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Well this is a first for me!
I've not posted a layout plan before, just pics of all the Scalescenes stuff I've built!
Having ripped all my layout up not long after laying it, I changed the plan and went for the typical twin loop with sidings into the middle and a branch line down one side of the spare bedroom.
With limited room and working away from home a fair bit, these grand layouts are all well and good, but actually finishing, or should I say starting on the scenery is nigh on impossible!
So there is the basic layout!
Now my dad is running N-gauge and I was thinking of doing a very small simple layout, so that when he comes over he can bring his locos and have something to run.
So thats what I'm now doing, hopefully this should be very quick and will give the main layout a bit of scenic treatment in the process.
The last pic shows the left hand corner of the main OO layout, I'm going to put a baseboard tight into that corner 100mm higher than the OO track and build the N-gauge layout on that.
Using the Scalescenes tunnel portals and retaining wall kit in OO these will sit on the OO baseboard and stand about 110mm high and will go all the way round the raised N-gauge baseboard, this will provide a tunnel for the OO layout as well.
Should work quite well.
This layout is in the new Peco OO setrack plan book(Plan 1b) I've just used N-gauge instead, it will all be Peco N-gauge set track.
The straight lines running throught centre diagonally are the position of the scenic break, to the lefthand side of this will be left as non scenic with tracks in the centre of the circle to store the locos although the position of this may change slightly!
The plan book gives some very good illustrations of scenery for this layout which I will almost copy.
The 2 branch lines do run into a goods shed in the book plan, this I will change to the Scalescenes warehouse, as I have loads of card from making all the other kits and I've also built the OO warehouse so this should be a quite a challenge as its so small!
This is what the complete warehouse looks like when it's just been printed out, I prefer to do it this way so that there is minimal colour variation than if I'd printed out at different times.
Going on Holiday now in the trailer-tent, funny everybody is saying it's going to rain you will be stuck inside, ok maybe I will but the warehouse kit is coming with me so who cares!
Yep a 5pence piece just for size comparison.
As I'm using DCC, I will run Steam on OO and Diesel on N, now if I connect both layouts upto the same power-bus I should be able to control both layouts with the one controller as the loco addresses will be different.
Ian
I've not posted a layout plan before, just pics of all the Scalescenes stuff I've built!
Having ripped all my layout up not long after laying it, I changed the plan and went for the typical twin loop with sidings into the middle and a branch line down one side of the spare bedroom.
With limited room and working away from home a fair bit, these grand layouts are all well and good, but actually finishing, or should I say starting on the scenery is nigh on impossible!



So there is the basic layout!
Now my dad is running N-gauge and I was thinking of doing a very small simple layout, so that when he comes over he can bring his locos and have something to run.
So thats what I'm now doing, hopefully this should be very quick and will give the main layout a bit of scenic treatment in the process.
The last pic shows the left hand corner of the main OO layout, I'm going to put a baseboard tight into that corner 100mm higher than the OO track and build the N-gauge layout on that.
Using the Scalescenes tunnel portals and retaining wall kit in OO these will sit on the OO baseboard and stand about 110mm high and will go all the way round the raised N-gauge baseboard, this will provide a tunnel for the OO layout as well.
Should work quite well.
This layout is in the new Peco OO setrack plan book(Plan 1b) I've just used N-gauge instead, it will all be Peco N-gauge set track.

The straight lines running throught centre diagonally are the position of the scenic break, to the lefthand side of this will be left as non scenic with tracks in the centre of the circle to store the locos although the position of this may change slightly!
The plan book gives some very good illustrations of scenery for this layout which I will almost copy.
The 2 branch lines do run into a goods shed in the book plan, this I will change to the Scalescenes warehouse, as I have loads of card from making all the other kits and I've also built the OO warehouse so this should be a quite a challenge as its so small!
This is what the complete warehouse looks like when it's just been printed out, I prefer to do it this way so that there is minimal colour variation than if I'd printed out at different times.
Going on Holiday now in the trailer-tent, funny everybody is saying it's going to rain you will be stuck inside, ok maybe I will but the warehouse kit is coming with me so who cares!


Yep a 5pence piece just for size comparison.
As I'm using DCC, I will run Steam on OO and Diesel on N, now if I connect both layouts upto the same power-bus I should be able to control both layouts with the one controller as the loco addresses will be different.
Ian