My N gauge brickworks layout.
Has character but it just does not feel right.
Trouble is buildings being lit are all permanently fixed to the board and all the other sundries would be scrap if I tried to change anything.
Think it may end up in mothballs in the loft.
My shoe box layouts are mothballed.
My Latest Micro 009 roundy round layout being totally scratchbuilt and smaller than our tablemats however is just brilliant and I fancy building another micro like it.

Quote from: Oldman on March 03, 2014, 08:45:11 PM
My N gauge brickworks layout.
Has character but it just does not feel right.
Trouble is buildings being lit are all permanently fixed to the board and all the other sundries would be scrap if I tried to change anything.
Think it may end up in mothballs in the loft.

Did you ever post a picture of the brickworks ?.

My problem is I am not happy with the fiddle yard. I have tried making it visible, didn't like it,  part covered with a townscape, not happy and now trying to cover the rest of it with a canal.
Trouble is I will probably not be able to get at any trains once I do that.

Mr undecided...

Yeah.... you have to toss up what you want with fiddle yards and hidden stuff as opposed to what's visible.

In relation to the original title of this thread, but also tied in with your fiddle yard post, I used half-inch ply right through my layout when I built it, but for some unfathomable reason, when I laid baseboard down in hidden storage loops and one of the most inaccessible areas of my layout (I'm talking standing on a chair, reaching over two and a half foot of sceniced layout and a fifteen inch high backscene to get to it), I swapped to very thin ply (not even quarter inch thick)!

It has warped over the years, and is as in accessible as ever - more so - I'm a lot older!

Another least liked thing about my layout!!

Oh... another thing which I was saving for the angry thread, but may as well post it here while I'm ranting.... I've had pain in my right thumb for 12 months now, (right handed, of course), and just paid a young specialist A$200 today to be told I have arthritis. 

I always knew I was in the wrong job!

Anyway.... back on topic.... what do I least like about my layout? GETTIN' OLD,  BOTH THE LAYOUT AND ME!!!! 

George

Quote from: Jerry Howlett on March 04, 2014, 10:57:54 AM

Did you ever post a picture of the brickworks ?.

Try "Willow Brickworks" Jerry