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I've always wanted to try my hand at a small(ish) G Scale Display layout - I recently had the opportunity when invited to the local community Christmas Fayre with the trains. Initially, I was going to do my usual and take the spare set-track and do a display but they wanted it in Santa's grotto on a table. I felt an oval of track with no trimmings wasn't quite Santa-magical so took the opportunity. The challenge was I had around two weeks to do it (and it took me a week to start the baseboards).
The layout is 2.4m x 1.6m (~8ft x 5 1/4ft) and built on 6mm ply with battening undernearth and splits in the middle for easier transport. The track plan is based on the old LGB Factory pre-made layouts but with an extra siding in the station.
I knew I wanted a wintery vibe given the season but also thought it would be fun to do. Also reduced the complexity of needing to do static grass and the like. The snow effect was done using polyfiller spread out using my fingers. The small hills are papermache (Which didn't really look very good, will probably redo). The buildings are from Pola with the station platform being more battening under the spare 6mm ply. The trees were the 'cheap' Amazon Christmas decorations which I covered with spray mount glue and drizzled modelling scatter and clumping on. After setting up, these were adding and I used a large amount of spray snow for the frosted effect.
Layout is wired for DCC - and can eventually be automated (each block is isolated) but that's a future project.
My favourite part of the layout was putting a smoke generator in the station building so the chimney smoked. I did this with a spare loco decoder and a smoke generator I have yet to install.
Anyway, as I know most of us appreciate pictures more than words - here is the final result:
The layout is 2.4m x 1.6m (~8ft x 5 1/4ft) and built on 6mm ply with battening undernearth and splits in the middle for easier transport. The track plan is based on the old LGB Factory pre-made layouts but with an extra siding in the station.
I knew I wanted a wintery vibe given the season but also thought it would be fun to do. Also reduced the complexity of needing to do static grass and the like. The snow effect was done using polyfiller spread out using my fingers. The small hills are papermache (Which didn't really look very good, will probably redo). The buildings are from Pola with the station platform being more battening under the spare 6mm ply. The trees were the 'cheap' Amazon Christmas decorations which I covered with spray mount glue and drizzled modelling scatter and clumping on. After setting up, these were adding and I used a large amount of spray snow for the frosted effect.
Layout is wired for DCC - and can eventually be automated (each block is isolated) but that's a future project.
My favourite part of the layout was putting a smoke generator in the station building so the chimney smoked. I did this with a spare loco decoder and a smoke generator I have yet to install.
Anyway, as I know most of us appreciate pictures more than words - here is the final result:
