It's not worked, has it?
Often, after returning from work in the evening having experienced the operations of the real railway (12 inches to 1 foot scale), I'm not in the frame of mind to pick up with the model variety. That said I have made some some more progress. Sideways.
The space I have is limited and I thought I could build something reasonable in N-gauge on a baseboard approx. 120 x 60 cms - nope. Clearly, expecting to run scale length express trains through rolling countryside wasn't going to happen, as the picture of my first attempt illustrates.
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| Cat swinging cancelled due to lack of space. |
A rethink was required and a possible way forward was suggested by Mrs C. She suggested there may be space elsewhere for bookcases that were currently in the way. I faintly recall there were conditions, but my memory went a bit hazy when she then went on to talk about spending money on furniture from John Lewis.
The next step (apart from a shopping trip) is to sit down with some graph paper originally bought for T & T dungeon design purposes and see what I can do with the extra space. There still won't be room for those expresses, mind.
There are still challenges: there's an inconveniently placed radiator; a window that would be unreachable if the baseboard was too deep and a cat that's going to find this an irresistible place to sun himself (if we ever have summer). But if the navvies could drive a railway through the Cumbrian fells I ought to be able to do something here.
Now, where's my tape-measure?
