OO Gauge British Model Railway In The Loft - Ratton Central - Starting Raised Town Scene - Update 12
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Fabulous progress! The raised street scene in the foreground will look amazing when finished and replicate the way railways punched through the urban areas. I get most of my foam board much the same way you did; here in the States it's frequently used for roadside advertising and political signs and when events or campaigns are over they're free for the taking.
Excellent
I like the new raised area at the front. It completely transforms the look of this part of the layout. Looking forward to the next update.
Ration Central is a fantastic layout. I love watching your videos and I haven’t even got a model railway! One day I might get round to building one.
Thanks. My dad had a layout until I was 5, then he lost interest and I never had any, but did have the idea as a sort of pipe dream. Then when my son was 9 seven years ago he decided he might like one and it all just snowballed from there. At the time I knew zero about trains, real or model!!
I love how manic your updates are!
Lmao!
Great work and ideas really like the by front raised street scene. The rural leading to the Towne areas are a great way to tie them togeather.
The wharf area sounds promising. Maybe an older steam powered pillar Crane to load and unload freight and driage. Ports are very busy places. Especially during the transition era from steam to diesel.
Good to see you have a few more supporters.
Keep up that great work.
Please keep us informed of the loft railway progress.
Hoping to do an update each week
‘I like the idea that you won’t be able to see the trains’
-mr beaching guy ten minutes after getting rid of another branchline
Also looking good
A lot of great ideas you two looking forward to the next video. Looks like the chimney on The Railway Arms has had a few to many.
Lol, it needs some tlc
Some great ideas. I wish you the best of luck with the rest of the modelling. Martin (Thailand)
Thanks. Is there much model railway activity in Thailand?
Glad to see you got things happening on that layout again. Nothing wrong with the smaller ones though. But let's face it; Bigger is just plain better and more fun in the longer run. And that's the whole thing about a bigger layout; It takes longer to build, and there's more running possibilities. Imho.
I just think that most people would want to fill an entire room, the attic or the basement if they had the room and the resources to do so.
I agree
I'm afraid I don't do notifications on CZcams vids, but I have been subscribed for quite a while now. I love the channel and its unique perspective and check my feed very regularly.
Thats great thanks
I like the idea. The station front will look good.
It looks great i like the idea of that raised station and street scene.I got a few kits for Christmas both Metcalfe and Superquick,id only ever made Metcalfe kits,so when i opened the Superquick and started reading the plans,i wondered what the heck was going on!But im on my second Superquick and to be fair they look alright.
The newer ones have much getter instructions. I do find though that like flat pack furniture once you have made a few then you get the hang of them
Again great work guys - the raised area reminds me a lot of Finchley Road station where I used to commute daily. Could you use this as a means of combining overground and underground trains with separate platforms for each? That could give you the start of yet another level😀
its looking great well done
Thanks
If you cover the wood supports with brickwork it'll look like a pillar.
How do. Relatively new subscriber in the U.S. Enjoy the budget oriented modeling. Have been the same since the 1950's.
So a bit on hiding your wooden pillars under your station.
I don't know if or how the wood is held in place however, take the pillar off scene. Distress the wood with rolled up Aluminum Foil, steel brushes, or scouring pads. Paint a base coat of dark gray flat. Then make gashes like stone grout lines.
Here in the U.S. we have a paint product which has sand like elements blended in the paint. Spray or brush your pillar with the Terrain Paint a Light Gray or Stone Red. Accent the gashes with a Black Paint Pen or Marker.
If you don't have Terrain Paint available you can take your choice of Paint medium and mix in slowly a finely sifted sand. This Budget Method will only work with a brush application technique.
So far am enjoying the ride and will stay on board with your build.
~Jim
Great advice thanks Jim and thanks for watching and subscribing
That's really coming along, Mike! For the wooden supports, I would paint them gray, then draw some lines on them to represent concrete blocks. The brick paper idea is good, also, but for the "weight" these are supporting, I think concrete block works better.
It's coming on great 👍
Great video with great ideas.
Thanks
I can really see a nice atmosphere building. I am also very glad I’m not the only one who finds random upper levels peculiar.
-Regards
Ambitious project. Nicely done.
Thanks, it's proving a little too ambitious at the moment lol
@@BudgetModelRailways Ah! Mission creep, I know it all to well from a former life. Hang in there and keep enjoying.
This is amazing. The 3D effect of everything in front + backscenes is fantastic. Now that you've got the upper level in, I can really picture a nice sweeping road through a street to the station. Your station reminds me of Llangollen railway station.
All other progress looking great too. I really like the way you've used the eaves/beams for a wood and country lane scene. 👍 GWR
Thanks, I was very pleased with the backbench. The Llangollen railway is on my must see list
@@BudgetModelRailways it's 100% worth it. A fantastic bunch of friendly staff, lovely railway, lovely engines, and just in the perfect place 👍. I haven't been for a couple of years, and since then, they've completed building an entire station at Corwen! Definitely recommended. GWR
didn't expect That 👌 but ℹ like it
That'll work nicely !
