As this is my first post, I'll introduce myself first :) I'm Jack, and modelled in 009 for a at least 3 years now, but only joined the 009 society at Wigan this year! I am a 'junior' modeller, but hopefully the stuff I produce will be ok ;)
Anyway, the layout, some people may have seen it else where, or even at a show. Its not huge, and contains lots of design faults, but thats what happens when a group of teenagers are allowed to deisgn and build a layout ;)
It is based on Penny Woods, on the fictious West Yorkshire light railway. Penny woods is the busiest places on the railway, containing a passing loop and many lines to many quarries the railway serves, as well as the SCRPS short line.
The layout is still not finished, however this photos are about 6 months old but not much work has happened since, due to GCSE exams for myself, and collage for the others.
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An overview of the layout showing the various levels to the layout, and also the steep hill, we can get some things up it just, and it does attract people at exhibitions when we try :) The white block is actually proctecting the Skaledale War Memorial.
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An 'arty' shot accross the platform, showing the eventually working lamps, alot of this still need bits of toning down.
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Stepping stones in front of the water tunnel. I suggested a canoeist coming out of it, but it was stopped before it could go any futher ;)
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The engine shed on the top level, currently just 'put on' until scenery is finsihed.
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The boardwalk from what will eventually be the Vistors centre/car park (the flat brown area) down to the platform, this area has since been devleoped with foilage to cover unpainted areas and weathered down a little.
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Penny Falls, where the legend/myth of the Fairy (called Penny) orginated, the idea of the name Penny.
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The rockfaces (and some stock painted/weahtered by myself), painting rock races was a first for all of us, and we hope it has gone well!
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The bridge, our favourite feature, a scale 32ft from the valley bottom I think it works out at, totally unnecessary, but we like it :)
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An early view...
I'll try and get some more pics eventually, but the layout has been packed away since we've started a new mammoth project in 00 (I will get some narrow gauge on it ;) ), but I may rescue it so it can live in my basement. Its currently based at our Model Railway Clubs rooms.
That looks like a rather interesting layout, both to operate and to watch! Itd be nice to see some photos with some trains on too, to get a sense of the sort of traffic to be seen.
Is there any chance of a trackplan so we can see where the various tracks go to once they've left the scenic area?
It certainly is a visually impressive layout, thanks for sharing it!
Welcome to the forum too!
Cheers
J
The layout looks very good indeed.
The white blob puzzled me at first - clearly Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been in town. :D
I particularly like the rocks. How did you do them? Castings?
The rocks are indeed cast, can't remeber what make, but I think they were various. I'll try and get some more pics with on it, although its generally what we end up with, we have a electic selection of stock!
Excellent work. Rolling stock painting very nice and the rock colouring is perfect. Keep it up and don't get infected with that Stand*** Gauge non sense.
Cheers
John Wooden
Nice to see some wider angle photos, Jack, the only ones I recall seeing before on NGRM didn't show the whole layout.
It certainly looks fun to operate, especially the hill!
I can see some woodland scenics castings in amongst all those rocks, those are the only ones I can recognise, though.
P.S. Glad to see you joined the Society after all the attempts over the years to get you to do so :D
Yep, now I member, I blaim you ;) ;D
We were proud of the layout (although it isn't finsihed) however they are some huge deisgn flaws, but when it was designed, we were still 'young' (about 3 1/2 years ago now!).