Ironing Board(ish) Layout
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Ironing Board(ish) Layout
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!
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!
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!
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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My battery powered fleet, occasionally Mamods & other people who fancy a run's small locosWhat locos are you going to use on it?
From the largest points, Approx. 1650x450mmWhat are the dimensions?
No, it is really a fiddle yard, and it's on a ironing board!Is it going to have a fiddle yard?
Mamod track from a crate of it I have!What track parts did you use?
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Small exhibition layouts
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
The railway which people forgot
(to build)
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