Layout design
Colorado Front Range March 2017 Update
We are finishing up the Sugar Mill tracks and an over view of some of the operation that will be done at the mill. Some new tool review. We will start scenery in April for this area. Hope you enjoy this months update.
Mike
12 episode TOMA build | 3'X5' | Old Bay District
Ok so for the past few years I have made static models for myself. My RR per say has always sat in storage as I do not have the room at home to build a large layout.
So I recently noticed this TOMA movement and realized it would be much like my planned 3X5 movement. The 3X5 is like more cowbell in the band. An extra foot each way give more room for my little land of plenty.
Please enjoy and possibly participate in this thread.
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New update in my personal blog
Just added a new page to my personal blog, if anyone is interested,
https://johnnybweb.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/design-now-build-later/
Colorado Front Range---- Longmont Sugar Mill
Got a chance to get some mockups done for the Great Western Sugar mill in Longmont done here is how the scene is working out. I hope to have a video on it later this month.
Mike
Another structure, and a new FB page for my layout
I've created a new FB page to make discussion and sharing of my modeling easier, and create a kind of permanent repository for lots of photos. I updated my own blog with some of the reasons for creating the page:
http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2017/03/new-facebook-page.html
The new FB page is here:
Woodland scenics modules
Being that my layout will use the TOMA format, I am left wondering, if anyone has tried using the WS modules to create their layout, and what was you experience taking this route? Would you use them again. Other than the perk of all the scenery Stuff, I am reminded of what Joe said about foam in a few other posts.
Out of storage, so what now?
In my first blog post, I wrote about how I am only now revisiting the hobby after many years. I am having a lot of fun and I've enjoyed seeing my ten year-old son delighted by moving a loco and a car on some test track I set up. After obtaining the necessary easements from family, I have been thinking a lot about the “Where, What, and When” idea of what to do for a layout. This will likely be a shelf switching layout for the time being.
LED strip lighting "for the average Joe"
As I'm planning out my new Siskiyou Line 2, one of the great modern tech developments that I want to use is LED strip lighting.
Here's how I've been conducting my research and how I evaluate the various LED strip product offerings. More details to follow ...
SCARM Designer
I have been using SCARM to design the new railroad and since I am still a good 6 months away from actually building it, I thought I would try my hand at using SCARM to design some structures. Wanted to start small so I have done 3 trailers that will go into Frog Hollow Trailer Park. I think they came out pretty nice.
Thoughts on space available
I am building a portable layout that will fold up like an ironing board into a cabinet. I want to add over head lighting and even more importantly, i want to add a proscenium arch to fram everything. The problem is that I max height the layout can be from bottom of track to top of the arch would be about 14. The base of the layout is 2 inches so it leaves me with 12 inches to work with. Take an inch off of that for lighting wiring and diffuser thickness and I am down to about 11. I feel like I am just out of luck on this aspect and that will simply not be a tall enough viewing area.
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