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Author Topic: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website  (Read 4535 times)

Offline Doug ex-em4

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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2019, 10:19:06 AM »
I do like a good model railway  8)
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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2019, 12:49:38 PM »
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....!

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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2019, 01:23:47 PM »
Showing your inner child there Doug?  lol

(Not that I blame you of course  :D)

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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2019, 01:40:42 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

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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2019, 02:44:05 PM »
 lol

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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #7 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
« Last Edit: February 22, 2019, 06:51:03 PM by Mad Lord Snapcase »


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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2019, 07:42:05 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
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

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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2019, 07:52:44 AM »
Boats here (they even have water skiers!).

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
« Last Edit: February 23, 2019, 07:57:43 AM by Mad Lord Snapcase »

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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2019, 09:48:13 AM »
Boats here (they even have water skiers!).

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

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

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Re: Fantastic layout - long article and photos on BBC website
« Reply #11 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.