Landscaping and Adding A Turntable - Building the Loft Layout, part 12 

Jenni when you mentioned the loco on the turntable you told us it was the Duchess Of Montrose. Soon as you said that, my memory shot right back to the 1950s. When my brother and myself received two train sets offf Father Christmas. My set was Hornby Dublin three rail Duchess Of Montrose. You really touched a nerve in my memory bank tonight. I thank you for bringing back so many brilliant memories as I recall our pressies that great Christmas. Thank you Frank.

Hi Jenny just started a loft railway myself love your video's very informative best regards Mark Vickery

Layouts coming on a treat Jenny, who’d have thought you could landscape with melted chocolate ice cream lol

Looking forward to further developments.

You are so inspirational Jenny.

Great update video I'm going to share it to my Facebook group TRAINS ACROSS THE WORLD

Looks great Jenny, really coming along great

Great update, Jenny! The turntable was helpful because I’m planning to install a similar one on my N scale layout.

Looks fantastic Jenny and yes, great inspiration to me building my much more modest layout. Thank you.

The layout is looking very good, Jenny. Taking shape quite fast. Nice one.

Very impressive layout & progress Jenny. 👍🥂

It's looking great!

Hi Jenny, been following you for a while now and have to say, I really enjoy you’re enthusiastic approach to this hobby. Great ideas, great techniques and very entertaining to watch. Loving the jay cloth idea.. cheers for now, Chris (an old newbie to the hobby)

I've just got to say it's coming on very good well done.

Gloss really has to be sprayed to look good I think. It just comes off a brush to thickly.

Looks great! You are going really fast. On my own layout i use for the places which are difficult to reach separate modules. I make them on the table. The base is a piece of triplex or some thick cardboard and when they are ready i put them in place. And they are re-usable.

Good one Jenny.

Hi Jenny Great update, some interesting stuff.

well done like what you are donig on your layout.

On a previous layout where I installed a turntable, rather than drill through the baseboard I put the roundhouse and turntable on foam just deep enough to carry the TT and requisite wires. I didn't bother with the Meccano (shows that old still works), instead relying on the 'hand of god'. It also added a cutting for the adjacent running lines to run through.

I would build a triangle of landscape downstairs paint and grass it and then place it at the back corner which is out of reach. A bit of cleaver measuring of a large piece of foam should do it. Ballasting that rear track might be tricky though.

Great job !

Turntable. A 2RPM motor & gearbox can be obtained on line. It is 12v dc and can be used conventionally with switching from the controller, or from an independent supply. Its all metal, with excellent gearing, is an integral unit and is silent in operation (It’s NOT the “Frizinghall” (Bradford) motor & gearbox, offered by other retailers)

Hi Jen brilliant work so far inspireing me with my layout cheers Ron @Willenhall Parkway, Coventry.

Jenn geat video ,layout turning out great lovewatching your videos

Thanks for sharing, Jenny. From your demo I see that the PECO turntable would not work for me (big money saving there). However, I would also like to thank you for sharing the 'Jeyecloth' tip... That one will be really useful as I have a similar corner to fill.

Thanks for trying my method of Jay Cloths with PVA. But I use it in smaller pieces over lapping each other just like papermache, and 3 ply's thick allowing each ply to dry first. You have some huge wrinkles which I hope flatten out ok. Regards Al FH12

One concern: The bridge rail is plastic, part of the pit mold..Will it wear down over years of use / get brittle / crack ? Wish it were brass/NS rail instead. Jenny, I'd repaint the pit in an 'old concrete' or flat gray (using sponge, not brush) and add small patches of green moss in some simulated pit cracks, or down near center axle... Been of fan of yours, years. M, Los Angeles

hi jenny issue with reaching corner, might be worth building modular hill/rock face and just placing a finished article , balasting could be a bit trickier tony

Excellent video. Your woodworking and scenery are wonderful Can’t believe that you are doing it so quickly. Stay with it. The turntable and lead in tracks look really good. Will you still use a manual table or decide to electrify and index the tracks? Looking good.

Hills of chocolate mousse? That sounds like something from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Nice video. I've watched a few of yours and think I've commented too. Thought it was time to subscribe. Hope that turntable works well for you.

Nice layout, but how do you clean it?

Could you build a diorama for the far corner that you could just drop in?

I have found that Humbrol Matt paints are very poor now, 'Revell' Matt paint is much better. Great work with the turntable. Michael

Hi Jenny I used Locomotech's motor and it is really good. Its silent and powerful and comes with indexing for 5 roads as optional. Its pretty easy to fit but is best done before fitting. Can be done after but obviously more fiddly. See here www.goldcoastmodelrailwayclub.com/motorising-a-peco-turntable.html

14:13 From here it looks violate, not brown.

It seems that your arms aren't as long as you thought! :-)

Did you think about using expanding foam for your corner hills? Spray it and then cut to shape.