G scale Pizza Microlayout - Tincan Junction

[Emettman]

The bridge and canyon look very good indeed. 
The foam has painted up well and gives a different,  "water-worn", rounded look.

Nice.

Chris.

[Vitto]

Got alot more scenery done, at least to what I consider the "base level" of scenery







More pics





Chief Mechanic Homer is lovin his new ride!

Realizing its kinda tough to shot pics without catching all the junk that surrounds it in the garage. Gonna need a graphics program to edit that out.

[Rowan]

Vitto,

It looks absolutely fabulous.

Do you have a wide angle view? So we can see the whole shebang?, not to mention all that stuff you want to photoshop out !! (That's what we want to see anyways)

Cheers
Rowan
 

[JoeCool]

Vitto...what is the overall size of your pizza. Is it two levels or three?
Very nice work, looks like it's been fun building.

[Vitto]

Thanks, its only 5'-6"x5'-6", three levels, 21" dia on top, 32" dia in the middle and a double circle of 4' dia track on the base. here is a pic kinda crowded but it gives a good idea of it overall:



The upper layout is removable, I designed it so the top could go to shows, but so far its only been to one (1) show since 2008...so I might just fix it permanantly.

[Rowan]

Only 5'6" square.... that's some pizza.
It looks great.

Thanks for sharing the bigger picture.
 
Rowan

[Vitto]

I have to face a few facts…

…the biggest being that my layout is once again, proving to be too large for my given circumstances. I’m really getting tired of this but between the growing need for more storage space, family issues, my new interest in Marxism (Louis Marx) and the fact that even though its mobile, my layout still literally eats ½ the garage open space…I really can’t keep the layout as it is. I think these problems have been apparent since I took up the fixed layout and began building the mobile layout. Model train layouts regardless of scale, tend to be enormous space eaters. It was the primary reason I dismantled the bigger layout, and this layout is about as small as it can get using R1 track. It’s just that now as I’m moving more things around between the house and the garage that this cannot be ignored again. I don’t want to just drop out of LS altogether, so instead I’m looking at taking down the lower 5’6” part of the mobile and doing probably what I should have done from Day 1 of dismantling the fixed layout, and that is focus 100% on the 3’ square micro layout, I never had any problems when that was all I had. I figure I can reuse 80% of the structures and 100% of the details and figures, the biggest issue facing me is the fact that there is still a sizable chunk of my roster that will never fit on the micro, so another round of sales will be coming up but I do plan to try and rebuild a couple of my favorites that wont currently fit. I seam destined to build micros. First thing to do is a complete photo documentation of the layout as is, then start test fitting structures onto the micro, get ready… I have a feeling this new layout is going to look insane before I’m finished with it. This is going to be quite a challenge…where’s the shoehorn?

Here I go… again…..

The end for the "wedding cake" layout:



Months to build - Hours to dismantle. As of tonight the upper pizza has been safely set aside, all the track is up and the raised platform has been taken apart, the ballast has been the toughest stuff to get up, but its slowely coming together.




The foam has been kept aside, I will try to reuse as much of it as possible

[Vitto]

Update:







New 1x6 trim boards around and painted, added new cassette on the side, working on making a new girder bridge section to go over the steel trestle side.

[Tommy Two Strikes]

Courage is knowing when it's time to dismantle...

[trainboy]

sad panda well hey now you can build another right?
-TB

[Vitto]

Updates! still a work in progress but its getting close



added a scenic element at the rear tool layout area, its easily removable and used up alot of the foam from the wedding cake



ground level view at the front



and at normal eye level




reworked mineshaft, right in the center



coming around the back at the almost finished scenic element, with a facade mine and the added drug store



more of the rear



Coming around to the other side of the added rear scenery







The side fiddle yard area, with the Bachmann coal/mine tipple, reworked mine into industrial building, made from LGB piers, this whole section is also removable as is the Pizza itself.



the relocated water tower. I've run out of ballast and will have to stain some more Johnny Cat this weekend, its far too cold right now, it would never dry.

Thats all for now

[Rowan]

Great work Vitto.
I particularly like the close clearances... what can be seen of them. I'm assuming they are close.

Cheers
Rowan

[Vitto]

v e r y close in fact, I have to be carefull what rolling stock I keep, only what works.

Switching to the 32" dia as my main layout ment 75% of my old roster had to go, oh well I had way too much stuff as it was, I'm still shedding stuff.

[Vitto]

Updates! The fiddle yard track is finally ballasted, and almost all the major scenery is completed



Added the speeder track siding



reconfigured part of the old mine building into an industrial/warehouse building, with the tipple in place



Need to repaint this figure into a lost biker looking at a road map



More layers of scenery added as I go



Again more scenery, more junk behind the drug store



Managed to reinsert the infamous "shell hill" episode from my childhood



Lots of activity down by the station





I was able to reinsert this nice ceramic "ruins" peice back into the layout



The top of the layout, lots of figures added in



I think I am about 90% done, all thats left is inserting additional weeds, plants and rusty junk along with maybe a few more figures and details like mining tools and a few stray dogs, well see-I'm just going with whatever feels right now.

[Tommy Two Strikes]

Quite impressive!