Good job making a layout out of cardboard. Lots of people now making train layouts out of new materials, like cardboard and foam ( myself included). Making layouts out of wood baseboards is sooo last century.
One doesn't have to go far to scrounge boxes from local traders and most are delighted to get shot of them as they take up room and have to use staff time to get rid of them. I get loads as I have people saving them for a local charity I support. Every little helps!
Nice to see the face behind the voice. great little video. I actually was searching for a way to make these and yours was the first place I looked. thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the great work.
@@BudgetModelRailways cool... Didn’t even consider it as an option tbh, however I do have relatively free access to 48x40 sheets of mdf and a industrial table saw so I have my baseboard plan ready
Impressed. Considering to use this baseboard method for my next layout. Which will be in a 8ft square room, that's a lot of cardboard but cheaper than using wood
What an amazing idea to convert 3 boxes into a brilliant shunting layout. Without sounding stupid, how do I work out the points on the track layout from needing to be left or right hand please?
Thanks. Depends whether your track comes in from the left or the right and where you want the siding. Any Rail is a free download track planner which I use. You can input your board size and then try out different track plans and it will tell you what you need. If you are buying points use Peco as they are much better for a shunting layout as they have smaller plastic parts which means less locos stalling on points
I have two large boxes of which are 60 inch x 15 in each that'll keep me going during the winter months I was going to buy a 200cm x 70cm picnic table which folds in half but the thought of drilling holes for the wiring and gluing track onto cork sheet onto a nice looking table that cost nearly £100 put me off! I now know the cardboards got the vote! it will be lighter to store upright out of harms way of the dangerous upright hoover as well.
@@BudgetModelRailways I went and bought the HM6000 for my class 56 and wagons heres hoping it works.. I had my shunting yard in a living room cupboard but it got semi claustrophobic and trying to fit anything into that cupboard was a job in itself ( i could feel the anger management course coming on when things got a bit tight to operate the DCC etc ) I had the elite controller on a sliding desk keyboard tray underneath the table and the electronic wiring of the points controllers modules were impossible to wire as it required knee work so it had to go! now onward with the cardboard layout and i will remove the table and all the gear and transfer it to the cardboard Idea and just store it on its end that way i can pull it out and sit it on the table i bought, with the HM6000 & HM 6010 modules on the back of the layout wall out of sight etc
Hi, Thank you for sharing this method. I'm in the process of building a model tram layout in OO gauge and have got to the stage of thinking of a light weight baseboard. My trams, paths, road surface, granite setts & buildings are all made on printed card. My track will be card and tin foil with live overhead wire. wanting a baseboard about 5 feet x 2 feet. I may try a 3mm MDF over the boxes as I need a firm support for the poles to support the overhead. regards Paul.
Yes, there is something magical about a model tram running along with an overhead wire. Mine are OO gauge from Pete Watson, He has some lovely models in card. They are 4 1/2" in length, 1 1/8" width and 2 1/2" in height. I want to use a No switch, No electronics, start/stop system. This means the trams do the switching for each other. ruclips.net/video/7U31u7Juwlo/видео.html This is a N gauge layout using this switching system. Regards Paul.
Another very clever idea Mike. As you may know I do tend to throw money at my model railways but I still find what you do very interesting and would never dream of criticising you. Like you I wonder why anyone would watch a video and then click the dislike button. If you don't like it then don't watch it. Clicking the like button is a positive statement while clicking the dislike is a very negative thing to do. I guess it is easy to dislike something when you can do it anonymously! ..................John
Hi John, I love your layouts, it's horses for courses. We have a serial disliker who just clicks on dislike on most of our videos as soon as they are posted, very strange?!
Don't worry about it Mike. There is nothing to dislike in anything you do. Your ideas are super for showing anyone that model railways do not have to cost the earth. Perfect for young and old alike who don't have much disposable income. Keep up the good work and I for one will keep coming back. ............................John
Another amazing idea wish mine could get built that quick still working on the steps from the upper level to the lower one not eve laid the track properly. Keep up the good work mate.
