Remember that young children may want to view the layout and this should be taken into account if this possibility exists. The stool idea of CeeDeeI is actually a good idea. How many people actually control their layouts standing up? Nearly everybody!
I suspect the reason for most modellers wanting to stand and have an overview is that they can see what is going on and take emergency action quickly.
It is much harder to see two locos worth £100 each careering towards each other from eye level.
And then there is the derailing issue mentioned elsewhere. It happens even on exhibition circuits. If its not spotted quickly then serious damage can occur.
If you are only running one train at a time though and its simply tail chasing around the circuit then you can relax a bit and sit down and just look.
Thats probably the only time that I sit down.
Its probably down to how confident you feel about incidents taking place or lack off.
Happy modelling
Gary
I suspect the reason for most modellers wanting to stand and have an overview is that they can see what is going on and take emergency action quickly.
It is much harder to see two locos worth £100 each careering towards each other from eye level.
And then there is the derailing issue mentioned elsewhere. It happens even on exhibition circuits. If its not spotted quickly then serious damage can occur.
If you are only running one train at a time though and its simply tail chasing around the circuit then you can relax a bit and sit down and just look.
Thats probably the only time that I sit down.
Its probably down to how confident you feel about incidents taking place or lack off.
Happy modelling
Gary
