Yes thats right - I am about to build my first layout for 35 years.
Still in the early planning stages, drawing on rolls of wallpaper and playing about with mock ups of buildings to try to decide what size baseboard I will need.
The layout will need to fit under my bed for storage so I am looking at something about 15" by 8ft (sorry I don't do metric) which will hinge back on itself to produce something 2ft 6" x 4ft when folded up.
The only real decision so far is that it will be 009 and called "Botley and Tumbling Bay" in homage to 009 layouts built by both myself and my father all those years ago.
I remember using Sundeala insulation board for my previous layouts, but don't know if this is still made. Maybe someone out there knows.
Will post details of how I get on, with photos if anyone is interested...
Just an update
- baseboards built - sundela still available but mega expensive so used some plywood I found in my garage
- track all laid and all wiring in place - I forgot how much I enjoyed doing the wiring (no honestly)
- loco and rolling stock kits purchased and slowly being built - I would welcome any thoughts about couplings
- soon to start on basic scenery
Sounds fascinating, any photos yet?
Mick
If I can work out how to do it !!
Quote from: gazzerk on May 11, 2010, 18:04
If I can work out how to do it !!
You need to host your images on a separate site and then link to them using some very basic HTML code. There are many sites you can use such as Flickr.com (my preferred one), fotopic.net etc. etc.
I wrote a tutorial on how to use Flickr for doing this over on NGRM:
http://ngrm-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=1133.0 i think you need to register to be able to read that thread, but it's worth it ;)
Others have subsequently added instructions for using the other sites.
Hope that solves your problem.
Agree with Mick - sounds really interesting. Photos would be good. Send me a message if you get stuck, I'll gladly help out.
Whereabouts is the layout set?
On this forum (the one we're on now, not the ngrm-online one that Tom refers to above) you can also add up to 4 photos per posting by clicking the "additional options" tag that is in blue to the left of and below the text box when you are preparing a new topic posting, or preparing a reply.
This opens a new smaller box labelled "attach"
Click on the "Browse" box to the right of it, and this will open an Explorer window where you can find and select your photo from your own hard drive. When you find the file you want, click on it and then select "open". The address of your selected file will now appear in the "attach" box. If you want to add additional photos, then select the blue "(more attachments)" option and do the same thing again.
Constraints of this method over using a hosting site as explained by Tom earlier:
1. Maximum size of 300K per attachment - shouldn't be a problem as you shouldn't attach large images to forum postings using any method anyway.
2. Maximum number of attachments per posting: 4. Unlimited as far as I know using the hosting site method. However there's nothing to stop you making several postings if you want to post a set of more than 4 photos!
3. When you make attachments, you can't see the photo that you have attached until after you have made the posting, the "preview" tag will only show the text of your posting, not the attachments, so you do need to know what the photo that you have selected looks like before you actually insert it!
To prove this works, I've just found a .jpg of my current Volume 5 CD cover which I've attached using this method - makes for a useful bit of free publicity anyway - hurry along, still sufficient for everyone but stocks won't last forever!!
Mick
Have tried to upload photos but they are all much too large to be accepted and I don't know how to reduce the file size - have to ask the kids !!!