Penobscot St. Spur - Layout Mockup
A few days ago, I made a mock up of my planned Penobscot Street Spur layout to test how the vertical elememts of the track plan, such as the buildings and hills, would look.
I made the mockup from a scrap of cardboard and some masking tape. The masking tape on the mockup represents roads, while the small pieces of cardboard represent buildings.
While it's not very pretty or well done, I think that the mockup helps show that the buildings and the hill covering the enterance to staging work together on the layout. From the mockup, I think that the number of buildings I designed into the layout are enough to give the impression that the layoit depicts an active industrial area, while still giving the layout space to breeth, so to speak.
At the moment, this is about all the active model railroading that I can do, since my workbench is currently packed away. I'm hoping, though, that I can return to building things soon, but until then, not much will be happening on this blog.
I made the mockup from a scrap of cardboard and some masking tape. The masking tape on the mockup represents roads, while the small pieces of cardboard represent buildings.
While it's not very pretty or well done, I think that the mockup helps show that the buildings and the hill covering the enterance to staging work together on the layout. From the mockup, I think that the number of buildings I designed into the layout are enough to give the impression that the layoit depicts an active industrial area, while still giving the layout space to breeth, so to speak.
At the moment, this is about all the active model railroading that I can do, since my workbench is currently packed away. I'm hoping, though, that I can return to building things soon, but until then, not much will be happening on this blog.
Hi Sam,
ReplyDeleteI like what you have got going there! Very interesting. Should be a fun and very achievable layout. Thanks for taking the time to document it so that we can follow along. I will look in with much interest.
Take Care
Rick
Fillmore Avenue Roundhouse
Rick,
DeleteThanks for the compliment about the layout design. It will be fun to get construction on it started soon.
-Sam
Sam,
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, shared it with some friends over the weekend, and they were inspired to try some variations.
Simon
Simon,
DeleteI'm glad that your friends found my layout design helpful.
-Sam
Nothing beats a mockup to test ideas. As you said, it's a quick and dirty trick to see if structure density and topography works according to the 2D ideas. I often found qualities were I expected none on paper. Keep up your good work!
DeleteMatt