new layout

[A4mallard]

[Noel]

Ah the Circle line

[A4mallard]

[Sulzer201]

Inspired idea for a simple circle line layout. Shows what can be achieved with imagination and skill.

[Irishrailwayman]

The ultimate tail-chaser! Also referred to as a pizza box layout. Good opportunity to vary the backscene at each quartile. Some examples I have seen utilise curved points to give two linked running lines/sidings.

[A4mallard]

tinfoil and tommy Walsh

[David Holman]

So, not only are you building a half sized Maeve [in time for Christmas], but the smokebox door is going to have a circular layout inside it! Clearly solves the problem of how to fit the Maeve model in the garden - presume it will be mounted vertically, so when the smokebox door is swung open, the layout is ready to operate? Still track and 'Magnadhesian' to stop the trains falling off when in store too?

[Broithe]

So, not only are you building a half sized Maeve [in time for Christmas], but the smokebox door is going to have a circular layout inside it! Clearly solves the problem of how to fit the Maeve model in the garden - presume it will be mounted vertically, so when the smokebox door is swung open, the layout is ready to operate? Still track and 'Magnadhesian' to stop the trains falling off when in store too?

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7694255.stm

[A4mallard]

[video=youtube;4-_ymG8rtbg]

[RobertRoche]

I was considering making a rotating layout, I even bought the bearings for it. Is this driven by a motor or by the weight of the train on one side?

[A4mallard]

By the locomotive

[GSR 800]

By the locomotive

 

Methinks you may have gotten inspiration to build this while constructing the MF...

[A4mallard]

All joking aside, if I could get some decent drawings of Maeve, I'd give it bash.

[GSR 800]

All joking aside, if I could get some decent drawings of Maeve, I'd give it bash.

 

Have you seen these Bren?

From resources..

[David Holman]

Is that a gauntlet being thrown I see? At half scale, will be 'only' around 10 metres long, with 1 metre diameter drivers, sitting on 2'7.5" track...

Local timber merchants may already be considering exotic foreign holidays!

[Broithe]

Is that a gauntlet being thrown I see? At half scale, will be 'only' around 10 metres long, with 1 metre diameter drivers, sitting on 2'7.5" track...

Local timber merchants may already be considering exotic foreign holidays!

 

I remember hearing of a chap that made a big wooden thing like that once, but he used gopher wood.

 

Never been sure what happened to it..

[GSR 800]

Is that a gauntlet being thrown I see? At half scale, will be 'only' around 10 metres long, with 1 metre diameter drivers, sitting on 2'7.5" track...

Local timber merchants may already be considering exotic foreign holidays!

 

Aye, the challenge has been put forth....should it be accepted, now that is the real question...

[A4mallard]

yes i have seen those pic's when you enlarge them to 1/12 it's hard to retain the detail, i have a little work left on mf and Hueston and few bits on the santa fe i also have to make two tie fighter's and one large asteroid and five small one's I ALSO HAVE TO LOSE 3 STONE SO A BUSY FEW MONTHS AHEAD

Edited December 13, 2016 by A4mallard

[A4mallard]

Hi this will be my last post on this site. I would just like to thanks everybody for their nice comments over the years.

regards bren

Edited January 17, 2017 by A4mallard

[richrua]

how come?

[jhb171achill]

A4mallard, whatever way things are going for you, I wish you all the very best in the future.

[Sulzer201]

A4mallard, whatever way things are going for you, I wish you all the very best in the future.

 

And I would second that, a great modeller who is a keen and active member of this community.

[Mike258747]

A4mallard, whatever way things are going for you, I wish you all the very best in the future.

 

Your modelling skills are second to none. Your 'Can you guess what it is yet?' was always a challenge!!