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Miniatures Adventure => Railway Wargaming => Topic started by: Doug ex-em4 on February 22, 2019, 09:43:52 AM

Title: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on February 22, 2019, 09:43:52 AM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-47163833

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: OSHIROmodels on February 22, 2019, 10:19:06 AM

I do like a good model railway  8)

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: Etranger on February 22, 2019, 10:25:27 AM

It's a good exhibition to get to if you're anywhere near Glasgow. Plenty of inspiration for terrain.

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on February 22, 2019, 12:49:38 PM

Quote from: OSHIROmodels on February 22, 2019, 10:19:06 AM

I do like a good model railway  8)

Yes, so do I and with the availability of cheap, tiny cameras these days, you can get those great videos taken from the front of an engine. Cool....!

Doug

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: OSHIROmodels on February 22, 2019, 01:23:47 PM

Showing your inner child there Doug?  lol

(Not that I blame you of course  :D)

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on February 22, 2019, 01:40:42 PM

Quote from: OSHIROmodels on February 22, 2019, 01:23:47 PM

Showing your inner child there Doug?  lol

(Not that I blame you of course  :D)

Shucks - you’re right, of course. And it means I fit right in with everyone else on this forum :D

Doug

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: OSHIROmodels on February 22, 2019, 02:44:05 PM

 lol

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on February 22, 2019, 06:47:40 PM

Thanks for the link, that is an amazing layout.

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Yes, so do I and with the availability of cheap, tiny cameras these days, you can get those great videos taken from the front of an engine.

Been watching these on YouTube, superb! Now they have car and boat systems too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0xv3QyhWRI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0xv3QyhWRI)

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on February 22, 2019, 07:42:05 PM

Quote from: Mad Lord Snapcase on February 22, 2019, 06:47:40 PM

Thanks for the link, that is an amazing layout.

Been watching these on YouTube, superb! Now they have car and boat systems too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0xv3QyhWRI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0xv3QyhWRI)

Great finds, Snappy, Old Fruit (didn’t see any boats, mind you ;) ). A couple of observations about the splendid motorway footage:

1. Those chaps all seem to be driving on the wrong side of the road.
2. The spacing between vehicles seem to be as bad as in real life - tailgating was n miniature  :D

Doug

Doug

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on February 23, 2019, 07:52:44 AM

Boats here (they even have water skiers!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRyy7DV5HM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRyy7DV5HM)

You're right about the tailgating, very dangerous!

Finding that one I came across this one, watch out for Hoffa Cement and Wicked Wandas!   :-*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfP9v47M1U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfP9v47M1U)

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on February 23, 2019, 09:48:13 AM

Quote from: Mad Lord Snapcase on February 23, 2019, 07:52:44 AM

Boats here (they even have water skiers!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRyy7DV5HM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRyy7DV5HM)

You're right about the tailgating, very dangerous!

Finding that one I came across this one, watch out for Hoffa Cement and Wicked Wandas!   :-*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfP9v47M1U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfP9v47M1U)

That was some layout with quite a few little jokes like Hoffa Cement. Someone should buy the bloke who did the video a tripod, though. And maybe tie his legs together :) The boats weren’t really in the same class as the road and rail - those sailing dinghies speeding round in defiance of nature, for example.

Doug

Title: Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
Post by: Michi on February 27, 2019, 10:46:54 AM

Excellent find Doug, thanks for showing. I dream of an equally stretched layout in my attic...
If I only had a little more time.