A minimum space tram layout. The board is 3ft x 1ft using Tomytec n gauge tram rail and Petite Properties structures.
Hello Steve,
That looks very nice. I am building one of the Petite Properties houses at the moment - I hope I can make as good a job of it as you.
Julian
Hi Julian
They really are a good base - look through my blog- search Petite Properties
https://dorsetrailwaymodelling.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the link, Steve.
I used Metcalf brick paper for mine, but the card is really too stiff to get a crisp finish around window and door openings. It is not bad, but could be betterr, so your recommendations for other brick papers are welcome.
Julian
Very nice, Steve!
A few years ago I built a circular tram layout on a 20" diameter mdf base although it's 12mm gauge rather than 9mm so I scratchbuilt the track.
Buildings on it are continental in appearance and the trams will also be single deckers as I prefer them.
In retrospect it probably would have been better to have opted for 9mm gauge as there's a wider choice of mechanisms (both those I currently have are by Halling and are adjustable between 9 and 16.5mm anyway).
The little yellow Lisbon tram I have is one of the diecast souvenir items; it was the realisation that a Halling Variodrive could be fitted to it that really prompted the gauge choice and indeed the whole layout.
Perhaps I should get on and do some more to it...thanks for (hopefully) nudging me into doing so!
Simon.
Thanks for the kind comments.
Two further Petite Properties low relief kits arrived yesterday so the terrace can be finished.
I have another Atlas tram stripped ready for motorisation with a KATO bogie mech.
Best wishes
Steve
The layout has a name at long last-Cody Street. There are similar named streets in the UK.