Making a Start on my OO Gauge Micro Model Railway/ Railroad Exhibition Layout
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Hi all,
We have been nominated in the RUclips category of the Hornby Magazine Awards. It would be great if you could vote for us, please use the link below: www.keymodelwo.... Showing track plan, operating potential, steam locos running, base board construction, point operation.
Looks brilliant, can you do a video on the tubing point switches, for people that don't have a 3d printer.
Looking forward to seeing more on this layout.
here we go again..not looked in again for ages...catching up !!! looks really interesting this one..cheers..ade
Brilliant idea with the points! Browsing the internet, I found websites where the cable in tube was sold for railway modelling purposes, but found it too expensive. The cheap alternative that I found are bicycle brakes. A little stiff, but will still make corners and is easily cut to size;
I watched a video in which a guy used those thin metal binding wires used by florists to bind flower arrangements. I bought some on a reel and when inserted inside a tube work great ! ……was also very cheap !
Ooh, a new layout! I absolutely love watching how you create your amazing little layouts and this looks like it will be as interesting as ever.
Thanks
Started Documenting our layout last week and this is just what we will be attempting tomorrow! Keep the videos coming, like the short format always enjoyable, informative and most importantly inspiring.
This is a lot like the HO layout I used to have as a kid, nice loop with sidings. Green painted board. Built loads of kit houses with my dad and little trees from bent wire. Fleichsmann German and Piko dutch stuff. Lots of fun.
Thanks for the video, this is going to be a great working layout. Some thing I would have to do as limited space too. The points idea is awesome as no power needed. Looking forward to seeing more as usual!!😎🚂🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧🇺🇦
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I was excited you started another 00 micro layout when I see this pop up on my instagram. I am just getting back into Model Railways and train sets after 20 years away and been researching for the past 5 months, I have bought a Smokey joe and I have the caledonian belle too, which I see on your layout, I love that very cheap and great runner of a loco and it looks great too. I cant wait to see this layout progress and watch yours run around it... best of luck :)
Thanks. Don't over plan, best advice is keep it simple and just make a start, something running is better than nothing
@@BudgetModelRailways for sure, I dont plan on making it to hard, it will be alot less detail, more focus on trains itself... ;)
Nifty idea for the points, really helps in keeping your hands free on an exhibition and allows you more freedom to interact with visitors.
Interesting setup too.
Promising. I love this concept, minimalistic and nice. And you ressucitate the standard of point's commands of the 50s, the rodding, one of the best idea you can have for such a layout.
Great to see an actual example of wire-in-tube. I want to try it too. Great video!
Very interesting to see your new layout. On my last layout I did points control with heavy music wire inside brass tubing set into "ditches" cut into the fiberboard supporting the tracks and then covered up. I like your use of plastic as it is corrosion-free and naturally slippery. Also, congrats on using transition curves. My first layout was for trams and so had sharp 10 inch radius curves, but the use of transition sections really helped avoid derailments. I look forward to seeing you further develop this latest layout. Cheers from Wisconsin!
I'm working on a design for a compact loop with a shunting layout in the middle - as my son would like to run his Flying Scotsman around the loop and enjoy shunting operations as well. I came across transition curves on a US channel and was thinking they might make the operation of larger tender engines around the loop more successful. I'll watch this with interest.
You can't beat a classic Cyril Freezer track plan
Looks good Mike you have incredible vision and what you build always looks great!
Thanks
Great little layout concept Mike. Looking forward to seeing more on this exhibition layout. - Nicholas.
Very clever little layout. Small volume that packs a punch. Very smart adding the cut-out for easy handling and portability.
Now that is how to maximise the absolute minimum! 😃 Reminds me of that experimental layout you did when you tested which locos could get round the minimal radius curves (still can’t believe that 9F did it!) 😊 Great to see a few of your 0-4-0s being given a chance to shine in their own right! Good to see wire-in-tube as well. An almost forgotten art! 😎
Cheers mate 🍻👍
You are master of the small oval layouts for sure..this has all the ingredients for a masterpiece...can't wait...
That’s a great way of doing the point control. I’ve used the same PTFE tube but with welding wire inside which means having to go fairly straight, and sort of picture hanging wire which is a little more flexible. Retaining it isn’t easy but a bit (ok a lot) of superglue and activator spray (that’s the important bit) gets it in the end.
This layout reminds me of your awesome 18” one.
Your brick wall behind the layout; awesome patina, great background for shots!
Take care gents
Great track plan, really looking forward to seeing this one grow and develop 😊👍
Looks like quite an interesting little layout can't wait to see how it turns out to be
I use rechargeable battery power to power 009 T-Trak layouts. It gives our group the flexibility to set up anywhere we like. We recently did an exhibition on the platform of a preserved railway station with both trains and an above ground section of the subway system right next to us.
