The Loose Association of Wargamers

I am as much a modeller as a wargamer, I enjoy making terrain and buildings etc.

And I have always fancied a nice model Railway too.

So I was looking at options during these locked down times and.

Fook me are railways expensive!

Even worse if you do not have space, z gauge would cost twice the cost of OO gauge to do and N gauge 1.5 times and I just do not have the space for OO.

Model railways make GW look a reasonable price!

You don't need a large space but it does depend upon what you're after. If you 'do' Facebook take a look here https://www.facebook.com/groups/1911992 ... 1274862745 4'X2' sized layouts in 00.

One loco and a handful of carriages and wagons shouldn't break the bank, again depending upon what you're after.

Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 9:08 am One loco and a handful of carriages and wagons shouldn't break the bank, again depending upon what you're after.

With that sort of minimalist layout, Fredd could replicate one of those re-opened, self-contained rural lines staffed entirely by volunteers, that don't produce enough smoke and noise pollution to remind people just why the powers that be got rid of them.

Probably the most impressive layout I've ever seen.
http://www.modelrailroading.nl/news%20a ... index.html
In one of those weird stories this layout was built by a chap from just outside Chester who loved the Dorset area. Needing to dispose of it he gave it to the National Trust. The only available space they had was Ormesby Hall in Middlesbrough.

It's well worth a visit. The guides are great and will probably show you where it had to be sawn up to get it out of the maker's attic.

That is quite something.

Yes I know about shunting planks and the like, but I am a wargamer, so that is like starting with frostgrave, but you know you will end up doing Oathmark sized.

Well bloody hell I never realised that was in Ormesby Hall

I never realised they had something so worthwhile in Middlesborough.

It’s a long list so it’s difficult to keep up I know

That layout’s buildings are quite something, they look as good as the Pendon Museum:
https://pendonmuseum.com/
which was always my favourite railway layout.

Wargaming is dirt cheap in comparison with most other hobbies, especially in start-up costs. Anybody who moans about GW ought to take a look at golf!

I sent this video to my 75 year old Uncle who loved it. But he wasn't sure whether the modeller had accurately copied the seat my uncle carved out of the banking when he was train spotting in the 50s.
The nutter who made this layout must be minted. At 9.45 "three artics to transport it to the NEC".
https://youtu.be/dUd5-R-jdXg