Due to unforeseen circumstances I am selling up all my N gauge stuff, just to let you know its not down to illness so everything is fine on that front, I have quite a lot to sell so I will offer it up on this forum first as you have all been good to me.
My Layout is computer controlled so plenty of Digitrax stuff for grabs.
Lots of Kato Points and Track and Kato Controller.
I shall start posting bits at a time in the next week coming.
Many thanks to all who have helped me over the years I truly appreciated your help.
Sorry to see you go, Geoff. Come back soon!
Sorry to see you go.
Hope all is OK.
Well at least your departure is not due to illness - there seems to be a bit about on this forum :worried:. I hope the "unforeseen circumstances" are not too bad. Good luck. :thumbsup:. David.
As others have said 'sorry to see you go'.
Come back from time to time when the mood takes you
Sorry to hear that. :( I hope you can stay on here and perhaps start over in months to come.
Very sorry to hear your news, Geoff, especially as we have met up occasionally.
No need to drop off the forum, though :no:
Don't be a stranger.
I hope things get better for you and you keep some bits a to make a small layout please keep helping us on here with great advice please. mike :thankyousign:
We need the space at home and maybe I can build a small shelf layout, it's all to do with space and I am a bit gutted as I had the layout running sweet.
Ditto with all the above, selling up makes me wonder who those people where that will buy your stock. hope that
makes sense john.
All the best, Geoff. :thumbsup:
Looking forward to seeing that shelf layout!
Thanks for all your kind replies but my wife has told me not to sell up and put it away until a later date, I think I have filled about 10 storage boxes, so at the present time nothing for sale except 2 loco's and 1 royal mail set with 3 parcel carriages and 1 loco class 47 which needs a lot of attention as this is a non runner, I will post pictures tomorrow.
Great advice from your wife, seriously. Too many people sell up as they think they are out of the game, then regret it only weeks or months later.
Bill.
Glad to hear 'The Authorities' have helped you make that decision, Geoff, as I'm sure you'd have regretted it further down the line, so to speak.
Quote from: newportnobby on January 18, 2016, 09:12:58 AM
Glad to hear 'The Authorities' have helped you make that decision, Geoff, as I'm sure you'd have regretted it further down the line, so to speak.
I was gutted when I dismantled the layout over the weekend and with the wife telling me to put it all in to storage put a smile on my face and brought me back to sanity, I do enjoy the hobby so at the moment I am going to put together a small layout I can tuck away for the time being.
How about a T-Trak approach while space is at a minimum.
Small light-weight units, easy to make and wire, easy to work on, very easy and quick to assemble, easy to store, expandable, shrinkable, rearrange-able. Can use your DCC stuff and other materials.
That's good news Geoff. I can empathise with the dismantling... did the same myself over Xmas. It doesn't seem half so distressing when you know you will be rebuilding again one day. And maybe doing it better next time (in my case anyway). Glad you get to box it up for the future.
One of the great things about N is that it doesn't need to take up lots of space, one of my favourite layouts is Black Sheep Lane.
I've always liked small layouts and think it is sometimes more of a challenge to build a small layout than a big one.
I'm very pleased to hear you aren't selling up.
Great news. :thumbsup:
Yep, good to hear. :thumbsup:
Great news, I still have some N gauge in boxes that I wouldn't get rid of, although I now model other scales, with micro layouts.
Well the opposite sex are strange beings, her indoors the one that has to be obeyed has told me I can have the room back, Screams out loud with a thunderous din but not in front of the wife all my hard work was ripped up and baseboards put in the tip so now I am working out how much the cost will be to build a new layout, so this time I am going to do one which goes around the room which can be taken down easily and stored, I have come up with a design but not sure if it will work but it seems OK.
So here is a photo what I have come up with.
I am doing the baseboard with 9mm MDF and fully seal it but with it being indoors it should be OK.
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The room is 3250 x 1900 and all in Kato track, I do like Kato track it is so robust and reusable.
with me making a 15" shelf all round the room I will have to crawl in and out of the room after crawling to the wife and re thanking her for my room back, lets hope she does not change her mind.
Swmbo work in mysterious ways.
Good to hear that you can start again - definitely seal both sides of the MDF and when cutting /drilling it vacuum up the dust asap - I know its a pain but better than having breathing problems brought on by the dust.