The GnATTERbox

I like the bogie wagon. Not thought of doing that. Good idea. Perhaps Steve B will come up with something! Chopping a couple of his wagons and mounting onto a new plasticard base could be a possibility.
What radii does this go round?

In my experience with my son when 'playing' with trains, 'scale' does not seem to matter and quite happy to mix various toys of different sizes to suit the play mode at the time. As time goes on, i.e. when he has grown up (now 12) a better sense of scale starts to form. The important thing is that t...

A great start
I like the size of the buildings and the sloping bank. It does lend itself to being viewed from all sides.
Looking forward to seeing this progress.

Very nice work. Full of details and everything blends in well. Like the grass growing around the track and timber supports.
Thanks for sharing with us.

A great set of critters!!
The weathering looks spot on!

Interesting track plan, look forward to seeing how this develops.

I thought that you might want to see the following taken at Expong 2005 and from what I can remember is 0n14 and built by someone in France. Sorry can't remember anymore details. I have a few more photos and can post if useful. http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss213/mudmagnet202/misc%20railway/fre...

Thanks for posting the overall view. Looks nicely balanced. I wouldn't be too concerned that the layout looks smaller. The placement of the buildings draws your eyes into the scene. Works for me!

Everything has blended in very well. The 'egg-box' blocks look great. Watching with great interest and looking forward to seeing an overall view and further progress.

Looks good Trevor.
The corrugated roof looks perfect - nicely damaged, but functional.

Quite tempted to try something like this in 1:12 scale

I look forward to seeing that one Steve

Great photos!

Alex, great work

Gives me some thoughts about building something small over the Christmas hols while the family are watching the TV!

I've just followed this thread from the thread on the chequer plate and hve not seen this thread before found it very inspirational. I particular like the rust method and the colour and weathering on the loco.

Reminds me of the technique used by Lane Stewart, who presented several articles in Narrow Guage and Shortline Gazzette up to a year or so ago. However, he used a series of 3 or 4 angle-poise lamps with different rated bulbs.
Your method is much simplier and cheaper.

I will post more on this if anyone is interested later in the week. John, you have sparked my interest with the boards alone - can't wait to see how this progresses :D Using the 'L' girder and elevated track will make for some great scenic development. The board size should make it relatively strai...

Thanks John. We don't get to many crocs in the UK, but we do have a few wild bigs cats but thats another story, such as the 'Exmoor Beast'.

John,
This is the first time that I have seen this model and have enjoyed looking through the thread from the beginning. Great atmosphere.
Where did the croc come from?

What a fantastic layout! What more can be said! Great atmosphere and wonderfull modelling. Extremely impressive.
Thanks for sharing the photos with us.

Wow! Awesome! I particularily like the wood blocks. A stunning piece of work, very impressive.

Looks impressive - good to see the progress. Look forward to seeing more. Can just imagine the odd oil leak and associated signs of use (and abuse).

Nice looking critter and wagon. The display base is great - its a good way to display a model and photograph.

I had added some photos (as below), with some of the stock staged to show how the layout was presented at the exhibition yesterday. http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss213/mudmagnet202/layout015.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss213/mudmagnet202/layout016.jpg http://i577.photobucket.com/albu...

Had a good day at the shopw today, but battery ran out in my camera so couldn't take any photos. I will take some tomorrow (Sunday) had get posted. My son had great fun 'playing' trains for most of the day, putting all of the wagons on at one time occasionally - not leaving much room for anything el...

No further updates on the layout unfortunately, but on show tomorrow and will post some photos on sunday. If you are in Barnstaple tomorrow, call in and introduce yourself.

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