Hokoku in 1/80th scale.

[marknewton]

Inspired by Railsquid's thread, I spent an hour or so the other night mucking around with stock, track and buildings to determine whether I could do justice to Hokoku on a portable layout frame I've had sitting in my shed for far too long. It's 500mm by 2730mm. By happy coincidence my kitchen bench is the same width. And after a bit of fiddling and a few beers I decided I could:

 

 

 

The triangular thing shows the profile of the hill that will form the background. The track and platform will be raised up on a 2" high embankment. The station building and other structures will be at nominal ground level.

 

So having mocked this up, I then made a scale drawing to show where everything will go:

 

 

I'm off to see my plywood supplier on Monday.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[Eurostar25]

Excellent Mark, always good to see another japanese layout take shape!

[katoftw]

2.73M long is portable? haha

 

As above, another Japanese layout in the making. Yay!

[railsquid]

Glad to have been of inspiration :D

 

For those of us short on memory (I think there was a thread somewhere on the protoype), this is Hōkoku Station.

 

[marknewton]

2.73M long is portable?

Oddly enough, it is. The frame is made of aluminium channel, topped with 12mm birch ply. In its previous incarnation as a US prototype exhibition layout, two of us could easily pick it up and move it around. And that was with scenery made of plaster.

 

This time around I'll be using extruded foam scenery, no plaster, so I expect it will be even lighter. The backscene will be extruded PVC sheet, which is also very lightweight.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[Staffy]

looks good. excuse ignorance cut what is 1/80 scale?

[velotrain]

Japanese HO.