Hello all
After lurking for a few weeks since joining, I have made enough progress with my new 009 layout to film a preview. I am adding scenery to one section at a time as things move along, and currently waiting for a large box of trees to arrive, some of which will be planted into the section filmed. Anyway, this is all you are allowed to see just yet!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6eCe6zrfGz0
Cheers
MB
A very nice looking layout indeed Mike and I (and I'm sure others) look forward very much to seeing progress reports as you develop things even further.
A splendid range of well running stock that if I am not mistaken is currently all ready to run, including a superb Fourdees 0-6-0T? If so, it's all certainly a very good advert for how far 009 has come in recent years.
Well done!
Mick
Yes Mick, all ready to run. I have spent many years kit building and bashing, and some scratch building in all sorts of scales from N to 15mm, the idea of this is that is to be nice and relaxing and not to strain the eyes and temper too much, working well so far
Looks absolutely lovely, Mike. It shows what can be done by judicious selection of proprietry models. I am jealous!
Kindest,
Andrew
A couple of pictures as things progress
This one didn't quite make any of Ivo Peters albums. An exchange of greetings between stationmaster and driver as the Fourdees Peckett takes the late afternoon service through the passing station
Over at the other side of the layout ideas are being tried for the terminus
I take it that you were building structures before commencing with the layout?
Jeff S.
The buildings are all "off the shelf" Jeff, most are from an abandoned 00 gauge layout
A bit more done over the weekend, the station yard laid in its final position and ballasted, buildings set in place and backscene fixed.
It's coming along nicely.
Jeff S.
A little activity at the coaling stage. The loco shed and corrugated goods shed are both Bachmann Scenecraft buildings, cut down in size. In the background you can just make out the ruined castle.
Another Fourdees Peckett has joined the loco roster
Perhaps any of our Welsh experts can help out here, I ran "end of the line" through an English to Welsh translator and it came up with "diwedd y llinell". It struck me that this would make a mighty fine name for my terminus station. Would this be the correct spelling and wording taking into account any variables in the language?
Updated video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi_LdZcGq1k
Very very nice.
Thanks Tom, as readers will see, we have a name now.
That is a lovely picture.
A little more progress on the layout, the platform lamps are now installed and the signal at the end of the platform has been recycled from the old 00 layout. A scenecraft water crane completes the additions this week. Most of the trees I have in stock are now planted, and over on the as yet unseen far side of the layout the scenery is coming together, I await the results of the "realistic water" which was brought into play this afternoon.
The quayside walls have been added, and an addition to the loco fleet