PREVIOUSLY: I have a layout assembled mostly from Bachmann EZ-Track with a couple older Bachmann curves that my grandma Saundra gave me suspended between the EZ-Track ones because several of my EZ-Track curves are missing rail joiners and/or rails.On the layout I run my Bachmann Thomas and Henry.I used to run my James,too,but he needs the piece that holds his guide wheels mended or replaced.For rolling stock,I have Annie and Clarabel,an Express coach,a troublesome truck,a refrigerator car w/track-cleaner,and a tank car.The latter two are awaiting hook-and-loop couplers.I have Harold and Bertie,as well as a passenger plane I made from Legos that lands at the airfield.There are two stations.I used the Tomy Wellsworth Station,which I had two of and was conviently to scale.There is a level crossing made from a straight EZ-Track Terminal Rerailer and a level crossing kit sold by Bachmann.There are some signals and a plate girder bridge I made from cereal box cardboard painted black,with black construction paper that had rectangles cut out glued to the girders so they'd look more like girders.
Henry: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Layout_1.png)
Thomas & James: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Layout_2.png)
The bridge: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Layout_4.png)
The Level Crossing: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Layout_5.png)
The ticket counter: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Layout_7.png)
The Yard: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Layout_8.png)
A farmhouse: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/My_HO_farmhouse.png)
A field: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/My_HO_field.png)
A top-down view: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/My_Home_Layout_top-down_01.png)
A coupling hook in use as Thomas fetches Henry's coach: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Coupling_Hook_in_use_01.png)
A video link showing Henry pulling a goods train.I'm known everywhere else as ZeldaTheSwordsman,by the way.I joined this forum before I started those other accounts,hence the discrepancy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FqC73rpR8
Now:
I have more nickel-silver rail track now.The tracks are reconfigured for something of a harbour. Henry has come a long way, although Thomas and James will require soldering to run again. The bridge is broken. I'll try to mend it, but I don't know. I'm working on a model Pizza Hut, as I like it and the layout needs a restaurant. There's two stations, an extremely unfinished scratchbuilt mini-Tidmouth and another, unnamed one that I'm making from an extended LifeLike kit and a Tomy Wellsworth. As for industries I'm planning to model the "Sodor Fuel Co." and one I made up, the "Tidmouth Fish Company(TFC for short)." I'm currently saving up to buy a lot of brand-new nickel-silver rail EZ-Track for my upcoming tabletop layout.
Henry: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Bachmann_Henry_in_Henrys_Old_Sha-7.png) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Bachmann_Henry_in_Henrys_Old_Sha-9.png) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Bachmann_Henry_in_Henrys_Old_Sha-10.png)
Pizza Hut: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Model_Pizza_Hut_01.png)
Thomas: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Model_RWS_Thomas_05.png)
A certain someone who will be making a few cameos: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/HO_Princess_Zelda.png)
A video link showing Henry running after I repaired him(poor guy had derailment problems): (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/th_CLIP0078.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/?action=view¤t=CLIP0078.flv)
The layout, top-down view: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/My_Home_Layout_top-down_02.png)
PIZZA HUT! :D, very great for a floor based layout! Hows about measuring it and getting a piece of plywood, unless you really can't because it's huge and all. ;)
Love the pizza hut building...you made me hungry :P lol
Seriously though, your layout looks impressive so far. Keep up the good work, I am looking forward to seeing more pictures in the future. ;)
Hay, Pizza Hut was a really great add to your railway ;). Who dosen't want pizza on their railway. I think i'll have some pizza now. Hay you also gave me an idea to add to my railway when I start to make it.
Well till the next post...later.
Dosen't Life-Like make Pizza Hut? :o (Oh, I mean in HO... ;D)
well, my sodor layout will have a tomy Red Bridge from one of its old sets and i am putting supports down for the track to lay. i will have pictures of the layout eventually.
Hey cool, can't wait to see thee pictures... ;)
Well, I'm making a tabletop layout in the near future. It's going to be an oval with an abbreviated run 'twixt Tidmouth and Crovan's Gate. The Pizza Hut will be included. I'm also including a demi-RWS Tidmouth Harbour so that I can have a loading/unloading point for goods trains(including the Flying Kipper). Lastly, there will be a carriage siding(elevated to save room) and a small independently-powered siding for a station pilot like, say, Rosie(whom I shall model later) or Thomas. That way the little engine can fetch or stow the coaches and then go back. Plus they won't run into the back of the express when Henry pulls out of Tidmouth. ;D
i had a pizza hut model before i sold it, and a bk set with the words home of the whopper on it.
I bet yours didn't have tables, menus, a service counter, a kitchen, sitting customers, and wait staff. Mine will. :)
Hollow inside? Go inside a Pizza Hut, take notes, it's very easy. But they probably won't let you unless you order something, so don't forget the bread sticks! ;) Glad to hear your hitting the tabletop. Foam will make a better base then plywood, but still, measuring out stuff is a HUGE deal. Foam is used for you can carve it to make river beds, ridges, and easily make tunnels and mountains by stacking layers and carving. Ah, but I'll use some plywood. Only elevations is the stream, and that will be a vertical dip for I will have retaining walls into a reservoir.I will just cut and shape the plywood. (With goggles. ;D)
If you plan on a river, be sure to spackle the river bed, and paint it with a water resistant latex black paint... The Woodland Scenic water products are absorbed by the foam, and will take too many coats before you get it to look right...
