Post by runamuckchuck on Nov 19, 2024 13:56:39 GMT
Most of the permanent layouts are either large/massive enough to accommodate a number of different vignettes/themes such as residential/industrial/retail/country/urban to tell a story or establish a specific space or place in time. For special occasions such as Christmas or Halloween, the permanent layout may simply run a holiday themed train, or add holiday decorations to the existing structures just like in real life.
What I am pondering is a little different and likely a lot more difficult/labor intensive.
The idea is to have a base line (for want of a different term) layout component of a town, residential area, commercial area and have the other section(s) of the layout be convertible to Christmas/Halloween or AEC. It was really the AEC that got me thinking about this as how do you integrate that kind of a theme into conventional layout?
I did this sort of thing Halloween and Christmas wise last year on a temporary layout but it was very labor intensive especially the switch over from Halloween to Christmas. The idea of having a more modest sized permanent layout of the base theme to which you add portions in a semi modular basis that is scratch built so to speak with every switch of themes has occurred to me.
Has anyone done or thought about doing something like this who would like to comment?
What I am pondering is a little different and likely a lot more difficult/labor intensive.
The idea is to have a base line (for want of a different term) layout component of a town, residential area, commercial area and have the other section(s) of the layout be convertible to Christmas/Halloween or AEC. It was really the AEC that got me thinking about this as how do you integrate that kind of a theme into conventional layout?
I did this sort of thing Halloween and Christmas wise last year on a temporary layout but it was very labor intensive especially the switch over from Halloween to Christmas. The idea of having a more modest sized permanent layout of the base theme to which you add portions in a semi modular basis that is scratch built so to speak with every switch of themes has occurred to me.
Has anyone done or thought about doing something like this who would like to comment?
