My First N-Scale Layout (roughly 7' x 2.5') Kato, DCC, Town Lighting
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This was my Covid project. I knew absolutely nothing about building a model railroad when I started. It was a great challenge. Also, here is the link to my other video, where I solved the three-way light signal manual bypass for the Kato N-Scale light. • Kato N Scale 3-Color A...
Fantastic! You have accomplished what a lot of us would like to do. Especially like the town. The hills, tunnels, greenery, etc…just great. Congrats.
Such a lot in such a small space....like the modelling, simple oval and figure 8 - fantastic
Well done! You don't have to be a "pro" to enjoy model railroading and for a small layout, that is some superb detail! Nice job!!!
A great layout for the N-Scale trains. It came out amazing, and did not consume the entire room. O-Scale would be a load of fun, as well, but take up way more room and $$. Hoping to one day do the same with N-Scale trains and layout. Thanks for sharing.
For such a small layout you have given it some amazing depth and realism. I appreciate your hard work on this really nice project!
Looks like the sort of little town a Stephen King novel would be based on. The peopleless factor just ramps up the spooky value
Very good point!
Leokim your here?
Who the hell is steven king
@@larry2132 ruler of the British Empire.
If you want true Stephen King spooky, check out the town of Diablo next to Diablo Lake he mentioned.
Thats an absolutely fantastic layout. For me the best part is the lighting especially in the town......really makes such a difference 👏👏
There is quite a bit I want to put into this comment, all positive, but I will make it as condensed as practical. When I was in my pre to mid-teens, I was into N-scale railroading. Throughout those years I acquired a lot of track, N-scale prefabricated or self-build buildings, a few locomotives, and numerous freight cars (in particular, a livestock car that I bought at a R.R. hobby shop in St. Louis Union Station and showcased on a RUclips 'short.')
However, because my dad was USAF, I couldn't build an elaborate/fixed layout due to having to relocate at any given time. In recent years, though, my brother and I have been building an elaborate, fixed slot-car track which utilizes track from two "Carrera Go" sets. We went with the slot-car track just because of the dual player/competition aspect. The resulting layout includes a loop, wall climb, a few "knock-out" points and what-not, which is all a lot of fun to race on. Aside from the different track and vehicles used, similarly we've been creating an environment for the racetrack to exist. All the framing to hold the track steady and properly elevated has been done, and it runs great, but now we've had to remove the track as we begin to work on creating the landscape under and around the track. We're doing a southwest desert scheme as to being the areas we were born and have lived most during our adult lives, plus we love the wild west ghost town idea to put into our layout. I'll cut the comment off here. Hope it's understood that I typed all this to express my appreciation for the work put into the video featured N-scale RR scenic layout that was presented. Your layout really looks great. Also, nice library, a lot bigger/more content than mine. Finally, got to give props on your Star Wars helmets! I have my own extensive Star Wars collection, but no helmets..., however, I do have a Chewbacca, sound-equipped, plastic facemask. lol.
Colourful scenery...with added people, vehicles & advertising signs will come to life...
It Looks So Good you will Build Larger Later in Life. You are Gonna Be Proud you Did it.
Wow! Most excellent job! For your first layout, from the beginning you sounded timid to start but I can hear the confidence build by the end. You really jumped off the deep end and succeeded very well.
I rarely reply to comments on YT, but I had to respond to yours. You are spot on! I delayed doing a layout for years because I didn't think I had the skills to do it. When I started, I felt over my head at every turn. Then, finally, one day, I felt like I knew what I was doing. It was still clumsy but actionable. But eventually, I felt like I moved from an apprentice of the hobby to a contributor to the hobby. Thank you for your insight.
Looks great! Consistent and complete. Love seeing that passenger train doing it’s thing!
You did a good job. Iot looks real nice,looks as good as some of the professionals.
Awesome set up!! I’m just starting up my first n scale layout, thanks for the inspiration!!
You did a great job and it wants me to dive in.
When I got Involved in N Scale I was happy Then I Gotten My Wife Into it I went Bachmann She Went Kato All N All When we Get Done with Our Layouts we Will Be Happy.
AWESOME, EXCELLENT and PERFECT!!!!! Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Just amazing, this is so impressive, great job! 🎉
Looks cool!
This is a lovely layout! Good for you!!!
Really nice layout. 👍
Really cool! Although, I'm pretty sure this is essentially the Scenic Ridge layout with an added bridge and a missing siding
Fantastic
Very nice job. Surprised that you bothered with the Kato signal and didn't just buy a Model Power or other direct wired signal. Any reason why you didn't have a depot for your passenger trains?
Great job, looks awesome! you have achieved your goal by the looks of things? I was also taken away by the storm troopers mask you have? I am a big star wars fan as well, nice library?
Your Santa Fe unit is in the fouling zone per FRA. back it up a little bit
Very nice but… shoukdn’t be there a station somewhere?
