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Shortest ever layout? 20 scale feet in length!

Discussion in 'Members Personal Layouts' started by clive_t, May 20, 2018.

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  1. May 20, 2018 #1
    clive_t

    clive_t Full Member

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    OK technically it's a diorama, which I did as a quick and dirty entry into my local model club's monthly competition... but it could run with power supplied to the track!

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    The loco is a 'Hornet' resin kit from Black Dog Mining Co, which includes the driver (although I put a better head on him, as the supplied one made him look like Freddy Kruger with a hangover). I also fitted it with a Tenshodo WB31 motor bogie, the idea being that I would have it running as an end to end on the pipe factory exchange siding in my garden line. The appalling weather unfortunately killed that idea, but I like the notion of Gn15 as a modelling scale. The diorama itself is a base of expanded polystyrene packing material, with a lump of Peco 00 track. The rest is basically odds and sods from my modelling inventory.
     
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    York Paul

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    That's nice Clive, I like that its got real character.:thumbs:
     
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    Wot he said - definitely proves the old adage "keep it simple"
     
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    clive_t

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    Thanks gents, although I will readily admit that it has 'limited operating potential' :lol:
     
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    ianvolvo46

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    excellent Clive :tophat:
     
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    Toto

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    very charming diorama. Like it a lot. :thumbs:
     
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    jakesdad13

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    Loving it Clive! so much atmosphere in so small a space :tophat::tophat::tophat:

    Cheer's, Pete.
     
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    Kimbo

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    :thumbup: Nice one Clive.
    Kim
     
  9. May 21, 2018 #9
    clive_t

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    Many thanks for all your kind comments. I have just managed to upload a couple more photos to show some slightly different angles:

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    Hope you enjoy these :)
     
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    jakesdad13

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    Great photos Clive. It reminds me of a loco that used to be stabled at a sewage works in Brimington near Chesterfield where I live. The loco has been preserved at the Midland Railway Centre at Ripley in Derbyshire on the Golden Valley narrow gauge line.
    I reckon it would make a quirky theme for a layout, you could even give it an extra unusual element with smelly vision/scratch and sniff cards :avatar::avatar:

    Pete.
     

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