Once upon a time a small boy was given a train set (this is almost like editing RM again) the small boy was me, and the set was the ex Tri-ang, now Hornby, freight set with three wagons and a Brush Type 2 as they insisted on calling it. My fascination for 31s has remained since. This was the first and last time that I went around in circles in 4mm standard gauge though there have been a couple of 009s. For a while there has been the seed of an idea floating around and a couple of experiments have been carried out with mixed results. The trial corner section above is a rough carcass of a baseboard designed to carry two semicircles (rad 3 and 2) with a supporting cast of cutting type scenery. In itself this is perfectly fine, but the sections joining this and further corners may not be quite long enough to satisfy the thing in my head…but it keeps coming back. That coupled with the earlier comment about exhibitions, or lack thereof, keeps driving my head back to what would be a very no-geographical specific piece of line which would run around part of the room with 25% being FY loops. This is much influenced by AWK’s Summer Springs. This isn’t particularly ground-breaking, stuff, but it is a bit of a departure for me and I need to get my head around it, simple though it is. There is a plan B, though this doesn’t step away from the exhibition BLT quite enough, though I’m not discounting it at this stage.
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