I have some thick acrylic paints. Plus, I can make a bed for the water with bristol board(cereal box type cardboard).
Bad news about the Pizza Hut, the building sides are kinda damaged. Good knews, though: I will be getting my back allowance probably this weekend, and I'll get the garage cleaned out and then CONSTRUCTION SHALL BEGIN! FINALLY!
Quote from: ZeldaTheSwordsman on September 25, 2008, 04:14:03 PM
I bet yours didn't have tables, menus, a service counter, a kitchen, sitting customers, and wait staff. Mine will. :)
no it was just an empty space, but it did has some cars i glued to the drive threw
Quote from: ZeldaTheSwordsman on September 13, 2008, 12:07:13 AM
Thomas: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/ZeldaTheSwordsman/Model_RWS_Thomas_05.png)
QuoteSeriously dude what did you do to your Thomas?
Tried to improve him. I was making him a bit more realistic. Unfortunately, he's currently got some busted wiring and will remain inoperable for some time.
Quote from: ZeldaTheSwordsman on December 13, 2008, 08:21:05 PM
Unfortunately, he's currently got some busted wiring and will remain inoperable for some time.[/i]
Why not just get a new one? If I had a Thomas that was inoperable I'd just get a new one. But that's just me.
He's the very first of my locos. I'm a sentimental as well as a pack rat.
I am like that too! ;D But I replace my models but keep the broken ones. I now have four Thomas Models
my Thomas was broken too, two front buffers and the lamp was missing and the strips were scraped off. Eventually,I got a new one
I'm getting the Hornby one for chrismas. And note the operative word "currently" in "Unfortunately, he's currently got some busted wiring and will remain inoperable for some time." I was never quite happy with Thomas' appearance(plus I was attempting to RWS-ify him), so at last I decided to bash him. The major changes I made were: a full set of four lamp-irons(three on the running plate, one on the smokebox in front of the funnel), an open cab, and open cab windows. Unfortunately a wire got pulled off the circuit board, and then more wires got pulled out, one at the motor end. When I do fix him I'm gonna eliminate that circuit board altogether.
Quote from: thomasj219 on December 14, 2008, 08:59:45 PM
I am like that too! ;D But I replace my models but keep the broken ones. I now have four Thomas Models
Same with me. I replace my models but keep the broken ones. I'm on my fourth Thomas model too! Freaky........
Quote from: ZeldaTheSwordsman on December 14, 2008, 10:04:27 PM
I'm getting the Hornby one for chrismas. " I was never quite happy with Thomas' appearance."
Do you mean the Bachmann Thomas or the Hornby Thomas??? If you meant Bachmann-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. If you meant Hornby I'm right with ya.
Bachmann. The Hornby one will become an RWS model. What annoys me about the Bachmann one is that his cab isn't open.
Quote from: ZeldaTheSwordsman on December 21, 2008, 07:16:51 PM
Bachmann. The Hornby one will become an RWS model. What annoys me about the Bachmann one is that his cab isn't open.
That's nothing a bit of time and effort won't do. Use a mini drill and cut the plastic away, just wire it properly!
Well, I accidentally caused practically all of the wires to get pulled off the little circuit board.
Quote from: ZeldaTheSwordsman on December 22, 2008, 06:13:23 PM
Well, I accidentally caused practically all of the wires to get pulled off the little circuit board.
Then wire them as pick-ups to motor. That's what I did.
I'm getting the Hornby one for Xmas.
Zelda,
How come on your top-view layout some of the track looks blue? Is it just your camera, lighting, angle, etc.?
It was the lighting.
when will you show us some layout pictures? i am dying to see them
When we finally get the frakking garage organised and knock together the table.
Simple plywood, or a sectional layout?
Josh
Just plywood. But the garage, the only place for the layout, is a mess. (The rolleyes emote is broken) What is it about garages...
We as humans find garages a good place to store random crap in awkward spots.
We can barely walk through mine, and to think there's a 1969 Pontiac in there! Lucky my layout is in my room... Except to fumes. If I wish to paint, I have to open my door and crack the window; during winter. I love the cold, so I don't mind. Plus the cars sound nice passing by on the main street. (Along with a few Federal Qs roaring up on the fire trucks! ;)) I have this very bad liquid cement that barely attaches to anything, but I'll use it on soft plastics/fibers. After all, that crap is extremely flammable, extremely hazardous fumes, burn your eyes when you have the smell of it accidentally put into your face, and it isn't all that safe.
Hey, don't worry. Just buy a garage heater in the winter times! :) We have one, but it never got opened and had stuff on it now... Go figure.
Josh
Pizza hut!!! hey i found sir top hat! :D
Here's an overdue status report. Still no tabletop layout, but lately we've finally been sorting out the bloody garage, so I might have one by Xmas. Over the summer I acquired some more rolling stock and another engine. Also a really good station kit and a signal box kit. You're probably wondering what rolling stock and which engine, so here:
*2 more trucks
*1 brakevan
*2 composite coaches
*Emily
I got Emily's coaches as a present for Xmas last year, so that's taken care of. Incidentally, Emily was slightly damaged when I took her out of her package: The screw hole for her rear bogie was stripped! I didn't discover it until she'd shown a tendency to derail for some reason. So I had to do some gluing.