Nice layout. Did you use a published track and wiring plan?
The house on the hill, the tent and the baseball field are great details I think are great.
When I was a little kid many decades ago, model railroading was all about the fanciful little scenes individual toy stores could dream up… that’s what I fell in love with. Then in the seventies everything went Prototypical… seems like the progression has been more expensive… mor technically challenging… more more more…
Your layout takes me back to tge toy store window at Christmas. Thank you. The quality of your scene is excellent. If tgat was in my house I’d be sitting there imagining life in the town, maybe every night.
Superb! Hard to believe it was your very first one. Nothing could be improved on. You are a very talented craftsman and artist.
Thank you so much for this. You don't need to be self deprecating. The layout is really awesome and inspiring to me personally to get on with building my own n-guage layout (also DCC). You should be really proud of what you learnt and produced. Something special to enjoy and a family legacy to pass on. Well done!
Wonderful accomplishment. You have created a work of art by anyone standard.
Looks great!
As some one getting back into trains and N scale in the PNW it was really cool to see all you captured!!!!! Great job!!!!
Am down sizing to N scale next yr with a plan very close to yours going to be a bit bigger and plan to do a yard where your shops are ,you have done a pretty neat job on this railroad so yeah plan to run 3 at a time with a loop running round the outside will double track the no 8 section of track in the centre just going DC on this 1 so hope to start early next yr see how it goes.
That's a very nice layout. Love the track plan and scenery. I have a small 3 x 7 foot N scale layout. Keep up the good work. 👍🚂🚃🚃
Amazing layout! Giving me a lot of ideas for my first n scale build. Just an observation but I'm guessing you used the kato light kit for the silver zephyr? It looks like you may have followed the directions which are unfortunately, wrong. The way they instruct you to install the diffuser plate is actually backwards which makes the lighting much more concentrated by the led. I flipped them on mine and it made the lighting much more even throughout the coaches!
Nice job on N scale layout, well done. I lived in Woodenville in the 1970's and went to Diablo Lake every chance I got during summer months. Stayed at resort (across the dam) or at campground across the lake. I had a Zodiak boat and when staying at campground would run boat over to the resort for dinner. They had a fantastic restaurant on the lake. I'm building a N scale layout now myself. Any way we can "chat"? Take care.
It's personal to you and that's what's important, plus it looks Great! Love the house and camp site on the hill, the waterfalls and lake too! Well done!
You did a phenomenal job. I am doing a similar layout for HO Scale. I grew up in Montreal Canada so my town will be little different. I am actually creating a ski hill in the tunnel area.
Excellent layout. Gives me great inspiration that I can do a smaller layout like this.
The details make the diiference. These are works of art. It can also be extended with extra boards and linking track etc.
Wow! You took me back to the early 70's. I had a similar layout except I had one more oval on the outside with wider radius track for a steam locomotive. My father bought me a hollow core door to put the layout on. It was a learning experience with wiring. In my Junior or Senior year, I packed the track and cars away and still have them. After I graduated High School I got a steady job in a factory for 5 years and went from electrical apprentice to industrial electrician. Then, off to a railroad for almost 40 years. I still have all of my N Gauge rolling stock, transformers, switches, buildings, and other things. One day at a hobby shop many decades ago, they were closing out Aurora N Gauge cars and locomotives for pennies. I bought it all and just stored it in boxes. I still have it. After watching several inspiring RUclips videos including yours, I am sooooo tempted to pick up a 4X8 sheet of plywood.
Love your story. You should totally go for it. I think it's awesome you still have all your original stuff.
Hello
Have you started building yet?
LOL your only layout we all have said that.. Looks very good..
Looks great! I've always wanted to build an N-Scale layout and this just keeps inspiring me to do it 😂 Thank you for sharing your progress!
You did a great job! Love the layout and all your vegetation! Have been thinking of building an N gauge layout and this has given me inspiration to start! You could have used DC as your other locos would be isolated by the closed points and only activated once the points are thrown, however DCC gives you so much more control😅Well done.👍🇦🇺😎
People really add realism and feel some towns people and a guy in the fishing boat really add reality people are a big part of scenery also many dont do this but most buildings never have every single window lit in real life - some lit and some unlit is more like the real thing - but im nit picking its a beautiful N guage layout it takes a lot of patience and perserverance to finish to this degree.
I can always respect the amazing craftmanship and attention to detail in one of these model builds, a job well done!
You DEFINITELY have mad skills, sir. It’s one the best I have ever seen. Are you sure you aren’t a pro at this already? Looks like a pro did it.
I love this! Actually looks professional as well as full of personality, realism and love. A wonderful piece of kinetic art I'd think anybody could appreciate inheriting. Putting so much of yourself into it truly makes it an heirloom.