This is a very practical way of making a baseboard. If you want to do it free you are at the mercy of the available boxes. However, if you willing to pay you can specify the size and quantity you want. Here's just one source: www.kitepackaging.co.uk/scp/boxes/cardboard-boxes/ You have to buy 50 at a time, but at less than 50p each you can build a lot of boards or share with a lot of people. They're also brand new.
Just some empty cardboard boxes and some sheets of thick corrugated card. My electrical appliance store lets me take whatever I want for free and most supermarkets have empty boxes by the till. Craft knife ruler hot .glue gun
Hi there. We are still in the dog house for the grey paint we got on my wife's white window blinds, nothing we tried got that off! Many thanks for your comment
I had the layout for about a year, sold it and then saw it listed on eBay about six months later, so it survived lots of transport etc. I found it to be pretty robust. Both using corrugated card and empty boxes sandwiched by card seem to work very well and of course are very light,
Budget Model Railways Hm well maybe I’ll give it a try on my rifle case. It’s either I use the cardboard method you guys use or I use foam board. Either one will be glued down in some way, still have to figure out what’s best to glue cardboard to plastic or foam to plastic since the rifle case is made of plastic. Thanks for the reply and keep up the good work!! 👍🏼
Sorry I'm not sure now, approx 8cm by 12cm but you can use whatever boxes you can find, I've built three different ones depending on what boxes I can get for free
Well six inches is really the narrowest you can get away with 8 or 9 is better. Then as many as you need to make it 33/39 inches long. Depth does not matter as its bulk not weight.
Good job making a layout out of cardboard. Lots of people now making train layouts out of new materials, like cardboard and foam ( myself included). Making layouts out of wood baseboards is sooo last century.
One doesn't have to go far to scrounge boxes from local traders and most are delighted to get shot of them as they take up room and have to use staff time to get rid of them. I get loads as I have people saving them for a local charity I support. Every little helps!
Nice to see the face behind the voice. great little video. I actually was searching for a way to make these and yours was the first place I looked. thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for watching and commenting
I love these videos. As a low budget, short on time modeller myself, they're a great source of inspiration.
Thanks for your support. These days with so many time pressures the quick simple approach is as important as the cheap element.
Simple, cheap, strong, light weight, eco friendly...... The lists of benefits with this method just go on and on! Well done!
Thanks Luke, I've yet to find a down side!
We are hoping to make another one as a live steam so people can actually watch it being made in a couple of hours.
I did have some trouble if an excessive amount of watered down scenic glues or water spray are put on the baseboard but that can be easily avoided.
Likewise, we had to be a bit sparing, have you got any pics of your cardboard base board?
Hey hey that’s brill... mainly as I work for one of the largest producers of cardboard in Europe lol cool 👍🏻👍🏻
We have several other videos with cardboard base boards Inc a three level exhibition layout
@@BudgetModelRailways cool... Didn’t even consider it as an option tbh, however I do have relatively free access to 48x40 sheets of mdf and a industrial table saw so I have my baseboard plan ready
Impressed. Considering to use this baseboard method for my next layout. Which will be in a 8ft square room, that's a lot of cardboard but cheaper than using wood
What an amazing idea to convert 3 boxes into a brilliant shunting layout. Without sounding stupid, how do I work out the points on the track layout from needing to be left or right hand please?
Thanks. Depends whether your track comes in from the left or the right and where you want the siding. Any Rail is a free download track planner which I use. You can input your board size and then try out different track plans and it will tell you what you need. If you are buying points use Peco as they are much better for a shunting layout as they have smaller plastic parts which means less locos stalling on points
Simplicity, effective and functional, roll on part 2. Cheers John.
Hi Johnmany thanks, part two out very soon.
I must say you have great ingenuity in working with materials that cost very little. Cheers Greg
I find I can think outside the box , very relevant in this case! Thanks
LOL. Outside the cardboard box, of course. Send me your address. Would like to send ya some TN lichen. Your friend from across the pond. :-)
Which address, email or residential ?
