Layout advice please - BEFORE I HAVE A FART !

[Lord Ferguson]

Being sensible for a moment (makes a change I here you say !) - I have just installed this table top for my new layout.? My original idea was (is) to build modular units (500x500 or 1000x500) and lay them on top of this board.? The other thing I'm thinking is shall I just build straight onto this top.

I liked the idea of being able to have a move round with the modular idea... but It will make fencing and gates and things difficult I suppose... What do you think lads - I would appreciate your help - board is 1100x1600 by the way. - Many thanks

[Tractorman810]

bens fault  :D

it may make him start his now you knever know

[Lord Ferguson]

I think he's waiting for me to bugger up mine first so he can find out how NOT to do it  :D

[Tractorman810]

you can't bugger it up mate,it really is as simple as lego

[Lord Ferguson]

Watch and Learn  - I am very skilled at buggering things up !

[Tractorman810]

na way ,you bugger things up,can't see it after all those boxes ect

[MJB1]

missed this post marky ,good luck with the build , i can't even start mine till summer 

[Lord Ferguson]

Thanks Marcus... you got an outside one then  - Are you doing a modular one as well 

[the other green]

Here are some of our layout pictures Marky. It's all in 1/64 but the basic ideas will work on any scale.

[Lord Ferguson]

Simply... WOW TOG - that looks fantastic mate - thanks for posting them - I see what you mean about the raised roadway now - Make it look so much better - mine's definitely going to get the treatment (if I ever get around to it) - How large is that in total 

[MJB1]

Thanks Marcus... you got an outside one then? - Are you doing a modular one as well?

it,s just a floor from an old shed at the mo ,& the time i wanted to start it was last sept just as the wether changed so it's still just an old shed floor 

[the other green]

These pictures have been posted before, so if you've seen them, sorry.

Marky, you can see above the blue skirting that there's a 3/4 inch piece of plywood, then on top of that there's a 1 1/2 inch piece of styrofoam.

It's an ignorant size, in a "Z" shape but ends up being 96 square feet.

[smallclaas]

Very nice the othergreen I like it alot Lots of time and hard work went into that one, MarkyF best of luck with the build hows it coming along? Building the way you are is a good idea, if you want to display your layout at shows it's a good way to start. See your also into mountain bikes, I'm a road racer myself never much use off the road!

[Lord Ferguson]

Thanks TOG - 96 sq ft of 1/64th - that's some layout - Lucky bugger ?

That Styrofoam is really effective - I'm definitely going to look into that for mine - thanks for posting the pictures once again

[Lord Ferguson]

Very nice the othergreen I like it alot Lots of time and hard work went into that one, MarkyF best of luck with the build hows it coming along? Building the way you are is a good idea, if you want to display your layout at shows it's a good way to start. See your also into mountain bikes, I'm a road racer myself never much use off the road!

Thanks Smallclass - Not really started yet to be honest (1 barn half built (stalled) and one tractor shed that I'm not that happy with) - As for mountain bikes - I enjoy riding but I'm not the fittest person in the world (sadly) - treated myself to a Kona last year just to annoy the Mrs really  - Like you do 

[smallclaas]

WOW theothergreen I think I'll start modelling in 1/64th that is one very, very good layout. I'm doing one in 1/32 but at that scale it takes alot of time.

[the other green]

Once you get started it'll be the little details that will be most fun. ?

[smallclaas]

You'll have to give up the fags MarkyF

[smallclaas]

I agree TOG I'm looking forward to finishing the small things like the foliage and roadways, fencing and the other buildings. Are you in modelling club TOG?

[Lord Ferguson]

Your'e telling me smallclass.... cough cough... hack hack...

TOG - I love that aged Cat D10 - look great (as does all the rest) - it's little details like that, that make a display look real in my opinion. ?Great work ?

[the other green]

No, we're not in any kind of club smallclaas but we swop ideas with other folks at toy shows and have a few model railway friends.

The guy who built the lowbed that the D10 (we took the decals off and pretend it's a D8) had a hairy-fit when he saw the "dirty" Cat on his lowbed Marky.

[JC]

Have you added to that since we last saw it TOG, I can't remember the seeing the section with the white grain silo's before.  \

[smallclaas]

It's great to see a farm layout from the US, was in the US a few year back and visited a few feedlots while I was there. They are some operation. Once again TOG nice work!

[jakescot]

wow TOG fantastic layout scenes there, I agree with smallclaas  ( another top class scenery builder I have to say ! ) the 1/64 scale  is prob easier to start with but the amount of models in that scale over here would perhaps limit the  layouts a bit. perhaps if farmin in canada gets tougher you could diversify into model making????? small scale of course 

thank you for sharing

John

[the other green]

Thanks lads. We haven't added Doc but I've got about 100 pictures of the layout so it's probably one that you haven't seen before.

Smallclaas, it's from Canada, not the US. I'm very touchy about that. 

I'ts the logical scale to be modelling over here for sure John, lots of bits and pieces to be used or modified.

[Deere-est]

Wow this is some post. Excellent question Marky and some fantastic feedback, FTF triumph's again!! I am making mine in individual peices too so that if I get bored I can alter it's layout, pull buildings out and replace them and of course, have no fixed perimiter. Can't wait to get to the detailing of vegitation, scrap, street furniture, surfacing different areas . .. . and on and on!!