This was an amazing vid to watch, so many ideas packed together and perfectly illustrating your way of thinking about the layout. I'd love to see more in the same vein.
Thanks, quite a few previous videos to search through
@@BudgetModelRailways I'm actually familiar with most of your vids, but this one somehow jumped out to me. Watching it gave me a strong sense of "yes, I think I could do this too", as if everything you've said before somehow fitted into place and I thought "so that's how you do this." I've always envied your skills but regularly found it difficult to see how you did what you did. With this vid, it all clicked.
Sometimes I'm not sure how I do things?! Generally I just look at things until a solution comes too me, and we get some great suggestions as well. I also find looking at and reading railway books a great help, until 7 years ago I knew literally nothing about railways real or model, I had no interest at all. Douglas wanted a model railway so to support him I sold my military and aviation models, and then got hooked!
Sometimes I'm not sure how I do things?! Generally I just look at things until a solution comes too me, and we get some great suggestions as well. I also find looking at and reading railway books a great help, until 7 years ago I knew literally nothing about railways real or model, I had no interest at all. Douglas wanted a model railway so to support him I sold my military and aviation models, and then got hooked!
@@BudgetModelRailways Thank you so much for replying a second time. I know it takes a lot of time. I've already taken on-board many of your suggestions over the years and bought some of the books you recommended. I recently bought miniature building construction by John Ahern which you highly recommended and it's a treasure. I've only read the first chapter but it's clear from the start that he knew what he was doing, a real expert, so even just for that, thank you very much!
i got excited when i saw this video.
Great
like your idea and will keep an eye on this future build I got more of your old vids to watch but fab content
Thanks for watching
Is hiding the support behind a tunnel entrance an idea? You could use dark red sandpaper for the inside of the tunnel
Thats pretty much the plan but probably using brick paper or Brown card
For the bit of wood beneath the high level station that needs hiding, I reckon that you could quite feasibly wrap it in brick paper and have it as a tunnel/station support.
Good idea thanks
nice one folks.jpj
Really like how you are using the depth under the eaves, that will look very good. Is the little green garage a kit?
The one in the back corner is a superquick kit
I really love your ideas on street scenes. As you said, lots of railways were, and still are, set into dense urban settings, and that is something interesting to do some evocation of this on your layout.
Anyway, just a personal taste hint, purely indicative : in my opinion, one thing that would be great with your elevated station scene, could be to not have a continuous row of houses in front of the tracks cutting. You can put some realistic discontinuations in the house row, like a public garden, a small place, or a parking lot, to give a glimpse of vision on the track below at interesting angles, permitting to see the station below, but not at one and in its entirety. It could be very interesting, visually. I let you see if my idea have some interest for you.
Sounds interesting
Hope you got planning permission for all this....lol...wonderful
Nice video
I can see this will be amazing when it is finished.Remember to have access to hidden track if you need it.
Thats very kind thanks
love the trees :) would be helpful if you put the links to your trees, and items you bought... ty for the video
They come from various suppliers on eBay, link would be pointless as the suppliers change regularly, just search model railway trees on ebay
Loving your approach to this build and the solutions that you have developed. I'm curious if it is possible to bring those upper level lines closer together which would allow more space for scenic elements.
Not much wriggle room sadly
Great ideas all round. Regarding the supporting legs - why not just paint them black and visually they'll disappear?
Nice idea
@@BudgetModelRailways I have a tin of blackboard paint I've had for years. I painted my roof trusses over my layout and they are way less obvious. In fact I had to put some foam around a couple of them where I kept hitting my head! So, it's a partially good idea. Cheers
We have a beam like that as well!
Underneath you can set up one or two staging rails.
With the new vision how difficult is it to reach across to the rear of the layout? It looks like it could be a bit of a stretch once the buildings are permanently in place.
Its not too bad, but thanks
I also have a question: With the road at the back, would you get away with a narrow road there (say, narrower than would fit a car), and still get the impression of a normal road, because people won't actually look down the length of the road?
Correct. But it will be wide enough to get one car on giving the impression of a normal width road
Like Charlie Chadwick, you are always telling us what you going to do. Charlie runs into problems at every turn. I hope you have more luck.
Hey thats not fair,you cant compare those two as their building techniques are so different,and Charlie spends a small fortune and Mike and Doug do not.
I had also built a layer and showed the finished result of the piece under the eaves. I was just showing what we plan to do, next time we will have done some of it.
@@michaeldavies9600 Why is it not fair. I wasn't comparing them. They both have my respect. But why not get a piece of paper and plan in advance.
@@daveday5507 Fair enough,i dont know but im the same and make it up as i go along ;)
My head doesn't work that way, I imagine and plan better when I can see it in 3d. It does mean I change things ive already built sometimes but I also like seeing things evolve. You are right planning would be better for most people, it just doesn't work for me, I'm a practical pragmatic type, lol