SERIES 6: Building a TT:120 Model Railway - Part One | The Foundations 

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I love the look of TT. It looks more realistic than OO with the correct scale track width. Very nice!

It was great to see this layout in the "flesh" today at the great electric train show, it's a lovely layout and I'm amazed at the speed you managed to get this together. The only thing I would say is you might want to consider turning the layout 180 degrees at shows and putting the viaduct at the front. Having the higher baseboards, although an advantage to adults, meant my 7 year old and the wheelchair user we were with couldn't really see the layout from the station side. There wasn't room to get the wheelchair to the dropped baseboards at the back which would have allowed a viewing angle from lower down.

Fantastic work guys and such a lovely bunch of people 👍 cant wait for the next video!

Great work as always guys, super informative and great detailed guides James

If you watch Sam's trains he shows all differences between all gauges a great series welcome tt120 nice for smaller homes !

Great work as always looking forward to seeing g the layout tomorrow

Great video guys, looking at starting a layout myself so this has really helped me,having a break from scale modelling need a new challenge.thanks for the great ideas/tips 👍🏼👍🏼

Great little layout it turned out to be too! 👍

For the wiring I push the wires up through the board before then trimming and cutting, then you dont need to cut untl you have them where they need to be underneath

really informative, thank you so much

Looking forward to this.

Great video guys.

TT has been around here in east germany for a long time, Tillig and Piko beeing the main sellers, they also have bigger selections of track and such on the market. . .

I have just finished watching the TT;120 video. Phew, Mike... you must slow down to let the subtitles produce english words! Thanks to Mark for being a relief speaker. I am sure that the layout will look wonderful despite the points mentioned. Best wishes. John.

yeah I play with Z scale, and the smaller you go, most peoples instinct is to make smaller layouts, but really you want to go wider curves and longer running with more scenery.

This is brilliant 👌

I wish I'd seen this before building my last / current baseboards.

go to wickes and you can get the 9mm ply already cut to size off the shelf

dremels quick release cutting discs dont tend to shatter if they snag far better quality

Just an idea, but would be cool to make a working boat up and down the canal, using one of the systems for moving cars. Could use an elevating/lowering floor (or water) for the the middle of the lock and animated lock doors. Just a thought. haha

This video is amazing. Thankyou so much. The only think that would make it better is if I could hear more clearly about the name of each product you use. Obviously TT is quite new so it can be hard to find these products.

The work that is put into the railway layouts is amazing. So why is it Hornby and others always make the track in chrome and not a rust colour as tracks are?

Fab

Good job

Merry Christmas 🎉

You can use tillig tt or kuehn tt gauge track not just hornby and peco track.

Taken me ages to get around to watching this video. Can confirm, the Hornby code 80 and Peco code 55 track aren't quite compatible. Hornby's rail's base is slightly wider than peco's, so Peco fishplates don't fit hornby rail, and Hornby fishplates aren't yet available separate from the track. My TT:120 layout under construction, Birdforth, is formed of 2 4'x3' non-scenic end boards of a double track return loop (although the ends are separate), and 2 4'x1' scenic middle boards of a quadruple track line. And it's set between York and Thirsk at around 1980, as if Birdforth had gained a station instead of Pilmoor and Sessay, and it had lasted post-Beeching, so is up slow, up fast, down fast, down slow. So is actually a 2-track loop, squished together in the middle. But is being built so the end boards can be swapped out and a fiddle yard added along the back to be a 4-track line in the future when more is available (and the option to add more boards between 2 and 3 to make it longer if I want). I'm using 9mm ply, with 2x1 for framing (no crossbeams though), with folding down legs (boards 1 and 4 have 2 legs, board 2 has 1 leg, board 3 has no legs as it rests on 2 and 4), with the modeltech baseboard joints. And all the wires are 7/0.2, but soldered to the underside of the rails after removing a small section of webbing between the sleepers. 5 months in, I have all track laid and wired, backscenes on, and the scenery has started with the bridges at the scenic breaks under construction currently. But most will be done after christmas, when I have more of my scenic materials from my old 00 layout available to me. Work has been generally slow because I don't have a dedicated space for the layout, so I've been building it at club about once a fortnight, and doing other bits on my bed... I'm fortunate that Birdforth's first exhibition isn't until June (not only because of how much work is left to do on it, but also because of Hornby only having the blue 08 available for my era so far)...

Very nice.

super 👍👍👍👍👍

at 52:55 how do you fill in the gap where there aren't any sleepers? i have always struggled with this.

You forgot to follow your own advice to use eye protection when cutting the track rail with the Dremel rotary tool!

On the Modeltech track aligner website it looks as if you can use the item on an angle, and it looks as if you have used it at an angle on the TT layout. It looks to me that the aligner would overhang the end of the board. Does this cause a problem when transporting the boards. ie do they get damaged?

If that timber is from a DIY store ,ie begins with the letter W or letter B ,wish mine was straight like you are using ,have had some awful timber in the packs then having to mess around taking back to exchange ,perhaps I should go and say my order is for Hornby lol ,looks good what you have done .

bit of an overkill with the supports for 9mm ply you would only need the frame

TT ,3mm gauge offers advantages in terms of size,as compared with 4mm,or 2mm,in terms of detailing, but the issue i have with Hornbys TT ,is the lack of models apart from LNER prototypes....id be interested ,if there were a broader range of locos and running stock....and ive seen nothing about any expansion of their range

Shame that you aren't doing the platform in OO scale as I would definitely buy.

What size of the Modeltech joiner did you use for the TT track? I can only see HO and N gauge. Cheers Russ

I think your platform loop needs to be a little bit longer.

Hello, mybe a silly question. But why don`t you use cork or rubber under the tracks? I assume that it might be more silent . Kind regards from Germany

Any chance of a similar series with n gauge?

Hallo Ruhig mal übers Internet nach Deutschland schauen. Die Spur TT hat dort eine große Fangemeinde und im Netz gibt es sehr viele Videos dazu. Grüße Mario

see you on sunday. interested in the kits too. caroline

From Australia, I don't understand the purpose of the alignment piece????

Hi guys, I have gone on your website and tried to sign up for the free registration so that I can view part 2 of this series but every time I get an error and can’t sign up. I have emailed the website to get help but I’ve still not got a reply after a week. Any help? I’d like to sign up for a paid subscription but if I can’t even get the free one then there’s no point…

Honestly from the camera distance it just looks same size as N gauge pretty much.

Can I ask what height the top of the baseboards are please?

Looks great in TT what size would the layout be OO scale. don't like being forced to buy subscription to see the finish of the series.

How come you don't caption your content and make it accessible for everyone? :(

Got the subscription to watch the rest of this series, But I cant find it on your site. Please assist 🙏

Tt120 what is the actual scale? Is it. 1/120th scale ?

… but thats H0 or smaller, … everybody speaks about Problems, jerky run-up, shaky wagons, no scaleconform tracks, wagons and locos are not in quality scale, there are people, who lay tracks in multiple floors, they drive, brake or accelerate too fast, and there are unnaturally much tracks.

"How To's" should be free.

With all due respect, what is the point of T Gauge? N is about half of 00. Why have something in between? As a returner to modelling I looked at the space available and how much I could fit in. N was the answer, even though I have beautiful BR Flying Scotsman and Brittania in 00. Z was a better prospect but not much stock out there. TT seems pointless.... Talented guys though

Hornby - this is basically an advert for your products so how about demonetising it so I can enjoy it and consider whether I want to start a TT layout without the annoying (irrelevant) adverts?

I’m afraid I did get fed up with seeing the base board go up and down 🥱