Just for fun - If i ever built anything that looks like the real thing.... it's by accident ! 

Prototpye modeller for me.
Saneham Tey which is a pretty accurate copy of Marks Tey on the GEML. This is a group effort for the exhibition circuit. Next up is my personal layout to be built/started this year, ply sorted for base boards just need to build them now, this one is going to be a copy of East Suffolk Jc in Ipswich also on the GEML.

Stu

A cross between Prototype Freelancer and Prototype Modeller, but I've gone for the first as I will never have the time, detailed info or inclination get things accurarte to the Nth detail...

Roy

Ive gone for Proto- Free lance.
Im modeling the Yosemite Valley Railway but only have a scale half mile rather than the 78 that the real one occupied.
The station names are real, the trackplan isnt.
The industries are pretty real, the train lengths arent
Im also operating up to about 10 years after the real deal was scrapped.
As ever, the plan is to have fun, and build a model I can be proud of that looks nice and works well!

At the moment, very much "just for fun", although the intention is for some kind of consistency of time period, if not specific geography.  No pre-grouping steamers and Japanese bullet trains on the same layout!  I'm interested in learning more as I go along about how railways really worked, and if I can fit some of that in I will, but something that's fun for me to both build and operate in the limited space I've got is the top priority.

For me it is Prototype Freelancer, as although I have tried to capture the essence of the line in Japanese the layout is set, the station itself is fictitious. Also with the stock; I can run what I term 'true Chuo' trains, but a few visitors do regularly crop up...

How do everyone,and a happy new year to all who can be bothered to read my ramblings.

Anyway,on to the subject.

I model,predictably,the east coast mainline,in a purely fictional location in south yorkshire.It is mainly BR blue era with a smattering of large logo and railfreight red stripe.I am going to buy a Pacer and a Supersprinter in the future to add to my existing loco,dmu and hst fleet as well as maybe a couple of blue class 56's when they become available.As a fictional town,I have modellers licence on my side and can allow my imagination to run wild,just need to get on with it.I'm currently setting up scenic boards that fit over the top of the storage yard and to the right of the layout because I went a bit mad at the track laying stage,almost completely filling a 10 foot by 4 foot baseboard.Although it is based on the east coast mainline,I do have a western region hst,but instead of seven coaches,mine has eight.I also have a 121 bubblecar which were well known for not occupying east coast routes but not on my layout.As my signature at the bottom of my contributions says,"its my train set and I'll run worra like!"

Thats all from me.

Pete

Another ECML-er here 

Mine is a completely fictional town, but it is meant to capture the feel of the southern end of the ECML at the end of the 80's into early 90's, possibly somewhere north of Peterborough so not too urban. 100% accuracy of stock isn't important to me, so although Swallow HSTs and a '225' are the mainstays there are also two 47-hauled sets to add a bit of variation - one in Intercity, and one in NSE on diversion from Kings Lynn. DMU stock was whatever was available in the right livery, so Regional Railways 156s on the mainline and blue/grey 108s on the branch.

The biggest fictional element I suppose is the rail-fed dairy as I think they all disappeared long ago in the real world? Having been around dairies a fair bit I thought it would make a change from the usual industries you see at exhibition 


Paul

I'm still planning.  However I'm quite definite about the setting.  It will be set in the early thirties, with grouping rejected (who could have wanted four regional monopolies in the French model) in favour of more competition with the authorised Railway Companies being allowed to run on any company's lines for the same charge as the own company.  I still need to work out some details to make the alternative history believable.

Originally set in Bolton, the location will now be Turton nearer the sea, allowing me to run LNWR, L&Y, MR, GCR and others.

I went for True Freelance as the closest box.

I try to model contemporary north west England, only having stock that might reasonably appear north or east of Manchester, and what little scenery I have so far is intended to reflect the geology and architecture of the area.  I think that puts me somewhere between Prototype Freelancer and True Freelancer but I'll plump for the first. 

I try to model post WWII GWR and generally manage to keep locos, rolling stock and buildings as authentic as possible. The Freelance part comes in  when it comes to the actual track design which is more to suit the available space that to follow any particular prototypical location.

I describe myself as a what iffer. I pick my town, based on the actual railways (maybe even layout) but tweak things, sometimes quite major things, to meet my needs.

My last/current layout was unusual in that it stuck fairly faithfully to the maps and timetables, and the track layout was pretty close. My next will bear somewhat less resemblance to the real Salisbury, as it will play host to EMUs.

Well, prototype freelancer best describes me.
Though saying that, I do stick with modelling what was around and what ran in the era I'm modelling.
So no GM diesels will be appearing on my layout! 

Don't really have a set period/time/company so I put down 'just for fun'. When I ran my British stuff it was whatever I fancied although I did try to fit in a few local elements such as my Bedford coal truck, Wemyss and Fife Coal wagons and a wagon from Tullis Russel, a local paper mill 6-7 miles from where I live.

Alex

Im a prototype freelancer!!!
Though I dont like to model passenger trains, much preferring freight 
I'd like to build an oil terminal, a freightliner depot eventually and have a trackplan for a china clay layout somewhere on my computer!!!!!