I wish I’d gone to exhibitions and got some idea of exactly what I wanted first as I had no clue. My Mrs gets a bit fed up with the constant silliness 😂😂🤷🏻♂️
Really good video Dave, not overloaded with detail but proper informative. Great to see how you’ve put some of the buildings and scenery together and how you’ve chopped and changed your layout.
Hiya Dave, nice update mate, your thought process on the evolution of the layout is second to none. It's great looking at how someone has gone about achieving what they show, but its only shown after all the hair pulling and hot glue gun scalds that occur. Keep the updates and banter coming. All the best, Ian.
Oh no! You’d hate my layout then 😂 Three loops to just sit & watch trains go by!!! Hidden fiddle yard & storage sidings behind the backscenes….. I guess we’re all different, living alongside the WCML most of my time I like seeing the trains speed past💨💨💨 I must admit it’s a bit boring these days passenger wise, but as a kid all the BR blue locos made life more interesting motive wise. One day I will make a decent sized yard for shunting, I’ve just started a small O gauge layout for just that👍 Keep doing what you’re doing because it’s good to have a laugh rather than counting rivets 🤣 All the best John b🥸
Haha yes but I bet you can use your behind the backscenes bits - I’d have to take roof tiles off my house and get of the roof to see mine 😂 I needed to modify it all for LADDERMAN to get a job as I look after him like a son 😁
@@doubleodave - well to be honest it’s a bugger to get to my fiddle yard to clean the track, it used to be accessible from both ends, but the curved Peco set track points aren’t very good & suffer loads of derailments (which I had at both ends of the yard) - I’ve now turned the yard into effectively long sidings accessible from one end only….now I have to reverse trains in & out which isn’t brilliant, but at least the sidings can now accommodate longer trains….we live & learn.🤷 As for O gauge I got a Dapol 08 sound fitted off their website for £200 BARGIN! At that price I couldn’t say no! But & it’s a BIG BUT things like the points are expensive at around £70 a pop, so don’t expect a massive shunting layout here!
Great to hear the start of it all and how it came about. Often the best ideas start as nothing more than you doing something and then a friend saying 'you should put that up on YT.' So glad that you did as totally enjoy your videos. We all start somewhere and like you I have no doubt that I will change mine the moment it gets anywhere near finished.
Hi Dave, Nice video, have often wondered what your full layout plan looked like... and now we know.. liked the story behind the layout change and totally understand why you change it, looks a lot better now.
Brilliant to see the evolution of your thought process here Dave, and I think you’ve built the layout you didn’t even know you wanted at the start now. Will say, I enjoyed the canyon, I like wilderness but for your content this is far better suited now. Great walkthrough 😎 Hylt
And it unfolds. The beauty of modelling. All change for Barnchester.. Barnchester!!??, what happened to warrik? Ooih keep up with the times... That were last week.. Nice and direct Video Dave. Evolution is a wonderful thing.
This is fascinating Dave. I won’t be the only one who has wondered about the evolution of your layout, so it is good to see and hear about the evolution. Very impressed by your ability to make buildings out of old boxes. My wife keeps asking me why I have a load of empty boxes by my side of the bed! Little does she know…… Nice one again pal.
Good stuff as ever and great to see the before and after shots. I’m thinking the same way as you planning my new layout, big yard for shunting and a separate high level depot to move locos round. Looking forward to the crazy next time and to see what depot supervisor is upto 😂
Thanks for this one, I'm currently at the same point that you were at the beginning - watching the same videos, researching, learning... I'm also experimenting with Anyrail, and as you recommend here, having a good think about what I could do in the room I have in mind!
Top tip… whatever you do if there’s stretching involved to get to the back - put some backscenes in first! They transform the layout and are a nightmare to retrofit, a proper nightmare!
Great Video !! At least you built something.... I have a pile of stuff waiting for a proper attempt at a plan..... Also rate the Anyrail and SCARM software.