Hi, will get Doug to email you our address as soon as he gets back from holiday, thanks.
Nice job as usual ,hot glue's amazing stuff but your right,I get through loads,looking forward to the next update
Craig
Hi Craig, it's just quicker than using PVA and I'm not good at patience !
I have two large boxes of which are 60 inch x 15 in each that'll keep me going during the winter months I was going to buy a 200cm x 70cm picnic table which folds in half but the thought of drilling holes for the wiring and gluing track onto cork sheet onto a nice looking table that cost nearly £100 put me off! I now know the cardboards got the vote! it will be lighter to store upright out of harms way of the dangerous upright hoover as well.
Sounds epic
@@BudgetModelRailways congrats to you mate you put the idea into my head thank you very much!!
@@davidcurrie8564 happy to help
@@BudgetModelRailways I went and bought the HM6000 for my class 56 and wagons heres hoping it works.. I had my shunting yard in a living room cupboard but it got semi claustrophobic and trying to fit anything into that cupboard was a job in itself ( i could feel the anger management course coming on when things got a bit tight to operate the DCC etc ) I had the elite controller on a sliding desk keyboard tray underneath the table and the electronic wiring of the points controllers modules were impossible to wire as it required knee work so it had to go! now onward with the cardboard layout and i will remove the table and all the gear and transfer it to the cardboard Idea and just store it on its end that way i can pull it out and sit it on the table i bought, with the HM6000 & HM 6010 modules on the back of the layout wall out of sight etc
Now this is brilliant. Very worthwhile watch and has given me lots of ideas! Thanks chaps
Thanks, glad we could help.
Hi, as promised part three with locos and rolling stock is out in the next few days. Thanks for your support.
Hi, Thank you for sharing this method. I'm in the process of building a model tram layout in OO gauge and have got to the stage of thinking of a light weight baseboard. My trams, paths, road surface, granite setts & buildings are all made on printed card. My track will be card and tin foil with live overhead wire. wanting a baseboard about 5 feet x 2 feet. I may try a 3mm MDF over the boxes as I need a firm support for the poles to support the overhead. regards Paul.
We saw an excellent than layout at the Newhaven MRC show, I was quite tempted
Yes, there is something magical about a model tram running along with an overhead wire.
Mine are OO gauge from Pete Watson, He has some lovely models in card.
They are 4 1/2" in length, 1 1/8" width and 2 1/2" in height.
I want to use a No switch, No electronics, start/stop system.
This means the trams do the switching for each other.
ruclips.net/video/7U31u7Juwlo/видео.html
This is a N gauge layout using this switching system.
Regards Paul.
construction video, ruclips.net/video/6qGsqGSvXgQ/видео.html
All of the videos are great.
Great video tutorial, mate. Very easily constructed. Crack on, mate.
Many thanks.
Hurrah!
Thank-you!
What a jolly good idea . Thanks very much indeed !
Thanks Johnnie, it's been an idea of mine for a while so when I saw these boxes thought I would give it a go.
Another very clever idea Mike. As you may know I do tend to throw money at my model railways but I still find what you do very interesting and would never dream of criticising you. Like you I wonder why anyone would watch a video and then click the dislike button. If you don't like it then don't watch it. Clicking the like button is a positive statement while clicking the dislike is a very negative thing to do. I guess it is easy to dislike something when you can do it anonymously! ..................John
Hi John, I love your layouts, it's horses for courses. We have a serial disliker who just clicks on dislike on most of our videos as soon as they are posted, very strange?!
Don't worry about it Mike. There is nothing to dislike in anything you do. Your ideas are super for showing anyone that model railways do not have to cost the earth. Perfect for young and old alike who don't have much disposable income. Keep up the good work and I for one will keep coming back. ............................John
Thanks John, really appreciate your support. We have nearly 1380 subscribers so are doing something right!
Fabulous ideas
Thanks, we have tried a couple of different ways of using cardboard as its cheap, free, and easily available here.
