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Cait's Possible Model Train Plans: a thread

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Something in the garden in 16mm scale/32mm gauge.

Pros:
It's FUN!
I already have a couple of kits, and some bits I printed out
Cons:
It's EXPENSIVE
I'm planning to move house, so I don't have anywhere outside to put it

Coding Cait
@cait@lgbtqia.space

The obvious combination of easy and experimentation is the 009 idea. But the German N gauge has a lot of "fun train set" style attraction.

Ideas 3 to 5 are probably waaaaay beyond my current skill level, if I'm being realistic, but would be nice for One Day projects

Coding Cait
@cait@lgbtqia.space

I mean, I say ideas 3-5 are unrealistic.

Something like Morlais Jn - the spot where the Brecon & Merthyr Railway met the LNWR for their joint line into Merthyr - could be done fairly easily as a "shelf" semi-working diorama, which could then be used as a 2mmFS testbed

Coding Cait
@cait@lgbtqia.space

Also, the 009 and the garden line would be the same fictional railway, an ore mining line in the Rhinogydd running to a harbour roughly where real-world Harlech is