What fixtures in your train room presented an obstacle for your layout? Let's see photos of how you built around, or included, something like a pipe or chimney in your work. I recall seeing one photo of a chimney disguised quite effectively as a skyscraper.
Here is a shot of how I dealt with a water heater. Curved display shelves were made of 1/2" MDF and backed with1/8" hardboard.
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Interesting idea.
What if the water heater's relief valve is stuck and the heater decides to become a missile? Do the trains fly as well?
I was fortunate and have encountered none. One room is 40x36 with no posts and the other is 30x24, and no posts to work around as well.
Interesting idea.
What if the water heater's relief valve is stuck and the heater decides to become a missile? Do the trains fly as well?
Thoughtful question. The whole thing is held up by four screws, so it's easy to remove for checking the water heater.
Small size of the room. I ended up with a small peninsula into the middle of the room biased to one side since the other side has the freezer and door to the back yard.
In the basement there was always avoiding the support column, also needed to leave access to the breaker box, and water pipe which were in two corners and the gas pipe which was in the middle of the wall, so never got to utilize the length of the basement like I wanted to.
Whoever built the house decided placing the utilities in different locations throughout the basement was a good idea. Gas meter is in north west corner, furnace and water heater is in the south west corner, laundry room is in the north east corner, sump pit and main waste stack cleanout is in the south east corner. Stairs come down the middle. There are two walls that were available without undertaking major renovations. I got the crappy part of the basement, the kids got the finished rec room.
Due to the harmonious room design of the Nickle Plate Rail Railroad's construction, spanning this 8 foot window meant building a through arch bridge capable of supporting itself and any traffic I could throw at it.
Child's play compared to turning the attic into my next layout room. I literally had to start from the ground up with major reconstruction on all 3 levels of the house. Had I gone with gas heating I could have eliminated the furnace chimney, effectively removing any future layout obstacle.
Bruce
My architectural feature was my crawl space....you can read about my layout and what I did with my crawl space in the next edition of OGR.
Billschoff,
The mountain looks brilliant. Reminds me of many of the sheer faces such as El Capitan that are beloved of climbers. Do you have any mountaineer figures?
The space between the walls was insufficient to accommodate ideas emanating from the space between my ears.
What, me worry?
Billschoff,
The mountain looks brilliant. Reminds me of many of the sheer faces such as El Capitan that are beloved of climbers. Do you have any mountaineer figures?
No, I hadn't thought of climbers but you can bet I'm gonna get some now. Thanks!
My layout has experienced several years of SOIL Erosion.
That is where a 6x12 layout becomes a 5x10 to accommodate the architectural items know as my son's vintage arcade machines!
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