After losing my dad a little over a year ago I've had the idea of doing a layout because he and I never got around to it. I suck at creative design. Give me a plan and I can execute. But my creative juices are stuck in a well that is nearly dry. lol
I'm not out to recreate any specific period - this is more a tribute to my dad and my grandfather. One was a huge fan of and collected Wisconsin Central. The other was a huge fan of and collected Milwaukee Road. My immediate thought was recreating something on one side of a layout that resembled the old Milwaukee Road yard with the other a scenic scene maybe trailing off into a city scape. What I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is scaling down the yard enough to not make this layout monstrous. I mean to scale just the yard would end up being something like 30 feet across not to mention the length! As much as I'd love to build a giant layout, the reality is I will probably only be in this house 5 years or so before we sell and upgrade to something else. So I'd rather save my monster build even though I have the room for it until I'm in a house I can comfortably say I'll be there a long while.
Was hoping for ideas... maybe some pictures of similar projects centered around scaling down a giant yard that still resembled the original without being quite as large. Considering I the fact I will be moving in the future I would look to modify my base pieces and track so that I could "easily" take it down in pieces and move it if I chose to. Maybe I'm crazy and I should find a different project? I dont know but this is what has had my interest in my research over the last month or two. Every time I have looked at different avenues I always seem to end up back at this idea.
I'm not out to recreate any specific period - this is more a tribute to my dad and my grandfather. One was a huge fan of and collected Wisconsin Central. The other was a huge fan of and collected Milwaukee Road. My immediate thought was recreating something on one side of a layout that resembled the old Milwaukee Road yard with the other a scenic scene maybe trailing off into a city scape. What I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is scaling down the yard enough to not make this layout monstrous. I mean to scale just the yard would end up being something like 30 feet across not to mention the length! As much as I'd love to build a giant layout, the reality is I will probably only be in this house 5 years or so before we sell and upgrade to something else. So I'd rather save my monster build even though I have the room for it until I'm in a house I can comfortably say I'll be there a long while.
Was hoping for ideas... maybe some pictures of similar projects centered around scaling down a giant yard that still resembled the original without being quite as large. Considering I the fact I will be moving in the future I would look to modify my base pieces and track so that I could "easily" take it down in pieces and move it if I chose to. Maybe I'm crazy and I should find a different project? I dont know but this is what has had my interest in my research over the last month or two. Every time I have looked at different avenues I always seem to end up back at this idea.