I Made an Inglenook Model Railway Layout 

The countdown to Wib's inevitable Lamenters themed railway set has started.

Not a model train person myself, but I am a Wib kinda person...I love hearing people talk about things they are interested in.

To cover up the electrical connection, a lot of shunting yards have a little shed for the shunters or drivers to stand in when its pissing it hard with rain and your train is a long way off. A little shed would cover the connection and could be removed for maintenance/repairs.

As my Warhammer focused younger brother always comments on my model railways... "It needs more skulls!" Great little project, be warned though model railways grow, not always in size but most often in detail 😁

The urge to build my own little train thing grows every time I see you post something. You build yourself a mighty fine shunting set up there!

For what's worth coming from a random stranger on the internet, I'm rooting for you having all the space you need for whatever diorama you want. This all is honestly heartwarming.

We need to have an episode where snipe reviews your train stuff

Nice work! For your first layout that looks superb, the inglenook is a really great project for modellers who don't have much space. Well done 👍

Leagues of Voltann land trains confirmed.

I had small train set as a child and I'm fairly sure my dad's train set is still in his attic. But I am fascinated by the idea of a T-gauge train set. T-gauge is absolutely tiny, from japan and aimed at the hobbyist with limited space, after seeing your video, I wonder how much of a layout one could do on a similarly sized shelf.

It’s interesting to see what techniques overlap between this and warhammer - the ballast caught my eye for this especially. I could see glueing sand or other ground textures in the same way the ballast was done.

Nice one, you shunter! My partner and I have been quietly collecting bits and gubbins for several years, for our own 'fantasy train layout'. Like you, we don't really have the room for it. But we do have more than enough loot stashed for something like your swanky new layout. Really should be getting on with that - cheers for the inspiration!

The darker green flock for the grass looks nice in my opinion. Gives it a mildly stark feel, like any bit of green next to a train line in the West Midlands might be. It's oddly homely to me :p I honestly wish I had something more insightful to say Wib. I'm not a train person, but seeing you relive a childhood passion has been genuinely heart-warming to watch :D

As someone who's slowly selling off their Warhammer collection, it's nice that there's still things on this channel that I can come back to. I wish you the best of luck with your railway shenanigans.

MOAR! Could you put the power doo-dad in a little signalman's shed or something to hide it when not in use?

"It's not based on any livery" Other than Thomas the Tank Engine?

Inglenook Shuntingpuzzle sounds like a rejected Princess Bride character...

This is so cool. I got into OpenTTD a few years ago, and keep thinking how cool it would be to build a shelf around my office walls and build a railway around it. I never thought to do just a single terminal.

Well that signal box really gave me nostalgic flashbacks to my childhood, as I had the same building albeit in a different colour scheme on my childhood Hornby set. And the Mighty White branding on that truck was an unexpected reminder of my teenage years in the '90s!

I took a picture of each car, glued to cardstock, and use that for the puzzle. Just shuffle the cards and you are ready to start

God this video gives me flashbacks to when i was like 5/6 years old. Me my dad and my brother had this massive board we built and painted and made a big oval track for it. I had a lot of the trains you have plus some fancier ones we got for our birthdays. Good video wib! love it!

Great work. Spray adhesive or dilute PVA glue on the grass areas you want to lightening and sprinkle on some burnt grass fine turf and you'll be surprised at how good it looks to break up the dark colour. Happy Modelling. 👍

Thanks for that. Triggered a lot of Happy memories of my Dads interest in Model Railways.

Smokey Joe = Daemon Prince of Nurgle

Nicely done. I built one recently as well, though in N-scale. I found putting the power connection at the extreme left end of the layout, the bridge end on your layout, helps hide it. You also could build a little shed or pile of ties to hide the connection. Of course, you haven't finished as you can always add more details. A car for the operator in the tower, cattle or sheep in the field or some people to populate the are. Cheers!

I also wish to suggest you print out some paper to use as the backdrop. No worries for damage, and you can either tape it to the shelf or use cardboard as a sort of stand

For a little shelf display piece, I think you've done an amazing job. Great video and looking forward to whatever video your fancy takes next.

Translation note. "Pap e yay mash shay" is english for Paper ma shay

Jolly good show from Pennsylvania, the "Duracell" tanker is boss!