Another amazing idea wish mine could get built that quick still working on the steps from the upper level to the lower one not eve laid the track properly. Keep up the good work mate.
Many thanks. If only our exhibition layout had been so quick to build!! It's taken six months.
I never thought of doing this... I WILL GET THE PACKAGES!
Hi Colin.
They are widely available, I actually got a load more of a better size yesterday from another garden centre, all for free!
Woah! That is so amazing, I wish garden centers in America would do that! :3
Hi, try your local supermarket or friendly grocery shop, in the UK most have areas fir empty boxes for people to help themselves.
If you go to a cardboard box company, you can buy 50 boxes 6"x 6"x3" for £8. that will build a lot of baseboards though not free.
That is brilliant, what a great idear , I like it .
We have another video showing a similar idea out today
Great ideas and useful too.
Hi everyone. The layout is now finished and part two update is online if you would like to take a look. Thanks. Mike
This is a very practical way of making a baseboard. If you want to do it free you are at the mercy of the available boxes. However, if you willing to pay you can specify the size and quantity you want. Here's just one source:
www.kitepackaging.co.uk/scp/boxes/cardboard-boxes/
You have to buy 50 at a time, but at less than 50p each you can build a lot of boards or share with a lot of people. They're also brand new.
I like this alot! will follow with interest , well done
Many thanks, we have a similar concept planned for a video soon.
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Great work.
Many thanks
Heio... As always.. Nice vid ^^ but try would glue some time.. Woodglue and cardboard or paper sticks like cement.... But it takes some. Drying time
Brilliant stuff! Have you ever experimented with making modular railway layouts from these?
I don't have the room
Wow nice idea what do i need to build this shunting/switching layout from cardboard boxes
Just some empty cardboard boxes and some sheets of thick corrugated card. My electrical appliance store lets me take whatever I want for free and most supermarkets have empty boxes by the till. Craft knife ruler hot .glue gun
Hope you got glue off the laminate. Otherwise yuou will be in trouble with SWMBO. thanks for an inspiring video.
Hi there. We are still in the dog house for the grey paint we got on my wife's white window blinds, nothing we tried got that off! Many thanks for your comment
Gave me an idea for my 2nd level instead of wood.
Hi Nigel, take a look st our other Riselands Hill videos, all three layers are made from cardboard, hope that helps.
I only have one problem you should cut it down in movie maker it's not as hard as you may think overall it's a good vid
Thanks. I'm sure you are right but I will leave the clever editing stuff to Douglas, demarcation etc, just like the old railways!
This is fricking awesome!
On average, how long does the cardboard last like that? And how well would it fair out being moved often?
I had the layout for about a year, sold it and then saw it listed on eBay about six months later, so it survived lots of transport etc. I found it to be pretty robust. Both using corrugated card and empty boxes sandwiched by card seem to work very well and of course are very light,
Budget Model Railways Hm well maybe I’ll give it a try on my rifle case. It’s either I use the cardboard method you guys use or I use foam board. Either one will be glued down in some way, still have to figure out what’s best to glue cardboard to plastic or foam to plastic since the rifle case is made of plastic.
Thanks for the reply and keep up the good work!! 👍🏼
how long and how wide is 1 box?
Sorry I'm not sure now, approx 8cm by 12cm but you can use whatever boxes you can find, I've built three different ones depending on what boxes I can get for free
What kind of sice do i need on the cardboard boxes ?
Well six inches is really the narrowest you can get away with 8 or 9 is better. Then as many as you need to make it 33/39 inches long. Depth does not matter as its bulk not weight.
Was the hot glue free? Seriously, you should film in the light, not at 90 degrees to it.
Railways on a budget
That's what we do, hope you enjoy the videos
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Yes he is one of,our regular subscribers and commenters .
great video,great techniques,i just subscribe to your channel check out some of my videos you might like them thanks for sharing.
Hi, thanks for your support and sub. Have subscribed to your channel, some nice videos there.