For the few rail guys like me on here.

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...scrapyard.html

First crack at this ......I started a year ago and this is how far I have got to date.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/ind...n-region-1982/

 

The grass needs cutting, and the builders have left a load of pipes in the middle of nowhere

Seriously, looks very good. I was quite a keen model maker as a youth and would have killed for a layout like that

 

LOL
Lazy british 70/early 80s workmen eh!

 

Love dioramas like this, I'm hoping to have a go at one soon too but with static plane kits

 

Thanks...go for it

Started from scratch. Made mistakes along the way. (A bit like tuning subarus )
Most of it I scratch built and MOST of it turned out better than I hoped. Two huts I bought and weathered though.

And I deceided to leave stuff off to give it that end of life feel.
This is what gave me a start point in feel

http://www.kentrail.org.uk/Rochester_Goods_Depot_4.htm

 

Very good, particularly the grass growing between the tracks and the realistic weathering on buildings and rolling stock.

 

Very good mate, a fair few hours gone into that!

 

Yes Gary - Time kind of runs away with you, when you get stuck into it....all of a sudden it is midnight and it was only 7.00 ten minutes ago

 

I really fancy doing something like that myself if I can find some space, love all the detail.

 

Thanks for sharing that with us.Another skill & talent that I don't have.

I don't know about model railways but that is fantastic.It has a uncanny sense of realism & atmosphere.

Keep us updated.

 

I haven´t gotmuch room myself. It is not that big. About 30cm deep and 240cm long. And it could be a bit smaller.
The smaller layouts you can put more detail into in a way.

It is going to be completely disguised. A sofa will butt up to it long wise and it will have a polished wooden box section built over that hinges up. I am hoping it will look like a wooden shelf running behind a sofa when put away.

I have a mate who is a good builder/chippy something I am not! So he is going to do that bit. I am the extra pair of hands.

IF you get started on something Gary ...let me know. I have spare stuff lying around you can have

 

I'll have to have a look at that when I get home Steve as the US server we have at work blocked all of the pics

EddScott has an impressive layout, sent me a link to his blog a couple of years back

 

Very

 

Cracking job

 

Cheers guys

FM - Hopefully Mr Scott will see this and post a link up

 

Really love models and the detail and effort you've invested here has really paid off!

Question: Once it's 'finished' what do you do with it? I always assumed train sets could allow you to set the train off to go around a track of some sort, but with this one it's just a station with dead-ends, so do you just lurch the trains forwards/backwards?

 

Very nice

I have a mountain of late '80s period 00 gauge stuff in the loft, I built some baseboards up there a couple of years ago and loosely laid out some track, but then other things, like cars & bikes, took priority
I do occasionally bring down a couple of pieces of rolling stock and spend an evening or two detailing and weathering them, but that's the extent of my activity at the moment

 

Idealy you could run a layout in a loop. But to make it realistic and to achieve that you need alot of space.

So it is more of a realistic modeling exercise. It all works of course. But is more of a shunting layout

Often people have what is known as a fiddle yard. Which is a bank board off to one end of the layout with enable trains to run on and off the layout.

Thanks for the encouraging comments all

 

Very cool mate, keep itup, oh and get a decent camera to take some good shots of it, or bring it to Germany with you and I can take some pics of it

 

Thanks Steve
Photo nerd F23 Zoom 2.1 Nikon xyX ect ect ect
(By the way those shots were about as good as it gets with me - camera pointing in right dircetion .....but I guess you know that )
Hope you are keeping well mate
Still in the same place?

 

Nikon?? Wash your mouth out Sir

Yes mate still in Sausageland living in my hick village in the middle of fecking nowhere

 

It looks fantastic, some great attention to detail

 

Needs a burnt out XR3 with a dead prostitute hanging out of the boot and jobs a good un

 

For the rail nerd follows of this thread
No burnt out cars or dead bodies ...yet !
A few pics of the first finished loco.
Note each length of rail is to a scale 216mm long (4mm = 1 ft on this layout) And each rail end has fishplates on. These are a total bitch to get into position

 

Love it.

 

love the 'aged' look of the loco. Hard to tell that its a model at all - really good work

 

Probably an old burned out classic in this day and age?

 

Superb weathering Steve, way better than the mess we used to make at the turn of the 80's !

It needs a couple of kids in Parka's with army suplus bag and note pad in hand

 

Right Tony
I need to model a burnt out classic 1994 WRX

I am also on the hunt for donkey jacketed late 70s early 80s figures for the layout.....I think I might have found some.

Sorry about the bad spelling and letters missing chaps. But I am dsylexic I try my best to get it right.

 

ALSO

It is nice to get encouragement as it pushes me on to do more.... so thanks. Also it looks better in real life, as the camera shows up all sorts detail horrors the eye does not see!!