what are people doing on their layout right now

[Portpatrick]

What am I doing?  Experimenting with weathering - mostly locos at present.  trying various approaches.

[4x2]

Drawing the dotted line which i'm gonna cut 18 inches off in the morning... Don't panic - my layout is too big for the car !

[Fratton]

[Tank]

Lovely bit of building there.  And the addition of graffiti looks good.

[4x2]

Lovely bit of building there.  And the addition of graffiti looks good.

couldn't agree more ! Nicely done 

[Newportnobby]

Great model with excellent detailing

[Fratton]

Thankyou for the kind replies, the portal I made is a scalescenes one with optional graphitti on the top,,, I gave it a few coats of artists spray varnish today and plonked it in place to see how it looked,,,,

[Newportnobby]

Still staring at the damned thing and wondering whether my track plan is the best I can come up with in a small space

[4x2]

Still staring at the damned thing and wondering whether my track plan is the best I can come up with in a small space

If you're stuck, show us the plan - many heads are better than one ! 

[Newportnobby]

Still staring at the damned thing and wondering whether my track plan is the best I can come up with in a small space

If you're stuck, show us the plan - many heads are better than one ! 

The plan is scattered all over the forum, but if you look in Layout Planning - The Planned layout of Newport Nobby it will give you an idea of what I'm after in more detail than the plan below which is my poor attempt at Scarm.

[Tank]

Wow, you've done well with that!  Plenty of tracks to switch diesels.

[OwL]

Mrs OwL is at work all day tomorrow. Im off down local model shop to buy new ballast & pva glue. Tomorrow ballasting commences.... pictures to follow (if i dont glue my fingers together!)

[Dock Shunter]

Mrs OwL is at work all day tomorrow. Im off down local model shop to buy new ballast & pva glue. Tomorrow ballasting commences.... pictures to follow (if i dont glue my fingers together!)

My Brother is going to Altrincham tomorrow so i will go with him and pop into Walton's for some
bits and bobs.......will probably end up buying a loco or some wagons that i have been telling myself all
week i can't afford....... ..What the hell..... it's only money....and there's always Pot Noodles.......

[OwL]

Spent £44 quid today on ballast, ballast machine, lamposts, pva glue, plasticard, metal paving, cleaning pads, gaugemaster sticky road,

will be ballasting later this afternoon. Pictures soon when i get my laptop back (its off for repair and im using my brothers laptop at moment)

[4x2]

Still staring at the damned thing and wondering whether my track plan is the best I can come up with in a small space

If you're stuck, show us the plan - many heads are better than one ! 

The plan is scattered all over the forum, but if you look in Layout Planning - The Planned layout of Newport Nobby it will give you an idea of what I'm after in more detail than the plan below which is my poor attempt at Scarm.

Looks good - lots of track ! Only thing i'd suggest is lifting the smallest circuit up as a high level branch line (maybe moving it to one corner), but keep the busy yard low level and join it up with the two main curcuits - I did read you were not keen on embankments/cuttings etc, but I think it would add more dimension to the layout if you know what I mean...