Hi Dave, just liked and subbed, really impressive layout, I'm just about to start my own layout after about a year and a half without one because we moved house,(twice!), I've been a railway modeller for years now, never got it right yet, anyway, thanks for sharing, take care, all the best from Scotland, Stephen.
i know what you mean with the amount of plans. I model in P4 so i used Templot to design my layout as i don't use commercial track and i have made hundreds of different mods to this current design. When finished i could print a plan directly out on paper as i'm lucky to have a 1200mm wide printer, but saying that i actually had my plan directly printed to the baseboard, which was originally going to be mdf, but eventually i went for Dibond for lightness and durability.
Hornby have a bizarre obsession with selling this idea that a "good" layout involves cramming as many loops as possible into a small space, and watching trains go round and round until you are bored out of your mind. That's their decades-long idea of what makes a great model railway. I'm currently building a finescale n gauge layout in my 8x10 garden shed that only has connected 2 loops, but multiple shunting areas (industries, gas, scrapworks etc) that I have no doubt will give me decades of pleasure. It's taking longer just to lay the track than it would take any sane person to be unutterably bored with Hornby's absurd Track Mat layout.
Bloody love your layout 👍
Cheers Bob 👍👍
Cheers, very informative!
Cheers pal 👍
An elegant bit of mechanics the old double slip, nicely shot as well. That set of points too...
Wish they weren’t £50 each though 😂
I’m going to change my layout soon and it is hard making a decision what to do enjoy your Humour Dave 😂
I wish I’d gone to exhibitions and got some idea of exactly what I wanted first as I had no clue.
My Mrs gets a bit fed up with the constant silliness 😂😂🤷🏻♂️
Oh, they're not mistakes mate, it's a learning process and quite normal for all of us.
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Really good video Dave, not overloaded with detail but proper informative. Great to see how you’ve put some of the buildings and scenery together and how you’ve chopped and changed your layout.
Cheers Steve, I wish I’d recorded more stuff now, back in the day!
Nice one Dave.
‘Liberty Junction origins’ part 1.
Just another mellow to balance out the madness 😁
I’ve always liked those buildings so a “how to build video” in Double O Dave style would be a great watch.
Noted! I’ll stick it on the to do one day list 👍👍
Nice build with them buildings.
Cheers, not a bad little forgery of the other one I saw online 🤭
Hiya Dave, nice update mate, your thought process on the evolution of the layout is second to none.
It's great looking at how someone has gone about achieving what they show, but its only shown after all the hair pulling and hot glue gun scalds that occur.
Keep the updates and banter coming. All the best, Ian.
Cheers Ian, thanks for taking the time to comment :)
Oh no! You’d hate my layout then 😂
Three loops to just sit & watch trains go by!!!
Hidden fiddle yard & storage sidings behind the backscenes…..
I guess we’re all different, living alongside the WCML most of my time I like seeing the trains speed past💨💨💨
I must admit it’s a bit boring these days passenger wise, but as a kid all the BR blue locos made life more interesting motive wise.
One day I will make a decent sized yard for shunting, I’ve just started a small O gauge layout for just that👍
Keep doing what you’re doing because it’s good to have a laugh rather than counting rivets 🤣
All the best John b🥸
Haha yes but I bet you can use your behind the backscenes bits - I’d have to take roof tiles off my house and get of the roof to see mine 😂
I needed to modify it all for LADDERMAN to get a job as I look after him like a son 😁
Ps I’d love a bit of O gauge that’ll be retirement when I have that kind of money 😂
@@doubleodave - well to be honest it’s a bugger to get to my fiddle yard to clean the track, it used to be accessible from both ends, but the curved Peco set track points aren’t very good & suffer loads of derailments (which I had at both ends of the yard) - I’ve now turned the yard into effectively long sidings accessible from one end only….now I have to reverse trains in & out which isn’t brilliant, but at least the sidings can now accommodate longer trains….we live & learn.🤷
As for O gauge I got a Dapol 08 sound fitted off their website for £200 BARGIN!
At that price I couldn’t say no! But & it’s a BIG BUT things like the points are expensive at around £70 a pop, so don’t expect a massive shunting layout here!
Good skills - buildings are spot on!
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The cutting is a nice scenic section, adds a lot of interest - let's have some more shunting auld lad!
Cheers Horse 👍
Great to hear the start of it all and how it came about. Often the best ideas start as nothing more than you doing something and then a friend saying 'you should put that up on YT.' So glad that you did as totally enjoy your videos. We all start somewhere and like you I have no doubt that I will change mine the moment it gets anywhere near finished.
