QUOTE (pedromorgan @ 18 Mar 2009, 06:45)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>thankyou for starting this thread. we havent had a decent poll in ages.
I like a layout to look nice. that is far more important to me that weather the stock is correct to the time, period or even country.
Grafiti would be a huge no-no.
I like elegant features. weather its a sweeping curve, a nice, well proportioned bridge or a dramatic cutting.
I find nice trackwork a real draw,
I hate layouts where you can go along and say "oah there is the hornby signalbox and the peco station fronting and the faller bridge....."
There has got to be movement. i dont care if its the same train going round several times but its important that there is something going round.
I have said this many times before but i like to see the "showmans gene". i like to see people who are enjoying themselves and are proud to show off their layouts. they are enjoying entertaining the public.
that to mee is 1000% more important than weather x train ran at y in the year z.
Peter
Yes, I would agree with most of the above. It has to look natural rather than some out of the box buildings crammed in the tiny spaces left where more track couldn't be crammed in. To look real it has to look like the train is running through real countryside.
The use of the same mass produced buildings on layouts has led to a sameyness about many layouts. I went on a layout tour a couple of years back and it really hit home how samey all these layouts looked. When I returned home I removed all of my Hornby buildings. Unfortunately I do have an entire city street of Faller and Vollmer buildings but as I need a city's worth it is to much to scratch build in the time I have available.
Track isn't a big issue for me, mainly because my priority is modelling HO, OO comes second. I also don't tend to look at the track that much.
I do try to run appropriate locos for the era in general but I'm not going to refuse to run anything because it's doesn't fit. As said above having a train running is far more important than most other factors.