We have moved from our apartment into a nice two bedroom bungalow. Now my original plan, before the current house was found, was to use the 2nd bedroom as before as my mother-i-law has gone into a care home so I was to get my hobby room back. However, the bungalow that we found has a 28' garage that has been insulated and fitted out with lighting and electricity sockets. Well, it couldn't be any better, could it!
Mind you, once moved in, the garage was full of shelving and cupboards leaving not a lot of room for the railway. This was going to be restricted to being on two tables of 750x1800mm which wasn't much better than squashed into a side of the living room in the flat. A big rethink was required!
The new plan was clear out the whole garage and get rid of as much as I could. Valerie's cupboard of Jigsaw puzzles was emptied and the jigsaws found homes in various cupboards in the house. My cupboard was emptied along with the shelf unit down the back of the garage. The idea was "if it hasn't been used in 6 months then I either don't want it or it is for a long term project". Even unopened bottles of Woodland Scenics flock went as they were taking up space and were easily replaced when needed.
The next step was to put the two cupboards and the shelving unit on Facebook. They were snapped up. They turned up with a van and it was all gone!
My next step was to build the baseboards. The plan is to have the original station from the flat on one wall. Well, not the original flat but a rebuild on plywood rather than on foam care. The railway will then rum behind my scale model display case over to the other side of the garage where there will be two levels. The same level as the first board will be for the fiddle yard which will be double ended so trains can go straight through on one line and be swapped about on the other. The front of the board will be a little bit lower and comprise a nice little branch line ending. The through line will then return over a removable bridge.
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