If you do get to building the larger model railway, it might be worth including an interchange track off the edge of the layout that you could connect this Inglenook layout to!

that is a nice looking siding. Switching or shunting you across the ocean like to say is the heart and blood of railroading. You can run all the large road trains you want, but they dont help anyone until they get switched at an industry.

Rather nice and inspiring video. I think they layout looks good as is, but if you personally want the brighter green, go ahead. For something like a shunting layout, a power track is handy as you can easily disconnect the power source for storage and thus not damage wires, etc. Plus, it can easily be covered over with a small lineside hut. 3:25 I love the "going back to preschool" style of model making. Recently, I made some woods for my Middle-Earth table, and it felt like an episode of Blue Peter. 😅

So this is the episode where we discover that Wib is an acronymn standing for "Whimsy is Based"

Neat trick I learned from an armor modeler, you can also get PVA to sink into basing material better by putting isopropyl alcohol on the area first. The important thing is you just want to break the surface tension so the PVA glue sinks into the material rather than congealing on top.

I was a doing a run on FTL, a roguelike video game, and I got so distracted and delighted by this video I died.

I kept seeing that SPIERS carriage in the lineup and thinking it said SPIDERS - if I ever did make a little diorama like this that's exactly the sort of sight-gag I'd be putting everywhere I could, lol.

i love watching these videos with a cup of tea

Man I _never_ cared for trains and all it took you to get me interested was 40 seconds. Nice.

Might be worth checking out nearby model railway clubs until such time as space allows you more than an inglenook puzzle (which is great in itself). Could be the best way to get a feel for where the hobby is and maybe learn some useful skills. If you learn electronics for model railway projects you'll probably find doing things adding leds to warhammer a doddle by comparison.

Now this is something to get behind! My Dad has wanted a set for years, but he doesn't have the space (well, strictly speaking he does, but it might get a bit annoying for my mother😂). This however might be enough to let him have a half way house! Awesome idea and great video ❤

Peco wired fishplates are the answer to the unsightly power blob. But that means fitting them at track laying, before ballasting and making a hole in the surface for the wire to pass through. Also, some sort of feet on the board bottom wouldn't hurt, makes it easier to pick up.

My favourite House Robot from Robot Wars, whenever anything happens: 10:18

Very neat! I love the idea of making a little display that's also a functional puzzle. Awesome work.

A messed up train yard would look sick 4 a 40k setting

I remember my older cousin used to have a circle of rails (I'm not sure that's the correct way of saying that but hopefully you get my meaning) mounted on a piece of plywood the size of 2/3 of a standard door. He stored it behind his wardrobe. It was very practical, took up practically no space, and hooking it up for play took like two minutes. Obviously, it had no miniature houses etc - just rails. I was thinking about doing something like that for my old model train. Another idea was to do the same thing but actually putting the ground and miniatures on it - and then storing it on a wall, hanging like a big poster. I think it's perfectly doable. You could even put a plexiglass lid on it so it doesn't gather dust. The obvious downside is that with that thing on a wall everyone who visits would immediately know I'm into miniature trains - but let's be real, I'm also into Big Hairy Spiders, so for most onlookers miniature trains are a big step up. (I'm a bit self-conscious about my various interests like models or LEGO and I've discovered that also having a bunch of hairy spiders works wonders to warm up people to things in my flat that AREN'T spiders. The "Thank god it's not spiders"-effect, if you will.)

YAY! Very happy to be one of the commenters on the last video to suggest this and it’s brought us to this wonderful video, looks ace, well done!

So might I suggest recreating the Trolley Problem with some Lamenters; Or a battle over the privatisation of the railways, featuring Gazkhull as the Head Tory (obv).

With the power connector, I always found that putting a little shed or other scenic detail over it can make it fit in.

Wib: "I've got some shunting to do". Me: *shudders from memories of the film Society*

For both your and our sakes I really hope you can make a full layout before too long Wib!

this refills me with the urge to get back to my garden railway, waiting for finances to catch up with my ambition is a chore, but its gunna be worth it!

Amazing work. These videos give me something to talk about with the train guys at the hobby shop where I work.

This is a heart warming little project to see!

Static grass is so fun, but good luck doing something that large 😂

I love seeing this. Hopefully you get to explore more model railroading in the future. Possibly a Timesaver switching layout?

