Monday 30 March 2009

Change of plan?

It always happens... i settle on a plan, then i come up with an 'improved' version...

I've been thinking of making PnC feel more like it's on a ledge set between the coast and some mountains.  With this in mind I began thinking of scenes that could be incorporated into the layout.  The trackplan is likely to remain the same, but the scenery will alter around it.

Once i've managed to work out the plan properly rather than scribbles then i'll post it on here.  It's likely to involve making the inlet into an estuary and having the hotel sat at one side of it, then a short road side section, and then into a slightly shortened (only slightly) version of the fiddle yard.  Behind this there would be a road climbing away up a hillside behind the hotel off into the backscene giving the impression of a road cutting through the mountains.  That's all i've got so far, now i need to put pen to paper and work out how to do it...

I don't want to change the trackplan as i think it'll make great fun operationally but we'll have to see...

Saturday 21 March 2009

Something curious

Ted Polet has been a huge influence on my modelling, and his layout the Craigcorrie & Dunalastair Railway is one of the reasons that I model in 009 set in Scotland now.

I often dip into the Dutch group of the 009 society's website, but on a recent visit i noticed on this page adjacent to the 7th picture down on the left hand side of the second block of photos  an interesting name that i'd not noticed before... 'Loch na Cailliche'.  Now I have read LOTS about Ted's layout in the past, and can only remember this area being referred to as Inverlochan Moor, but looking back through a CD I once bought on Ted's layout it has always had this name...

Happy coincidence.  Hopefully I can make my layout worthy of carrying the same name as part of Ted's very inspirational line.

On the planning front, due to the rush to get Dunbracken finished for Tonbridge i'm enjoying some time off modelling, and will be extremely busy with work for a part time degree that i'm studying on day release from work.  This will be over in May so hopefully I can crack on with the baseboard construction after then.  For now I will just stick to the odd bit of stock construction.