tomix track plan

sunhuntin · 2015-10-27T13:58:48+00:00

ive been thinking about this layout for about a year now, give or take, and have just bought the most expensive pieces last night: two 3-way points. thanks...

sunhuntin

here you go, super. next to, inside and on top sideways.

edit: images accidentally deleted from photobucket, and original files misplaced.

Super

Thats perfect, thank you Sunhuntin. Little bit smaller than I was hoping for.

sunhuntin

no worries, super. you could secure him face forward in the truck with a bit of poster tack or similar, and then surround with cotton wool etc. would look quite nice.

just secretly, im getting a tad obsessed with the capsule stuff. keep seeing more i would like. lol. putting a file together of stuff i want to try and buy eventually, but wont get more until the layout is done so i can see how crowded its going to be.
ordered 20 assorted n scale figures from the uk. they specifically listed figures with children, so request 2 or 3 of each, with the rest to be done how they like, as it was a lucky dip type listing. ive found n scale children figures near impossible to find. i almost wish ho figures would do, as the range is much better.

Super

"N" scale children must be very small. There looks to be a very wide variety of the Capsule and must be pretty popular as there are just as many Capsule listings as regular Plarail listings on the Auctions of Japan.

sunhuntin

finally went back to the club tonight, havent been since before christmas, and mocked up the tracks.

im going to buy some half straights [14cm] for the sidings and might get some buffers as well to finish the look.

ive also located the watermill nearer to the siding on that side and painted a pond around it. next time i go out there will be another couple coats of paint and sketching out the pathways i want.

Super

Looks like fun, I like it! 🙂

DalaGStanator

Wonder if there's anything similar to AnyRail for Plarail track out there.

sunhuntin

updated photos.

the layout so far. i need to repaint the water at the back to lighten it up and also fill the gap between it and the track bed. the track has not been fixed down yet, except for the points.

i went out today to run percy on the big layout, set my layout up for the photo and decided to drill the holes to thread the wiring for the points down out of the way. then i wrapped the wires up with a cable tie and finally stapled everything to the underside.

Super

Good planning equals good wiring, looking good Sun. Is the water feature the lifelike water material?

sunhuntin

thanks, super. the points are meant to powered, but they arent going to be, but i didnt want to cut the wiring off just in case.

the water is just plain old paint. 🙂 the bit i will repaint is the back two corners. i want it look like an ocean of sorts, as thats got the dock with cranky, bulstrode and captain. looks ok, just a bit too dark.

sunhuntin

been a while since i updated this. along with whats shown, ive also added some "flower" material around the sides and back of the station and edges of the pond.

i had to lift and reposition the bottom curve to fit the buffer on the siding. also meant i had to repaint part of the grey. as soon as i find my green, it will be blended back in.

view from the rear. i need to fill in the edges of the wharf where cranky is, but been putting it off since i mixed the color some and will be lucky to get it the same.

and a close up of the newly populated duck pond at the water wheel.

Super

I really like seeing your evolution of this project Sun. Its looking good and I love the duck pond and water wheel

ripley802

That is very cool. Great work.

Nigels

Hi Sun, good looking start there for sure 🙂

You might want to have a look at this link; A japanese layout story

Forgetting the element of the B train shorty (Bandai n gauge range) it has some great ideas and insights such as using elevation to great effect as well as reasons not to have track running parallel to the board edge etc... Using some of this guys techniques its amazing what you can pack into a small space 🙂

sunhuntin

thanks, nigels. hes built a great layout. mine is designed to be more basic, hence the simple track and lack of loops etc. i wanted something i can set running and largely forget about. the only thing i might look into is some kind of fencing tacked around the outside to prevent anything from falling or being knocked off the sides.

its going to be stored at the clubrooms, so needs to be able to slot into a corner without worrying about bits being damaged, which is another reason why theres nothing terribly exciting and also why all the buildings etc can be removed.

Nigels

Gotcha and under those circumstances I can fully understand the decisions 🙂

I don't know what you are doing for buildings, but Tomy make a great range of N gauge buildings and even some incredibly realistic model cars - I just today received a box of the cars among my latest red cross parcel from Japan 🙂 I have to admit they are even better than I hoped they would be, incredible level of detail and would you believe even the wheels rotate - I wouldn't have thought that possible on something only a few mm long lol!!

sunhuntin

for buildings, im using the 3 tomix thomas ones released [station, water wheel and windmill] and then any others are likely to be from the capsule range, which is where the airport is from. i might get the ice cream factory and a couple of others. need to populate with more characters first, and then fill in with buildings.

will check out your thread shortly and see what the cars look like. mine wont have many, just a couple on one of the front corners.

Nigels

I'll post some pics of the cars later, I didn't get round to posting any pics of anything yesterday as it was more like a red cross hamper than a red cross parcel (would you believe 17.5kg lol!!) that's what you get for buying 'job lots' when you're only after a single but rare item in the lot 🙂

Mind you found some nice things in one of the job lots I never noticed as was blinded by the item I wanted, for example one of the Konami 'digi-trains', complete set, train, controller and track. Used, but looks almost new. Interesting set as the train is IR controlled 🙂

sunhuntin

no updated photo yet, but! IT LIVES!

thanks to our master repairman paul, the track took power tonight and ran a club loco for the first time ever. paul was able to put a step down convertor on the original tomix controller for me, which was great.

so, so happy to have made it work after all these years. taken a long time.

Super

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