The cutout brings the memory of a departed friend to mind. He loved adding things like that to his layout sections to make them easy to carry.
What a tidy layout to build, in reality a lot of people only have a small space for their layouts and not a whole room or loft.
That's what I think, so I was keen to promote the concept, especially as this great old track plan by Cyril Freezer has so much operating potential
Of all the things I love about this channel, that is the thing I love the most.
Look forward to seeing you and the layout at Sompting next year. Can’t wait for your progress updates.
Fantastic. I live in a small flat so most of my OO stuff is in storage, been getting into Z scale but it's quite expensive and a bit of a novelty. Hoping to make something similar to this with curves that a terrier and maybe a 14xx will be able to handle. Looking forward to seeing how this develops. My interest in making something work for me in OO is inspired by your previous micro layouts!
The Terrier will just about go round this but occasionally de-rails. I think a smoother curve (mine is a bit erratic) of about 22in dia might be alright. For some reason my Airfix 14xx wanted nothing to do with micro ovals.
@@BudgetModelRailways Got a distinction for my leaving certificate applied. Measuring out for my platforms.
@@BudgetModelRailways You may well find that the Hornby J94 0-6-0 will cope with these curves, but needs the older wider couplings attached. Also possibly the Bachmann class 08 diesel. And in the past you built a railcar powered by a Lima HO class 33, I believe? That will cope with curves like these. My Lima class 33 is fine on my microlayout, as is the old LIma 4F (also HO scale). You can see my layout at: ruclips.net/video/uBCpKOcWuHk/видео.html
Looking forward to the build, really like the idea of a compact 00 using 040s
For wire in tube control you can use push/pull Bowden cables from model aircraft. I have used these before. I even used them to extend a point motor as it would have been out of reach otherwise. Like the new layout.
This one is looking smart,,can't wait for the progress on this layout.
Always awaiting a vedio from you. The channel made me believe that I also can have a layout. Which I was only dreaming about. Thanks from Sri Lanka.
cant wait to see it come to life well done
Very good , best regards from Portugal .
Hello to Portugal
Used similar track plan for my layout with concealed siding at rear. By putting an isolation gap at rear of layout on same side as point frog you get what I call a stealth siding, very usefull
Looking forward to seeing it progress.
Super layout. Minor suggestions for more play value. Turn front siding into a passing siding with a house track, put two sidings on each of the interior siding tracks, and consider adding an additional track switch to the main loop, which can be a siding now, or an extension to a future layout addition later. Enjoy. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.
Sadly being only 4x2 ft there is no room. Turning the siding into a loop greatly reduces the length of the train for instance
That's why you have a house track. I hope you enjoy. My first was four by four feet, later connected to a two by three foot extension, and lots of fun. 💙 T.E.N.
@@tracynation2820 sorry, but what's a house track?
Super. A house track is a siding off either end of the passing siding, usually terminated as close to the end of the table, or slightly beyond, as possible, and disguised with a locomotive shed or car shop sticking half way out beyond the edge of the table supporting the track and warning the pedestrians. If you have access to a curved switch, you could connect the main to the front siding, creating a passing siding, then put a siding right to your side of the table edge, or beyond, (one more locomotive.) so that you can access the track while you are sitting. This track change allows more equipment on the rails, allows for more fun and involvement in the railroad, gives you a place to try out your new locomotive while the passenger express blasts by on the main, helps prevent boredom, and gives you a way to run your train "hands free," which is just being able to run around your own train without a giant 0-5-0 hand switcher having to move the train around every time. Good luck, I love these kinds of layouts. 💙 T.E.N.
That is a wonderful idea for a micro layout. May have to ‘nick’ the idea for my sons lol
I have a few other past videos along similar lines but this track plan has the most operating potential, you can even get older larger diesels around it
@@BudgetModelRailways bonus is it’s so small I could store it in their room. Thank you
@@dlmccloud5556 if you put a stout to here sided backscene on it it can be stored version either it's end or side
Very interesting layout design 🤩👌👍
I've just subscribed after stumbling onto your channel be interesting to see what you can create in a small space, great video, great commentary, looking forward to seeing your progress 👍
Thanks, we have a few other videos on various micro layouts, I really enjoy them. Thanks for subbing
I've got nowhere to store a layout, I've currently got an eight by four board lent up behind the sofa. so this is something I would definitely try.
I like your mini oval layouts! I have a 85x95 OO-scale layout based on radius 1 and three switches (station track and one siding). I only have 0-4-0 Terrier, Ruston, m one 0-6-0 Terrier and one small Prairie. However I would like a locomotive with tender. Which ones would fit on R1?
