Does anyone want my Glen Ogle layout, I am offering it for free to anyone interested in acquiring it.
It has been documented in great detail on this forum over many months in the past, indeed if one looks below this post, the forum story is told there as "Glen Ogle".
It is available along with its rather elaborate control panel.
It was built as a working diorama in two four foot sections along with it's own folding legs, which was to be operated with two fiddle yards, one at each end.
It has since been extended by 2 two foot square additional base boards attached to each end, cantilevered off each of the original baseboards, turning the end to end configuration into a sort of dog bone continuous circuit. This additional work has been well documented under the same forum title below.
There are no strings attached, you just need a desire to own it and the means to remove it from my garage.
It does not include any of the rolling stock or road vehicles, but does include the fitted population and animals and the control panel, less the Gaugemaster controller.
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It has been provisionally booked for the Mansfield 009 show in July. I was asked at the South York's members meet, by a gentleman who's name I do not have, if I would be prepared to exhibit the layout, and I have agreed. If the gentleman is on this forum and would like to contact me, I would be very grateful, and can in the mean time only apologise to him for my failure to fulfil my promise.
I will also be posting this message on the "Narrow gauge online" forum.
My Email address is:- brian.twigg@virginmedia.com.
Kind regards,
BrianT.
Brian, why dont you contact the 009 society recycling team, maybe they could sell your layout on your behalf and if you dont want any money for it, then maybe they could arrange a donation to your favorite charity. Just a thought. Paul.
Hello Paul, I've been under whelmed by offers to acquire it, but the one offer I have had will see it winging its way to its ancestral home in Scotland, all being well, next week.
It certainly brings you to earth with a bump when you struggle to give away what you thought was a half decent model.
Hey Ho, that's life I suppose.
Perhaps it will be resurrected at some time in the future on this site under its new owner?
Regards,
BrianT.
When layouts come up for offer / sale they can be difficult to shift, especially if finished.
Many of us with layouts may not have space for another one, and the kind of thing that a new owner might want to do to put their stamp on it may involve a great deal of work undoing what the previous owner has done, even if this is to a high standard.
It's not a reflection of your own modelling, put perhaps more a fact of human nature and that we are all different with differing tastes.
Perhaps the best comparison is that it is unlikely that anyone would move into a house and not feel the need to re-decorate, even if it is only changing the colour of the paint on the walls in one room...
Hello Julien, thank you for your reply.
I think you have hit the nail on the head with your observations.
I had anticipated someone showing an interest who did not have a layout and wanted a quick, or new, start into the hobby, and I suspect that will have been the motivation of the new owner.
He comes to collect it tomorrow, I will be sad to see it go, but it is probably for the best, it gives me a chance to start something new.
I have started dabbling in O-16.5 having bought some Chivers rolling stock and a diesel loco at the Rainford meet a few weeks ago, but I have rather bitten off more than I should by laying out a shunting layout using my old EM gauge track and several of my handmade points.
Because I have tried to use the old but entirely serviceable EM track, I have run into difficulties sourcing EM gauge wheels, or more to the point, the lack of them. I don't remember converting to EM gauge being difficult the last time I dabbled in it, but that was over thirty years ago :o
It's such a shame really because the EM hand made points, of various configurations I have used, are of a very fine quality if I do say so myself, but it looks as though I will have to revert to Peco's offerings and put my hand in my pocket and start again. :(
I certainly don't feel like constructing any 00 point work. ::)
Oh, and I have just realised that an 0-16.5 layout, whilst still narrow gauge, does not come under the banner of the 009 society, oh dear, time to ponder???
Kind regards,
BrianT.
Now on its way to its ancestral home with a new owner
Bon voyage, surely?
Quote from: gtmspyder on May 28, 2017, 20:18
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Oh, and I have just realised that an 0-16.5 layout, whilst still narrow gauge, does not come under the banner of the 009 society, oh dear, time to ponder???
Kind regards,
BrianT.
You could always stick with 4 mm scale and model one of the 4' (and 1 1/2") gauge lines (Redlake tramway?) on the 16.5 mm gauge track.... :laugh:
Hello Julien, I'm fiddling with the O-16.5 gauge now, having abandoned the EM gauge trackwork that I had been using to play with because I had it in store.
I couldn't believe the hassle involved in using EM gauge track that I had, so I have taken the advice of some fellow modellers on the other forum, and decided to scrap my EM gauge track and handmade points and re-join the PECO brigade using On30 track and points.
Just as soon as I have decided what the model will look like, I will be off and buy the necessary track and points, just as long as my digits continue to do what I want them to do, luckily the onset of whatever it was that started to disable my hand seems in abeyance, and hopefully the larger scale will make life easier for longer.
I will not be abandoning the 009 forum and the long distance friends I have made on here, well I think of you as friends, but I suppose my blow by blow accounts of whatever the new model takes shape as, will not be a welcome post on here as Heresy.
I intend to remain as a member, just to keep an eye on you all, and I've no doubt some who know my face will recognise me at the odd model railway show.
Kindest regards to you all,
BrianT.
Please stay with us Brian. I have learned so much from your contributions.
Hello Tom, I'm not sure an 0-16.5 layout would quite fit in on the 009 forum would it??
I'm all ready toying with something in my head, I will be posting on the "Narrow gauge online" forum if it ever comes to anything, but I don't mind duplicating posts on here if it's allowed?
Regards,
BrianT.