I’m not into model trains but it’s always fun when my railway job has relevance outside of work

Excellent work Wib. Nicely done!

Lovely!

This video was just... absolute tonic for the soul. A++

flipping delightful!

this was great, I love checking out model train sets!

You have inspired me to do a similar project with my trains! Thank you.

Wib's "Train(ing) Arc" is going well, it seems.

Shunting flip !

I'm loving these train videos, defibatly bring me back to childhood (had an ho set and friends dad had a full train table)

Hot new train content just dropped 😍. I love the usual content you guys put out but there is something about model trains that touches some ling dormant piece of my soul.

I’m not really a train person but for some reason I’m living this mini series. You could continue it on wib does stuff if you want and if you get sense that people enjoy it as much as I do.

From someone who knows little of model trains, but who has messed around with 40K scenery a lot - have you considered hiding your controller connection by incorporating it into the bridge? Cut a notch for the plug-in point and you can mask it off nicely.

Brilliant video!

Great little layout! I plan on doing something like this in the future, seeing that in our current house I got no space for a layout, unlike in our previous one. Also luckily I have old Märklin locks from my grandfather, and I also bought a lot of stuff when I had the space for it previously, and so I have a DB class V60 switcher lok, which can unhook automatically when I reverse the lock. So no need to manually fiddle with the couplings.

My mental health's just hit rock bottom, thank you for your videos they have stopped me doing something stupid

9:51 - tank engine’s just missing the face on the front. 😉

That's a nifty little layout, I'm digging it. On the subject of soldering-it's really a pretty simple skill to pick up for at least basic wiring work, and a soldering iron is a generally handy hobby tool to have around for a great many hobbies, so may be something worth pursuing in the future if'n ya get the hankering. Also, would possibly lead to my hitherfore unbeknownst need for a Wib/Big Clive crossover video…

Love it!

Thank you Wib

Idk why but I always found model trains incredibly charming

This is a first attempt? It looks awesome, the full layout is gonna be off the chain!

Nice I would be happy with that

More wib train content! I love it!

It is very strange seeing my job being someones hobby. I've done this exact puzzle in yards (generally, digging repaired wagons out of a cripple road) The trick, is to do it in the LEAST number of shunts and breaks. We can cheat sometimes because we can put stuff onto the mainline and bring it back into the yard via the same entrance (a short shunt)

I'm at 1:11 and stating my guess that the puzzle is some variation of the Tower of Hanoi.

I like the build, I have a lot of OO/HO stuff i am going to make into a steampunk War rig style layout and running gear.

So neat!

there is a more advanced version of an Inglenook which plays around with both wagons and coaches, but that's definitely something that requires a lot more pre-planning to put together, both in terms of how you build rakes and you also need to use coaches that are the same length as a a multiple of the wagons (ie, 2 wagon lengths or 3 wagon lengths). That'd be how you could do a small shunting puzzle that also uses passenger stock.

Well that was a nice and relaxing video for a Monday afternoon

TRAINS FOR THE TRAIN GOD! Just kidding. More Train content pls!

first attempt... this works *far* better than the one I have, I noticed a distinct lack of nudging the thing to get it to move for one. also looks really good, mine has ballasting, in some areas, trouble is its a bit bigger (4'x2'6") and as such tends to attract clutter nicely done though

Eyeing the shelves behind me in my study and worrying about my finances.

Very nice as usual, I think model railways will be my old person hobby

ah, the trains of Hanoi

The livery is GWR - Great Wibble Railway. 😆

Superb

Oooh. Delightful. And excellent map if you ever play a train-adjacent rpg.

What a lovely, cosey video!

Oh it’s so cute!!

Just put a small bush, or a SHRUBBERY on top and around the electric element to cover it up, done

That is a gorgeous little idea for a setup. Consider my non-model-train mind blown.

Has Wib done the hobby equivalent of drinking from the wrong grail? His hobby tastes are aging at an accelerated rate! Next he’ll be down the park with an RC plane! I’m being a snide arsehole, I’d quite happily watch anything Snipe and Wib turn out (and I really like model trains).

Nice layout I positioned my power track panel under a bridge at the end of the layout so it cannot be seen

Now to combine model trains with 40k.