That's an amazing layout. Is that in your attic, Peter?
Thanks Andrew. Yes in the attic. The advantage of having an older house with less cross beams than modern stuff coupled with having been here a long time giving me the chance to build it gradually. I'm thinking it could get a bit of use over the next three weeks or so!
Peter actully employs a team of 2000 '00' gauge navvies, in 00 gauge temporary camps. Those tiny workers did all the hard work. His wife actually grafts hardest, making 6000 00-gauge meals a day: 2000 1:76.2-scale full English breakfasts in the morning, two tiny cheese and pickle sandwiches at noon, each half a millimetre in circumference, followed by a hearty microscopic dinner of beef and ale stew.
All Peter does is provide their pay, two shillings and sixpence a week. But as this is actual size, the hapless workmen have to work all through the night getting the huge coins to the 00-gauge bank. And he has the manager turn them away, as he has done every morning for five years. Terribly cruel really.
I'm the one who leaves all those shoes in the carriageway.
Very impressive, needs some diesels and/or a conductor rail though!
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Thanks Mark.
Just above the signal box in this pic you might spot a yellow front end. This is actually a diesel. There are two others on the layout but they are out numbered 7:1 by 'proper' engines
I like your setup a lot Peter, looks brilliant. I have an interest in these and all things model too. Used to have a good layout, some years ago now and not to the level/detail which you have achieved, but still, I loved it. Good times, have often thought that if the time comes that I can't/won't do the classic car thing anymore that I may return to it.
The first car and transport show of the year for me is usually in April, an annual local event which is in conjunction with a model railway exhibition, that's a great little show, classic cars and model railways, Heaven!
Jasonmarie wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:17 pm
Just had this email and thought of you peter .
Hornby have a display area/shop about a mile from me but I've never been. The wife was saying a while back that we could go this week as we had booked a week off. Nice thought while it lasted