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What did you do on your layout today? (N scale)


bill937ca

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Wiring done, track secured and starting to apply first layer of scenery.

I ran out of Kato ballast though and it's sold out from banzai. But inconvenient, knew I should've bought more bags!

 

Got a few more buildings coming, and about 50 trees!

 

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Claude_Dreyfus
14 hours ago, Claude_Dreyfus said:

That Indonesian 103 conversation certainly looks the business.

Hmmm, looks like the post I was referring to has been removed!

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Nope, just moved over to the what was delivered today topic. Sorry I missed your post about it to move with it.

 

its here

jeff

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As this layout was nt truly japanese(tho the trains are) and subsequently feeling a bit of a fraud 😂😂 I have nt posted progress as I would normally.

This is how it looks today.

i ve just connected the.ights up and realise I need to fit some black card to the inside of the buildings roof.

Last area to do will be the freight yard,managed to pick up some Kato yard buildings Via eBay and I ve ordered some platforms and freight.

All that remains really is to add small details now,figures,buses,cars etc.

i have ordered a couple of hot air balloons to fly over the layout👍😂
 

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Wow amazing stuff as usual Paul! Looks great! I love the mini carpark at the Star Wars area! Like how the personalized decals add a really nice touch to the entire diorama! 

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Over the past week. I ve added some detail to the layout.

figures to the swimming pool,

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trees around the dinosaur park

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Platform,freight and fork lift trucks to the goods yard

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and more or less finished of the plaza area,

 

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Martijn Meerts

Didn't do much on the layout as such, but I did finally get the hobby room to the point where it can be used as a hobby room again. Managed to run some trains for the first time in many months. Still some things to sort / store / throw away before it's completely done, but I can at least now go get the required wood for some additional sections of the layout, which also means finally starting on the main station and creating a temporary loop so I can start running some trains a bit more regularly.

 

To celebrate, I ended up buying a Fleischmann E10 loco and the Minitrix 1962 Rheingold set 😉

 

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15 hours ago, Pauljag900 said:

Next project,a tram layout that will sit next to the fun layout.

initial track plan using Kato Unitram track.

 

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Did he just say next project? 😁

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Martijn Meerts
10 minutes ago, serotta1972 said:

Did he just say next project? 😁

 

He's probably finished it already by now 😉

 

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21 hours ago, Tonytramman said:

Cleaned the track and removed few mm  of dust! Finally ran some trams 

 

Would love to see some if you get a chance buddy👍😀😀

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The other day I set up the new unitram loop and gave it a run with the pair of Portrams I have. After a few minutes, I got silly, and decided to see what else I could put on there. To my amazement, I got a Kato ES44AC and Maxi I unit to run around the R180 curves! Ok, well the front and rear axle of the locomotive would pop off at every curve and the coupler would yank off the first truck of the intermodal unit around each curve, but it would re-rail itself on the straights and keep right on going, no problem. and for what it's worth, without the loco, the Maxi I would sail around the curves by itself with no issue. Not that I plan to run it like this...

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Ok, then things got ridiculous. Here's a TGV duplex really challenging the "there's a prototype for everything" mantra:

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It too made it around the R180 curves for reasons I don't understand. I don't think there was any derailing/re-railing action, but I could here some plastic clicking as it wound around the bends, so it wasn't perfect by any means. Still, I didn't expect this to work at all...

 

Anyways, I've put everything back to normal and told the citizens to pretend this never happened.

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wont get away with it when the traction poles are up though! as I found when trying to use the (useless) tomix cleaner wagon, that's £70 i cant get back lol 

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7 minutes ago, James-SNMB said:

The other day I set up the new unitram loop and gave it a run with the pair of Portrams I have. After a few minutes, I got silly, and decided to see what else I could put on there. To my amazement, I got a Kato ES44AC and Maxi I unit to run around the R180 curves! Ok, well the front and rear axle of the locomotive would pop off at every curve and the coupler would yank off the first truck of the intermodal unit around each curve, but it would re-rail itself on the straights and keep right on going, no problem. and for what it's worth, without the loco, the Maxi I would sail around the curves by itself with no issue. Not that I plan to run it like this...

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If you can work on the radii, it seems quite prototypical for the US:

 

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