I am really looking forward to watching this one take shape. Have you done a video on using batteries to power a layout?
Not yet but it's planned
Hi Mike.
A very interesting layout for exhibition display. I congratulate you on some original thinking regarding points control.
Just one question Mike: Is the Cyril Freezer track plan sheet available as displayed on here, or have you enlarged a photo-copy from one of his books? I have a C F book of my own but, as time passes, the hobby's advancing technology seems to make some of his suggestions unfeasible. Some adaptions are possible but not in all cases. Shame, as I do rate him highly as both an enthusiast and an author.
Incidentally, I voted on the Hornby website and the vote for my favourite channel went to yours truly. Keep up the good work with your prudent advice for us pensioners and those not so well off. 👍
Paul.
Hi Paul. I used it from the original very old book, I could probably photo it and let you have it. I find most of his plans still work ok, and indeed they are often still reprinted with just a few tweaks. In his last plans he stopped showing power inputs and isolated sections etc so they could be adapted according to DC, DCC etc
Ps thanks for the vote
Hi Mike.
Thanks for the info, and thanks for the offer to photo it. However, I'll hunt around for some old books as I do like to keep them for reference purposes, and reading them often gives me inspiration. Cheers!
Paul. 👍
Great start would your hornby railroad 08 work because you managed to get it round 18 inches also dose it cost anything to exhibit you layout because I am thinking of exhibit a layout
Yes the 08 does run round it. Costs are just travelling expenses which some exhibitions will cover. If you aren't in a club then you usually will need to have something a bit different to exhibit.
Pretty cool, if that's filament in the tube then aren't you concerned it'll get brittle? Where's the expo going to be?
It's a first attempt so time will tell, it's easy to replace. The show is at Sompting in May
What is the radius of those curves. I am doing scratch built 55n3 and Am thinking of building much smaller like this layout. This is very inspiring.
They are 10in radius so 20in dia. Much smaller and coupling lock becomes an issue, hope this helps
You go through layouts like there going out of style
My layout is oval hornby 1st radius and has only two wiggly sidings, but I'm content with that. I try to pack as much detail into my layout as possible.
It's all you need, have fun
@@BudgetModelRailways I do, although I did start off with a model train set of the Flying Scotsman which I got when I was 10, the 2nd radius curve won't fit with the space I've got, so I can only go 1st radius. I have a branch line style layout as the size suggests.
Very interesting your point control a video on this and supplier's be useful. My layout is powered by a 12v old Bosch drill with battery feeding an pwm and switch ( thanks to you). My problem just how to mount point control with corrugated card baseboard any Mike/anyone
Could be tricky, you would probably have to use a thin ply top and surface point motors
How about hotglueing the tube to the baseboard surface? or "good quality Pva"?not the watery handcraft stuff.
My switching layout eightfoot long by nine inch wide (inglenook with a kick back added)uses brass wire in tube but they are only short straight runs!
I hope one of your layouts will have port some day, cause it feels like ports are cursed on the channel
I finished, exhibited and sold a harbour layout in 009
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Found them
Great, thanks
Hello do you know if there is any sort of straight oo gauge track you can easily change the length of or how to change the length of normal track thx
Flexi track is easily cut to length. Or you can cut a standard length with a hacksaw. Flexi track is easier to cut. It's also worth rummaging through second hand track as Lima etc made some non standard length. Hornby make some very short straights that often help fill a gap
@@BudgetModelRailways thanks
Hi did you use flexi track ?
Yes, min set track is 30in so too big
@@BudgetModelRailways ok cheers, I have a small area to make a layout, at present I'm starting a end to end but would like to make a loop. Really like your videos very helpful 👍
did come back but late
You seem to have built more layouts than most people have had hot dinners. I know your videos have started lots of people building layouts including myself (after 70+ years) - three layouts and counting. I'm afraid I am becoming a llittle bit cynical over the wealth of layouts which consist of an oval with points. In my mind, this is hardly realistic. Real railways have an up and a down line. So, I tried a double oval. Have you tried wiring a double oval? You either have to have two completely separate layouts or go to DCC (perish the thought). Maybe my cynicism is misplaced. Keep up the good work.
Hi Dave, I agree that a single or double track end to end is more realistic operationally, but I do like watching trains go round lol
@@BudgetModelRailways I think you and Charlie Chadwick are the two opposite ends of the hobby.
An interesting new layout Mike. Very similar in concept to my O-16.5 layout ruclips.net/video/ovmnPfEfEtE/видео.html , which is also booked into Sompting next year. It will be interesting to see the two scales in comparison. I'm looking forward to seeing how this one progresses.
Be great to be exhibiting at the same show
Just a grey screen and no video at present mate
May be having trouble?
It's a premier, it takes a while to let load