AWESOME. great job as a new comer to the hobby. Its an ENDLESS endevor. Looks good. Also nice man cave, you should show it off too.
good golly miss molly you did a great job there. very very nicely done.
With a name like Sifodyas, I think I knew you were gonna be a SW nut! Which is awesome!
And what a fantastic model!
I might prototype my n scale layout with this one, it's the perfect size, just enough track, turns, elevation, tunnels, lighting. This is everything a train modeler wants in a small package. I may build a game table with (4) glass panels on the top to view the trains while the top is on.
I’m looking to make my first layout in HO but I always look at N scale for inspiration because they’re for some reason just so pleasant to watch run
(PS, you were right it’s pronounced like in)
Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well, young Skywalker... 😘
great layout, loved the baseball field.
Your first pronunciation of lichen was right, the ch is hard like k
just an idea but something you could have done was lay a track down the middle of the street like La Grange Kentucky then you could have positioned an SUV blocking the train.
😎👍 Folded dogbone layouts are visually appealing over bland ovals.
After watching this video, you kicked off my passion for N Gauge again. I had loads of track and locos in storage and got them all out. Building my own little layout now. I'm kind of stealing your idea for the layout.
Well done man. So cool and excellent work. Would be so cool to get a small camera on the train and get that first person point of view going around the track.
The best thing you did was go with KATO Track for N SCALE, VERY VERY Reliable. Beautiful Job.
It's your world make it the way you want. Nice layout.
AATW
Nice video, nice train🛤🚂👍👍.
Best regards Gert
Agree with comments on how well the layout looks. My only suggestion would be that you not run those long passenger cars. The curves are too tight.
Great little layout. Mine started as a door layout and ended up being 7'4" x 4'. lol Mine is all DCC and purchased special switched so I could use DCC on the Kato switches as well. Mine is also my first and will be my only layout. It has changed a bit over the years but the track design hasn't changed only my bus route in the city.
I wish my first layout looked this great... really cam together: congrats...
When not in use or on show keep it covered as dust will fade everything. Great video thanks
Fantastic layout! Im trying to put my own together and want to do a similar figure 8 to you. Any chance you can release the track plans?
Fantastic job, Just discovered your layout. Such detail and really looks awesome.
Looks great. I would like to add that running a transition era train like a GP-7 with 40' rolling stock would look awesome with the radius curves you have. Cheers, mate.
Brilliant fun.. one of the most enjoyable train videos on RUclips... a great watch. And you're definitely better than you think
fkn awesome , great job i hope my first layout looks that good
This is really cool, congrats. I'm looking to do the same.
Hi, Very cool work from you!👍
My First N-Scale Layout back in early 90's was made on a hollow core door that you could run all of the wiring in the core with access holes cut underneath.
Congratulations, your layout is awesome.
Great layout 👍
I would be really proud of that for a first layout. Excellent work!
I currently live in Kitsap county and I love how this really feels like the pnw.
Very nice! Totally agree with you on DCC.
If you can do that on your first try, you probably should attempt a bigger one someday. Well done. Hopefully who ever winds up with it in the future will appreciate all the passion and meaning that went into it.
Nice layout you should be may I say proud of it
Wow, this is a great layout! That night shot of it was really pretty too
Simply Wonderful ⛄🎄⛄👌
This is awesome. I am blown away that this is your first layout. I guess you are a natural. Excellent! Someday, I give my own layout a shot.
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
This is not a hobby I have ever tried, but I stumbled across your video out of curiosity. I enjoy looking at your layout. I like the track elevation in-cooperated into the mountain. There is something I like about the lit up town with no cars/people also. You seemed to make the most out of the small area you had to work with. You may want to consider making (if you haven’t already) a video on how you made the different bushes in detail, i’m sure people are always looking for a cheaper alternative to a hobby store. Nice work, looks like it was fun.
Very cool! Love the baseball field.
Great job. Thank you, Covid.
Beautifully done. Wish I had one, this is a work of 3 d art
Thanks for putting this out. I got a lot from it.
Dude this looks incredible, especially for a first layout. The incredible layouts we may see online are probably collaborated but you did this all on your own so that's amazing. I know from experience that figuring things out and do projects like this on your own, takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of money gone to trial and error etc. Basically, a lot of hard work! I doubt this will be your only layout though ;).
You nailed it!
Looks absolutely fantastic. I really enjoyed your whole video.
For a first project this turned out really well. It runs great and the whole display looks spectacular.
Not bad for a first timer. Excellent.
Dude. I had no idea. I love what you’ve done! Awesome job! Didn’t you know I’m a hobby guy? I was big into N scale as a kid and have been building models and dioramas my whole life. Let’s go!
Nice job 👍
Wow that's looks great!
As a fellow PNW railroader I think you nailed the ambiance. Wonderful little layout, well done!
A very nice video and layout. I have plans to expand my own HO scale layout, though I don't believe mine will be quite as detailed as this.