QUOTE (TimP @ 12 Feb 2008, 23:57)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>a> Anyone is always welcome to hijack "my" threads...it's a bit like a chat in the pub, you don't expect to bring the meeting to order and stay on topic do you!
b> One window here is to allow us to meet relevant building regs over insulation, as we are having lots of windows elsewhere, where non-cave dwelling members of the family may want to look out on the view of the Cromarty Firth!
c> Really settled on OO. I'd love to EM or P4, but think that I might save that for a future generation. Decision based on cost, availability of nice RTR stuff, and wanting enough interesting layout to give varied operation.... since you have been kind enough to express interest here is my very very rough current thinking...
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the fiddle yard will be replaced with coach sidings, the terminus is just a stub, that needs designing. It needs an engine shed somewhere. The vacant corner of the room is for desk, clean work area.
d> Storage space - I have already bought (off good old ebay) five lovely cupboards that fit under the layout. So far I have just built two test baseboards in another part of the house to try out various ideas for construction, e.g. tortoise motor fittings, baseboard joining etc. (and not of course to give me somewhere to 'play trains' whilst the extension is being built, no, no, no!). Next experiment is to try some tillig track with tortoise point motors.
e>I know it's hackneyed, but I intend to model WR transition, which is a bit of a way from 'home' but as a child I regularly stood on paddington station waiting for the relatives to arrive from Bristol, on trains hauled by Castles etc. and like many I was a spotter and often stood on Twyford station as Westerns, Hymeks and Warships went by....why has nothing since been as beautiful as those diesels?
f>As to lighting, having read the comments on here, I think maybe I will go fluorescent just to get a really high light level when I want it, perhaps with two or three separate switches, that will make up light to work by and then some gentler lighting for operating.
g>For electrics, I think I will have low level sockets, except in the area I want the desk, clean work area where I will have them above bench height.
h>For heating, currently planning on installing skirting board radiator system.
Thanks again for everyone's brain power
TimP
Hi Tim,
Apologies for going off the 'thread' again but have you given any thought to under-floor heating. I can highly recommend it. Nice warm feet in the winter!!!
Like the layout by the way and wholeheartedly commend your choice of era/region. I also have many fond memories of those GWR/BR transition days.
Regards,
Expat
Regards,