Looking great again! You're very creative with the use of such a small space, just impressive!

Updates! The fiddle yard track is finally ballasted, and almost all the major scenery is completed

Added the speeder track siding

reconfigured part of the old mine building into an industrial/warehouse building, with the tipple in place

Need to repaint this figure into a lost biker looking at a road map

More layers of scenery added as I go

Again more scenery, more junk behind the drug store

Managed to reinsert the infamous "shell hill" episode from my childhood

Lots of activity down by the station

I was able to reinsert this nice ceramic "ruins" peice back into the layout

The top of the layout, lots of figures added in

I think I am about 90% done, all thats left is inserting additional weeds, plants and rusty junk along with maybe a few more figures and details like mining tools and a few stray dogs, well see-I'm just going with whatever feels right now.

Victor;

Great work! I love the tin can in the middle of the track in the last photo, and is that Cousin It standing on the street near the track?

Best,
David Meashey

Oh, Okay.

In the previous view his face did not show, and the cape kind of looked like long hair.

Thanks,
David Meashey

Final Updates!

Added back the old old style motorized wagon typical of early trucks

seams to have suffered a break down

scenery finished at the fiddle yard sidings

around the shanty, added the velociped back

reworked the industrial buidling/station a tad, need to find a scale mouse for the cat to be pouncing on

still a few small things to finish, can always add more junk and scale trash but I think its 98% done.
Be nice if I could take it to a show sometime, but my car couldn't carry all of it including the base, would need a van at least. We'll see what unfolds.

Some one stick a fork in it, I think its done!!!

 

Vic;

It is outstanding, but after seeing you at work on this site, I doubt that it will ever be truly done. You always seem to find more enhancements.

Best,
David Meashey

Love it! So many "little scenes" that tell a story. Must be fun to watch in real.
I really hope you can get it "on tour" sometimes so others can enjoy it.

Thanks, I was beginning to think Dave was the only one still interested in this

I am with you Vic.  That's a lot of intense action going on.  You could look at that layout for days.  Well done!!

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A switch track leading where?...

I want to see if I can connect the lower circle to the fiddle yard. So far I'm looking at either a cut down R1 switch or a scratched single point tram turnout.

Great work Vic

I love it

Looks like this will get another dose of the Shrink Ray

I will need to remove the Fiddle Yard and shorten the base of this by merging the High Bridge into the base, It currently hangs out to one side but I need to shrink this yet once more to make room for "something else " so this Pizza will be getting a 10 1/2" shave coming soon, maybe this weekend, the Fiddle Yard will for now be set aside but not discarded, to do this will require a major dismantling of parts of the base and some rather insane cutting, but luckily I have the perfect tool for just such an occasion....no....its NOT a chainsaw

Downsizing into oblivion?

Might be time to think about that shelf layout, or something you can winch up to the ceiling when not in use.

The game is afoot Watson

Benchwork on the mobile table is done, slotting the High Bridge into the side of the base turned out on one hand to be easier than I expected as only a few screws held the top down, but harder in other respects, as notching the side of the table and then cutting alot of other notches for the support members took some doing but it was mostly a single nights work. Ended up not being able to remove the entire 10 1/2" taken up by the fiddle yard, ended up with about 3" gap between the pizza layout and the new edge of benchwork. This will be filled with a 1x6 that will slot into the leftover space and act like a locking piece, just as the fiddle yard section did, I will add a section of track here to act once again as a fiddle yard. The new fiddle will overhang the edge of benchwork a little but it will work out just fine. The layout still has the rear scenery insert, but will fit into the garage easier. The reason I am doing this is to clear space for a new endevour

I hope you are going to post some pictures of the changes soon!

Mike

Pics of the changes

New Fiddle Track

The rear stays about the same

Modified High Bridge

Instead of jutting out its entire depth, now its tucked tidely into the baseworks.
Just some painting to touch up, a little ballasting and its on to the next project.

Very nice.

Thanks!

Mike

Victor;

As always, you have succeeded in creating the ultimate tiny tail chaser!

Best wishes,
David Meashey

could you run a 4-6-0 on those turns?