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Ironing Board(ish) Layout

Post by SillyBilly » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:41 am

Why, oh why, do I have so many ideas of what to do, yet lack the effort and money required to do them!

This crazy idea came around after I saw a couple of photos of a similar thing on the 16mm e-group, needless to say I was eager to start and begun looking at the prices of ironing boards, and my lord are they expensive for what they are!!! The plan crashed, but did not burn, a light bulb developed above my head after a couple of days. Why not ask a friend who has various odds and ends of scrap metel around his yard whether or not he had one, and needless to say this so called 'Ironing Board' appeared in our car earlier this evening!
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I've now cleaned it up in preperation to slap some primer on if the weather is OK tomorrow, I shall then set about cutting a section of Ply to make the base board and work out how I shall make the metal work hold itself together without collapsing!

Eventually it will be a small shunting yard using mamod track, and is to be based on a small quay and will only be suitable for the smallerst of locos. With luck it'll be complete this half of the year and it'll appear at an exhibition in the future!
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Post by ACLR » Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:31 am

sounds great sb look forward to seeing it in the future :D
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Post by laalratty » Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:29 am

Blimey William, i've seen 009 on an ironing board but 16mm?
Look forward to seeing it :D
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Post by steamyjim » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:40 pm

Sounds good Will!!!!

Drawn any plans up for it yet?

Can you post the pics up of the one on the 16mm e group?
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Post by mhlr » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:43 pm

wowee, that will be tiny! I'd love to see the plan!
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Post by SillyBilly » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:18 pm

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That's the baseboard complete with dock!

Very small and simple as I said, but perfect for small shunters to do interesting shunting :) !
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Post by Matt » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:21 pm

Looking good SillyBilly.
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Post by mhlr » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:10 pm

ahhh wicked! Very cool SB!
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Post by steamyjim » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:45 am

Looks great Will.
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Post by steamyjim » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:48 am

I think im going to have to build a ironing board layout :D
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Post by ACLR » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:05 am

looks great :D
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Post by Chris Cairns » Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:34 pm

An interesting project William.

When I first read 'ironing board' I did not think you could get much Mamod track on a standard ironing board, however your photo shows where the 'ish' comes into play.

Be interested to see what you will be able to shunt here in due course.
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Post by steamyjim » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:51 pm

Few questions

What locos are you going to use on it?

What are the dimensions?

Is it going to have a fiddle yard?

What track parts did you use?
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Post by SillyBilly » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:37 pm

What locos are you going to use on it?
My battery powered fleet, occasionally Mamods & other people who fancy a run's small locos
What are the dimensions?
From the largest points, Approx. 1650x450mm
Is it going to have a fiddle yard?
No, it is really a fiddle yard, and it's on a ironing board!
What track parts did you use?
Mamod track from a crate of it I have!
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Post by steamyjim » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:13 pm

Hmmm...

Might have to build me one then.

Could use it just with 1 0 gauge Mamod loco i suppose. And a bit of rolling stock :lol:

If you get it done by next years STIA, the offers still open to exhibit with me ;)
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Small exhibition layouts

Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:11 pm

I have a tiny station on my line in a shed. It gets a lot of goods traffic from the maltings which I plan to build. I was thinking of turning it into a small exhibition layout also
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The railway which people forgot
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