This is a WEELIE good idea

[crackingjob]

Found this by accident Googling (the Doctor says I have to stop it or I'd be arrested)............ Google 'Akubi Lightweight Railway' and go into 'Forth Stage' and select 'Stars in Special Open day' and scroll through to 'Mr Inoues workshop'.
The whole site looks fun and instructive....but Mr Inoues Wheel Layout is a great idea.....putting scenery in the centre the view will for ever change......
Crackingjob

[B 67]

Not a bike wheel, but here's one I prepared earlier. About 10 years earlier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVYcmsFYQCs

[JoeCool]

Thats was different.. what brought that idea to life?

[crackingjob]

WOW....there is always another somewhere...never anything new under the sun etc.....but just what i was thinking about...must try it
Crackingjob

[adrian]

G'day all
As Crackingjob says there is nothing new under the sun.
In the 1980's a couple of us built a rotating layout called "Escape Island" in HOn9.
Did fairly well on the exhibition circuit for a number of years.
Then a few years later a friend the otherside of town built two rotating layouts.
One was horizontal but the second was vertical........a sort of mini rim world.
The vertical one had the track on the inside of the rim and the train was powered by gravity....ie it just gravitated to the lowest point !
So not the first and certainly not the last !
Cheers
Adrian

[B 67]

Agree about the "nothing new" comment. And I certainly didn't mean to imply that I was the first to do it. I had the idea for such a layout long before I built it, but had never seen a revolving layout before I built mine. Still, I found out later that they had been built and was not surprised by that.

Mine was built on an old shop display turntable that had a mains outlet fitted to the turntable. So easy to power the layout through that. It was this that gave me the idea to build a layout on top. Just took me around 6 years to finally start. The layout was finished in a few weeks. The train is powered by a radio-control power pack. Just a standard 12v DC model railway controller. Just it has a hand-held radio controller to operate it.

[crackingjob]

Nothing New....some Cave Man was first....talking of Cave Man or my skill level...but how did you get the track into such a small circle
Crackingjob

[G-man]

I think I might go for an 0-27 loop like this wirh one of the K-Line speeders on it. That would be cool.