4mm/ft HOME PAGE
This is the main or home page of the 4mm/ft section of this website.
When this section is completed the boxes above will contain hyperlinks
to other pages in the 4mm/ft section similar to how the 16mm/ft section
of the website works.
Our indoor railways
I'm simplifying some
issues here by categorising our 16mm/ft modelling as 'garden railways'
and the 4mm/ft stuff as indoor modelling. There are some good
examples elsewhere of 16mm stuff running indoors and 4mm stuff running
in gardens but for us at this time there is a clear distinction.
Non railway modellers might note that stating a scale as 4mm/ft is
confusing at it uses two different conventions but for modellers it is
very convenient and means that for each 4mm of the model there is 1 ft
or 12" of the real thing. Another way of stating the same scale is
as '1:76th scale' where the model is 76 times smaller than the real
thing or the dimension of a component in the model is 1/76 of the size
of the component in the real thing.
Layouts
We sold 'Newton Halt' to a caring admirer after we took it to its last
exhibition with us which was Warley 2008. Newton Halt was a
freelance 009 micro layout and served us well through many exhibitions
though we originally constructed it as an entry in a narrow gauge model
railway competition.
Since Newton Halt, garden railways seem to have taken over and 009
modelling has been at a standstill apart from putting a number of layout
plans and ideas onto paper. In the pipeline are two layouts, one
being our first prototype model of parts of The Welshpool and Llanfair
Light Railway, the second being another freelance exhibition model.
In the more distant future is the plan to model a fictitious Royal Navy
dockyard or jetty dated soon after WW1 with 009 trains serving old
submarines and coal fired destroyers and torpedo boats but this is too
far in the distance to justify digressing to describe it further.
Each layout actually under construction will have pages of this section
allocated to it.
The W+LLR layout is dependant on the delivery of two locomotives which
are being scratchbuilt for me. Until I get them any other work on
this layout will be postponed as even Golfa Bank's elevation can't be
worked out till I know what slope each loco will pull 11 wagons up or a
mixed train containing Worsley Works brass coaches. This leaves
the new freelance exhibition model which we will be calling 'Bodger's
Wood'.
Bodger's Wood
This is an exercise in perspective in scenic modelling and I'm
attempting to get all the actual model part of the layout onto one
board. However, this is not intended to be a micro layout so
I'm going to design the layout to fit exactly in my Mazda 5. If
this doesn't work then joints in the scenic area will have to be a
necessary evil. However, more about this later.
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Good luck
Andy
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