roxyguy Posted January 4, 2015 Posted January 4, 2015 Hi All, Im a long time on looker of this forum and have enjoyed viewing other peoples creations. I have recently bought a house and have had the opportunity to put together a small permanent layout. Its a basic 7 x4 roundie-roundie with a small fiddle yard. Needs more work, back scenes and detailing. The state of the layout matches my skill level (basic). Rolling stock consists of all the usual suspects. Quote
burnthebox Posted January 4, 2015 Posted January 4, 2015 (edited) Hi roxyguy & welcome to the site, I think your the 4th new member to come on board today, so welcome, lots of stuff on here & lots of very helpful advice & suggestions, as always I tell new people coming on board the dust & abuse is free, I like that layout, something I do not have yet it's in the planning, still. !!! Of course you know what that means, keep us informed with lots of pics & videos, & a Happy New Year, Edited January 5, 2015 by burnthebox Quote
DiveController Posted January 5, 2015 Posted January 5, 2015 Hi Roxyguy, Are you happy with the roundie-roundie design and just want to finish to off, or ideally you'd like something different in time even if confined by the spare bedroom or wherever the layout is now. if you can't go out, you could go up. What you have looks good and most of the pieces could be reused in modified layout. A multilevel layout might be possible for you, even in this space and would add some additional room, variety and more fun. Set some longer term goals maybe? Are you on DCC? Quote
roxyguy Posted January 5, 2015 Author Posted January 5, 2015 Hi again, thanks for your comments. As a child of the eighties I gre up looking at hornby layouts and track plans thinking that they were the bees knees, this probably effected my decision to build a roundie roundie. I can operate 4 locos at once, analogue control. I've quickly realised the limitations of a layout like this, I probably would have been better of with two lanes of track, rather than 4, and decent fiddle yard with better operational potential. That said, Im enjoying running stuff that's been in boxes for years. For now I'll probably finish the layout off and enjoy for a few years before rethinking the whole thing. Here are some more pics. Looking forward to contributing to the forum. Quote
BosKonay Posted January 5, 2015 Posted January 5, 2015 Lovely feel to the layout and welcome to the site! Quote
Noel Posted January 5, 2015 Posted January 5, 2015 Your absolutely right. It looks great, has great scenery and a lovely balance of buildings and scenes. Enjoy operating it. Quote
roxyguy Posted January 5, 2015 Author Posted January 5, 2015 Thanks for your encouraging comments:) Quote
josefstadt Posted January 5, 2015 Posted January 5, 2015 Welcome to the site roxyguy. It's a great looking layout, as others have said, and so long as you enjoy operating it that is the most important thing. Quote
burnthebox Posted January 5, 2015 Posted January 5, 2015 roxyguy, as everyone has said, enjoy the layout, after all, it's your laYout, & as I have already said, I don't have one yet, you are so far ahead of a number of us, is your layout DCC ? & if not will you be going down tha route, Quote
DiveController Posted January 6, 2015 Posted January 6, 2015 Some lovely closeups there. Keep 'em rolling:trains: Is that a 4F in the background? what's the black CIE Guiness bus? Quote
roxyguy Posted January 6, 2015 Author Posted January 6, 2015 Hi Guys, thanks gain for your comments. The layout is analogue. I have no plans yet to switch to DCC, but maybe in the future sometime. The black steam loco is a hornby dean goods repainted. I have a green woolwich, buts its a poor runner. Does anyone have any ideas on improving its performance? The black guinness bus a guinness collectable and I think is still widely available. Quote
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