Post pictures and information about your own personal model railway layout that is under construction. Keep members up-to-date with what you are doing and discuss problems that you are having.
Phred wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:09 am
Having run out of room on the main board and wanting to try some OO9 modelling (inspired by some of Mountain's posts) I started a 1200mm X 600mm board which will sit alongside the main layout and run off the same controllers. I want to try some actual scenery on this section. Years later I'm still working on it. It is called Little Addon for obvious reasons.
This is the baseboard with N gauge track (in place of proper narrow gauge) fixed and ballasted.
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Everything has to be demountable so that it can be stored away when not in use. To that end the processing plant slots into the grey 'concrete block' base and just lifts out.
Here is a closer look at the plant.
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I don't know what the plant processes or what the various things on the roof do but it looks like something that would employ a narrow gauge railway. I emailed a photo of it to a friend of mine who commented that he liked the dust extraction unit. I didn't know it had a dust extraction unit!
Anyway, I'll post more when I get around to building more. The grandkids want a model farm that they can play with.
Aah Mountain! Reviving this thread has me feeling guilty. Little Addon (the narrow gauge bit at the end of the thread) has been sitting behind the study door for yonks. I really should do a bit more on it but now Christmas is coming and I've bought a little nano aquarium (my present to myself) to sit on the desk, so that will distract me for a while. It's a quandary.
In the past I was going to build a H0e line next to my 00 when I was into 00, and I had a collection of locos, coaches and waggons (RTR in 009 was not available in those days), but I had bought a Smallbrook 7mm narrow gauge "Clio" loco body kit just because I loved the look of it. It sat unmade for almost two years before I handed in my notice where I worked as I hit a major burnout and needed to have a long break.
Then with no income 00 prices doubled... And I sat on my bedroom floor wondering what to do. I looked up, and there in front of my eye was the kit in its little bag.
I started building the kit as I knew I already had a donor loco in my spares box. As I was building it tears came down my face. It became so personal!
I then wanted to make waggons. Spares box again revealed Triang cast metal wagon chassis. I remembered seeing offcuts of fine wire mesh in the back lane. These happened to be the ideal size to make a mesh body for two waggons, and things went from there!
From then on I was looking round the house, round shops... Wherever I could for things to scratchbuild with.
I have had more satisfaction and fun then I had had for years! The last time I felt like that was when I was six and seven when I first started to have my electric trains! (Had push-along trains with red plastic track before that from a toddler onwards... So I have not been without trains!)
