section starts progressing.
Rich.
Ok..
The sketched measurements picture is well and truly out of scale, so it's making things look like the trains are going to run headlong into the walls, but this should give you an idea how things are going to be.
Once I've done it on computer to scale and overlaid my XTrkCAD plan again it should be nearer the mark (though the CAD plan was done before I knew any measurements up the loft, so it will need to be tweaked somewhat to fit properly)
The sketched measurements picture is well and truly out of scale, so it's making things look like the trains are going to run headlong into the walls, but this should give you an idea how things are going to be.
Once I've done it on computer to scale and overlaid my XTrkCAD plan again it should be nearer the mark (though the CAD plan was done before I knew any measurements up the loft, so it will need to be tweaked somewhat to fit properly)
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