Dear vsmith,
You’re ambitious! I thought I was pushing it with O in 20x20. This just goes to show, there’s always someone trying to put more into less space. And what’s your minimum radius?
You’re either very brave or very determined,
Daniel
right now my layout is 4x8 HO layout but I am going to ad on another 4x4 section
My first layout was a starter N scale at 4’x4’. My new layout currently under construction in the benchwork stage is 16’x17’ walk in with a 10’ peninsula.
Ron
Mine is exactly 7 5/8. Which is my hatsize! i.e. its in the planning stage. I will be building a PRR Industrial switching layout where the visible part will be a “Diorama” 10’ x 2’ with a 5 track fiddle yard 6’ long in the closet off one end. I hope to start this in the new year.
Not brave, just Nuts!
Its not so much ambition but nessecity. I had planned a garden layout, unfortunatly my wife also had plans for the same patch of ground so guess who won that match…[;)]
Instead I said I would take a portion of the garage, I still had to park her car in there, so my layout got down-sized considerably. So out went the big locos and big curves in came the industrials, critters, and varmits. I’m using 4’ diameter curves (R1), small industrial locos, and shorty freight cars and 2 axle frieght cars.
I’ve always wanted to do that “finescale” thing in large scale but never thought the wife would let me do it in the garage so I was a bit shocked when she ousted me from the garden and banished me into the garage.
So now I get to try and make something really interesting. I studied alot of plans from Carl Ardent’s Micro-Layouts webpage to help refine the process. Each time I got too ambitious and had too much crammed into the layout, I would go back to the webpage, then eventually realize that less IS more, ands go with the less fussy ideas. As it is there is still alot of work in it to do. All my track is down, next is the scenery to start, then buildings to integrate.
10’X12’[;)]
10x12x13, u shaped, with a width of 2’ to 5’. Mostly still in planning and construction stage.
Dear trainboy,
No offense, (just pointing something out) It seems that you dislike your 4x8 layout. I mean with all the [:(!] and the [V]. Hey, I feel the same way about my 5x8. Someday we’ll have empires and we’ll see whose’s laughing! [:)]
Mine is under construction 6x8. I’m building it on top of an Air Hockey table (7 foot), that my wife tried to sell[:)]. I get to keep both!!
-Tom
mine fills most of a 12x18 room and has 3 levels with a continous run on the bottom with a long out and back on the upper levels.
jon
I’m a glutton for punishment, “G” scale layout is 10’x62’ with a 12’x12’ ell under a deck.
HO standard gauge city style switching layout on two foot wide shelf along the walls of a 11’x7’ room.
HOn30…“micro” layout 15"x48", still trying to get the little beggers to run better.
Gn15…“micro” layout (Savannah Waterfront) on Carl Arendt’s “Micro Layouts for Model Railroads” site. http://www.carendt.com
OLD DAD
Perhaps this thread would be more accurate if the poll would have been in square feet. THen every layout size is covered, since there are very few “rectangular” layouts once you pass 4x8. Such as:
1-32 sq ft
33-48 sq ft
49-64 sq ft
65-80 sq ft
81-100 sq ft
101-140 sq ft
141-165 sq ft
166-190 sqft
etc. I dont know what the variables would be, but you see my idea. [:)]
-My small diorama: about 1 X 4 ft (no loop, trains are going back and forth)
-My future layout (I wish I start it in next january): walk-around 15 x 22 ft, walkaround style.
Both are Z scale.
Hey OLD DAD, you and I have similar psychosis… I mean tastes!
I’m also doing two Micro layouts, an HOn30 thats 9" x 10" and a G gauge (yes, full G guage) layout based on one of Carl’s “shoebox madness” layouts, “Cycles de Berlan”, and Yes! its under the 4 sq foot rule!
I picked “other” as mine is 24 by 38 feet.
Geez…that sounds like a monster. BTW, what scale?
I took over my basement, my layout is 30’long x14 wide with wall to wall and walk around areas. My wife thinks im crazy but I tell her im not sitting in a bar all night.
Mine is 6X3. But Im told this is good for n-scale. At least Im up from 4X3. I have a lot going on includung two big and one small yard, a continuous loop mainline,(note I avoided the term “oval”), and trains ranging from general merchandise to coal to an intermodal train…It`s all in what you do with what you have.
And it still takes up half of my darn bedroom!!!
My N layout is in a “study” - now the train room which is 9 1/2 by 13 1/2 feet. In it so far, I’ve built a double decked layout. A few years from now I will add a third deck under the current lower deck strictly to be used for staging. At first I was worried I couldn’t have a decent size layout in this room, but I have my hands full since I do most of the building by myself.
It’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it, no, it’s how you build it, or, never mind, size is everything.
Have a Merry Christmas