Good Day All I just recently jumped into the n scale train madness, I cheated and went with a Noch Colorado layout and built a table slash case for it as I have two cat's that would love to get in there. I have changed the ground cover a bit and put some tree's in so far but that's about it. I plan on keeping only steam locomotives, I just love the old iron. Here are some pic's. Take Care
Looks great! Welcome to TrainBoard. I see we found another N Scale Steamer! Let me also invite you to the N Scale Steamers TrainBoard Group. Do you plan on adding any structures to the layout?
Thank's Guy's for all the kind word's Yes I do plan on putting in a small village of sort's with depot etc. Take Care
Welcome Tatsu ... WOW, like what you've done w/that display ... not my thing but I sure like it ... maybe some day .. baffled:
Welcome! Welcome, Tatsu. The case work is very impressive indeed! With that style layout, I would choose the structure pieces carefully, as it won't accommodate any very large ones. I think your idea of a small village might be the way to go - enough variety to be interesting, without looking out of place in the small space. I would suggest a small combination passenger/freight station, as were common on branch lines during the steam period. Best regards, Don:tb-biggrin:
Welcome! I love the case it looks like it will protect against toddlers as well as well as cats. :tb-biggrin:
Welcome to the nuthouse. When looking for the buildings for your layout they should scale with your layout. When looking for buildings for my one by two foot traction layout, I found my solution in the Hornby Lyddle End series. They had a station and engine house that fit and beautifully. Both of them are about four inches long. The buildings do not dominate the layout even though there are three buildings in two square feet. The third is parts of a Model Power engine house covering the project box that houses all the controls for the layout. A one amp wall wart plugs into it and powers the layout.
When you're cramped for space on a small layout you do have one luxury here - you can pick up whatever building assortment works for now but you're not 'stuck' with it. It's hard to relocate your track on that concept, but the big gray area in the middle is wide open. The only real disadvantage you've got is that the glass will fight you on both working on the layout and for photos. Is it removable? Or does the entire layout come out somehow? I started with a 3x6 door-size and kit plastic buildings back in 1972, liked Santa Fe in the Arizona highlands. After the layout got 'done' I started to discover pictures of things I really liked out there and expirimented with scratchbuilding structures - specific ones - and replacing the original plastic kit structures one by one. The 'original' attempt was replacing the Heljan passenger station that has that two-story log look with a real scratchbuilt model of the Flagstaff station. Then it was Winslow. Then the tower at Winslow. Then the shop building.... and meanwhile I got a lot more focused on a specific time and location. Pretty soon, a few years down the road the problem was the buildings were right and the layout wasn't but by this time I knew exactly what I wanted to do and on to the next layout, but the buildings moved up with it. But I'm a big fan of small layouts, you can afford to finish them and do detail to a level that most large layouts never achieve. So just don't think of your initial attempt on your building search to be 'final'. It's not. Unlike the guys that have to finish a whole basement and can't devote the time to individual structures, you've got a drop-dead gorgeous living room cabinet layout, and you can really, really take it to the top notch over time with detail and concept. Enjoy. Share!
This has been an issue for me. I built a fold up cover to keep toddlers and cats out on one of my layouts and I can run trains just fine, but it really is a pain to work on the layout.:tb-biggrin:
Oh, no! Not another pocket N Scaler. LOL Looks good and it will do the trick for now. Welcome aboard.
I too was looking to run the Noch Colarado bit decided I needed something bigger so I am still looking... It seems to be the only one that Noch Designed to run the Unitrack (Which is what I have)
Good Day Thank's again for all the kind word's and very helpfull idea's, as to the small town I have been looking at small branch line structure's and I'm just trying to get a picture in my head of how it will look, that is how I built the display, I get a picture of what I want it to look like in my head and build it, at least pretty close to what I have pictured anyway. The plexiglass is removeable and the back also open's up, when I work on it I just lift the top piece of plexiglass off. Take Care
