I know that these questions have been asked before it’s just that the number of topics to search are just to many, so I would like to know a little about your layout…
The first question is what scale do you model, and how big of a room is your layout in? How long have you been working on your layout? How much of your layout is compleate? How often do you work on your layout?
I model HO (the best in my opinion!). It’s set up in a spare bedroom in the house and the room is 12X12 in size. It’s not as spacious as I’d like but it will have to do for now. I don’t know if layouts are ever really completed; there’s always some extra detailing you may want to add or structures you’d consider building to occupy a spot on the layout that suddenly seems barren. I tend to work on my layout on weekends when I have more free time–and it’s a long way from resembling ‘complete.’ Tracks are in place, as is a bridge. Next round? Trying my hand at scenery.
HO.
16x7.75 feet.
About eight months.
Maybe 5-10%.
A couple hours a week.
I model ‘N’. I feel it is the best for the space I have available, plus I really enjoy seeing the detail possible in such small equipment.
The room I am in is 11’ x 12’ (our formal dining room). My wife is letting me take it over until the holiday season next year when we will need it again. At that time I will move my layout (built on 2" extruded foam board) to another location I have available that will hold a 4’ x 8’ layout.
I’ve been working on my layout since Christmas – about two weeks now. I have my track planned and about 50% of it laid. I’ve determined my overall concept – the industrial area near the train station, the suburban housing, the area of major hills, etc. I’ve got a few token buildings purchased (passenger station, platform, and suburban home) but have not had time to do anything with them yet.
I guess my layout would be less than 1% complete. But I LOVE running my train around what I DO have!
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I also model in N, a recent move 4 years ago having forced me to switch from HO. My layout’s in a room about, I guess, 6" x 12" (my bedroom) and the layout is only 4" x 4" after allowing room for my computer, scanner, and printer and the computer desk, my TV and the cabnet it’s on, and my bed. I’ve been working on it, off and on, for 4 years now, and only have about 2% completed. I’m in no hurry to “finish” it, cause I’m about the only one who’s ever gonna see it!
But, I don’t work due to a disability, **%#$#@!!! But, that’s another story!!!
I have few freinds, & don’t drive, so I have plenty of time on my hands.
HO freelance
26’ x 8’ with room to grow (once kids move out)
8 years on and off (hard to find time between going to sea, studying, Cubs, Beavers and now Troop and family).
On average I work on it 6 hours a week. (countless hours dreaming)
% completed? That’s a good one, it will never be completed! I removed a service track yesterday to rework it. Next week part of the main line will be re-routed and a turnout added. I’m still contimplating about a siding on the “Back Nine”. and to top it off I still have two sections to add which will add about 60 to 80 feet of track to the mess. Hence the name!
HO scale proto/freelance. Era 1978. Fills a room of 60’ X 30’, 2, 3 and 4 decks. I work on it an hour or so every night and at least one full day on the weekends. I’ve been working on it for 1 1/2 years, first year was mostly room prep. Benchwork is just about done, just a few sections of backdrop left to do. Mainline is about 50% done.
Try this thread in the “Layouts and Layout Building” Forum for additional information!
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10672
Andrew
HO scale
4 x 7 ft.
Since July 2003 (with a 4 month pause)
2 hours a day (none during school days)
Approximately 60% complete (I’m having trouble with a very heavy forest and with structure details)
The track plan is horribly simple, but I’ll compensate it with lots of details, special effects and fine rolling stock.
Two layouts: One a HO scale 8 X 1 shelf layout, the other a 6 X 4 test track for running in of new locos - allows me to set them going, leave them for an hour or so, then come back. Hope to expand it to 8 x 4 or maybe longer soon.
Room: 18x22
Layout: 6x17
Scale: HO
Time: 5 years
Complete: 15%
Working time: 2 or 3 hors a week.
RMax
Most of the basement of my house is devoted t my trains. I actually have more than one layout. First, there’s my HO layout. It’s actually in three sections that are combined into one layout that form an L-shape. I can run 7 trains simultaineously on it. It has a large yard with a roundhouse and intermodal terminal, plus a town and other industries such as a logging operation and gold mine. I also have a small layout for my Tri-ang HO/OO trains, which isn’t really supposed to be a scale appearing layout. I also collect prewar and postwar O and S gauge tinplate trains and have a large U-shaped layout for them. It’s basically just a lot of trains and accessories laid out on green carpeting and is very much a toy/tinplate style layout.
- HO Scale
- room is like 6" wide by 10" long. its really tiny. its just a storage room that i had my mom clean out and its by my room so thats nice.
- i haven’t been able to start my layout as my dad hasn’t bought the supplies for the bench work even though i gave him a list of what i needed.
- nothing is complete at all. haven’t started.
- i look/work on kits and come on here daily so i guess this is my layout. the trains are part of it to so i guess usually nightly or try to every other day.
Room: 9X24
Layout: 9X12 with two 10 foot staging yards stacked in a shelving unit
Scale: HO
Time: 4 years
Time: working on it 2-3 hours a week
Gordon
Room size 22’ X 23’
Layout fills entire room. HO scale continuous run mainline 165’ long w/ 65 foot branchline to be built.
Started layout in April 2002. Mainline is complete, branchline not started. I expect it to take 10-20 years to complete the layout.
I try to work a couple of hours three nights a week and a couple of hours over the weekend.
This is my 7th layout (and hopefully my final one. My first three were Lionel and the last four have been HO scale. I like HO because of the size, the ranfge of available products and the price relative to other scales.
My layout is in HO scale. The room is 18x28, but it is also the playroom and homeschool room. I have been working on it for about 15 years. The first 3 layouts were never finished. The latest one was started about 2 years ago and is about 5% done. In the winter I work on it almost 5 nights a week. But in the summer almost not at all. My boating hobby takes over then. Joe
Ho freelance 1930’s and up. It’s approximately 5’ x 16’ with room to expand. It’s up against a wall in the corner of my garage. In case you’re curious, the legs are mounted to concrete floor coaster type wheels so I can pull it out and eliminate reaching across to work on the backside. My backdrop will eventually be painted along the wall, so that will never be a problem.
HO scale-
It’ll be a 5x8. The room I’m gonna put it in is like, oh, 7x8 or something like that. I’ve not purchased bench work yet, but I have been drawing track plans in math class. And, of course most of you probably know what I’m going to model, UP (!gasp!) in the 1940-1960’s area (to big an era?).
My layout is about 12X12 HO. It is a little tight since it is in the furnace room. I had to take some apart to replace the furnace and still haven’t replaced it yet. It took about three years to build and collect rolling stock. My job in aircraft can be long hours so I hit the couch ( and the wine ) when I get home. Ha! ever try running trains on the layout with the wine? OPPS! hope that wasn’t the new proto. rambo1…
HO scale
11x4 feet
working on it for 1 year
85%-95% completed.
2-3 hrs a week.
ShaunCN 