Cheers CJ 👍
Great video Dave, interesting to see the early development of your layout...cheers James 🙂👍
Cheers James 👍
Hi Dave, Nice video, have often wondered what your full layout plan looked like... and now we know.. liked the story behind the layout change and totally understand why you change it, looks a lot better now.
Cheers Karl, it would have been good if you could stand at the ends and get those views but 👎 only phone could fit there.
Love the addictive packaging of Scene Craft! You'll be giving Bachmann ideas!
Excellent vid as always!
Thanks Michael, hopefully they’ll give me a cut of the profits 😁
Brilliant to see the evolution of your thought process here Dave, and I think you’ve built the layout you didn’t even know you wanted at the start now. Will say, I enjoyed the canyon, I like wilderness but for your content this is far better suited now. Great walkthrough 😎
Hylt
Cheers Hylt, yeah I did like that scenery, but if I didn’t have the new stuff there’d be no lights for Ladder man not to climb 😆
Looks like a very playable layout Dave as my granddaughter tells me it’s got be fun and playable and a bit mad 😊 regards Fred
Yep! 100%
And it unfolds. The beauty of modelling. All change for Barnchester.. Barnchester!!??, what happened to warrik? Ooih keep up with the times... That were last week.. Nice and direct Video Dave. Evolution is a wonderful thing.
👍👍 two months and it reckons I didn’t reply - I blame the 🛸
This is fascinating Dave. I won’t be the only one who has wondered about the evolution of your layout, so it is good to see and hear about the evolution. Very impressed by your ability to make buildings out of old boxes. My wife keeps asking me why I have a load of empty boxes by my side of the bed! Little does she know…… Nice one again pal.
Cheers D 👍
Good stuff as ever and great to see the before and after shots. I’m thinking the same way as you planning my new layout, big yard for shunting and a separate high level depot to move locos round.
Looking forward to the crazy next time and to see what depot supervisor is upto 😂
Sounds mint that pal 👍
I enjoy watching your video mate. Nice to see how you started and worked on your layout. 👍👍👍
Cheers James
It's tough to get what you really want without finding out what doesn't work for you first. You gotta find what floats yer boat lol.
Exactly 👍
Thanks for this one, I'm currently at the same point that you were at the beginning - watching the same videos, researching, learning... I'm also experimenting with Anyrail, and as you recommend here, having a good think about what I could do in the room I have in mind!
Top tip… whatever you do if there’s stretching involved to get to the back - put some backscenes in first! They transform the layout and are a nightmare to retrofit, a proper nightmare!
Thanks good tip!
I thought you was keeping your family warm!
😂😂😂
Great Video !!
At least you built something.... I have a pile of stuff waiting for a proper attempt at a plan..... Also rate the Anyrail and SCARM software.
Yeah scarms good two either are good 👍
Hi Dave, just liked and subbed, really impressive layout, I'm just about to start my own layout after about a year and a half without one because we moved house,(twice!), I've been a railway modeller for years now, never got it right yet, anyway, thanks for sharing, take care, all the best from Scotland, Stephen.
Cheers Stephen, appreciate the comment and thanks for the sub!
i know what you mean with the amount of plans. I model in P4 so i used Templot to design my layout as i don't use commercial track and i have made hundreds of different mods to this current design. When finished i could print a plan directly out on paper as i'm lucky to have a 1200mm wide printer, but saying that i actually had my plan directly printed to the baseboard, which was originally going to be mdf, but eventually i went for Dibond for lightness and durability.
👍
Hornby have a bizarre obsession with selling this idea that a "good" layout involves cramming as many loops as possible into a small space, and watching trains go round and round until you are bored out of your mind. That's their decades-long idea of what makes a great model railway.
I'm currently building a finescale n gauge layout in my 8x10 garden shed that only has connected 2 loops, but multiple shunting areas (industries, gas, scrapworks etc) that I have no doubt will give me decades of pleasure. It's taking longer just to lay the track than it would take any sane person to be unutterably bored with Hornby's absurd Track Mat layout.
Sound that that’s gonna be amazing 👍👍👍