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| Topic Started: 30 Oct 2007, 04:37 PM (824 Views) | |
| Cagney boy | 30 Oct 2007, 04:37 PM Post #1 |
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hi all one of my layouts took me a week to build and finish but since then it has undergone many changes 
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| cclrcleethorpes | 30 Oct 2007, 05:15 PM Post #2 |
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The only layout I am involved with is CCLR, it's still not finished, and I doubt it ever will be. |
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| Cagney boy | 30 Oct 2007, 05:21 PM Post #3 |
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hey you've just had an extension so your getting closer ,is there any plans to extend it further across that river to its original location ?
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| colinpeake | 30 Oct 2007, 05:45 PM Post #4 |
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Original location?! The original location of the Cleethorpes Miniature Railway was pretty much the length between the two floodgates on the Kingsway-Lakeside stretch. Are you perhaps thinking of the old Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, the formation of which is partially under Thorpe Park? Shifting Sands took about a year or so to 'complete' but with a few additions afterwards to keep it fresh. My present, non-miniature (and therefore off topic) layout took about 4-5 months, but it is only a square foot... The next one might have to be achieved a little more quickly! Colin |
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| Cagney boy | 30 Oct 2007, 05:49 PM Post #5 |
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ok across the river to its next destination i haven't been there for years oh well will get there sometime <_< |
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| MuzTrem | 30 Oct 2007, 06:45 PM Post #6 |
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I think I'll answer that question as a politician would: it depends what you mean by finished  Most modellers say that a layout is never finished, and I think I'd agree with them. My garden railway - see www.freewebs.com/mvr for more information, if you don't mind the shameless plug! - was completed to the point where we could run trains in eight days. (If you're wondering how we did it so quickly, we didn't - we hired in a contractor to do it for us! :lol: ) But three years later, I am still adding new features to it, e.g. a new station building for Box End which is (finally!) approaching completion. So as long as I continue to add new features, the layout cannot be considered "finished". And I've now spent so long discussing that point, that you'll probably have forgotten that I've completely failed to answer your original question. You've got to hand it to these politicians, they're not as stupid as they look... 
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| Cagney boy | 30 Oct 2007, 07:00 PM Post #7 |
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i mean complete as in the scenery, wiring, track, able to run trains. but with out the really fine details like in my case n-gauge people ,telegraph pole wires etc any really fine detail n-gauge is easy you can cut corners i think i gonna write a book called the cheaters guide to building model railways
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| stuwebb | 30 Oct 2007, 07:28 PM Post #8 |
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Again u say scenery.....the Tarrent Valley 009 layout that i help with never goes to a show with the scenerly as it was before bits are changed and new bits addedand the track layout alters as we find possible improvements.... so u could say it has been 10 years to make it its current state. To get back to miniature railways we had a visiting 09 River Irt at the Expo NG.... |
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| Cagney boy | 30 Oct 2007, 07:30 PM Post #9 |
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i meant so that is complete before any changes in track buildings scenarios etc |
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| colinpeake | 30 Oct 2007, 07:36 PM Post #10 |
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Any pictures? Just to have a boring moderators moment, please bear in mind the modelling section is dedicated to models of miniature railways only - please can we have no further discussion of N, OO, OO9 here thanks... although they can be discussed in the mess room! Colin |
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| stuwebb | 30 Oct 2007, 07:40 PM Post #11 |
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Sorry Colin we were rather short of operators that day and only managed to take 6 pictures....of the acidents naturaly. Will try and take a picture a post it here |
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| glastonrail | 31 Oct 2007, 01:03 PM Post #12 |
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Sign of a true railway - one that is never 'finished.' During my modelling days I was alwasy planning or making changes to the layout, either inside or outside. At DMR we are always planning extra features and/or changes, even if its just a new diorama in the woodland section - it keeps the kids amused. 2007 has been a true testament to that for us.Cheers, Dom Greenop DMR |
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| Cagney boy | 31 Oct 2007, 04:24 PM Post #13 |
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true but you can only develop something so far after that you can do no more or if you try to do more you run the risk of going backwards and undoing all your work which is not good <_< |
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| chris krupa | 13 Nov 2007, 05:46 PM Post #14 |
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I have a partially complete 34th scale 10 1/4 inch gauge seaside line (think Colin's layout but different) which was started some five years ago and stalled after I moved. I now don't have room for the layout as originally planned. I'd still like to keep the same scenario but since this layout may never be completed perhaps it doesn't count. Chris |
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| Nick Tozer | 16 Nov 2007, 08:54 PM Post #15 |
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