Wow, this was a surprise, what a excellent layout, and brilliant video low level angles, and the locos actually have a crew, lots of support and respect
my best bit, "my modelling skills aren't there" as a beautiful prairie pulls past the beautiful station past a wonderfully modeled fence 🤣 pull the other one fella! 😁
Thank you the sharing of your presentation. To me it looks like a piece of art. Everything is enjoyable for the eye. Among other elements, I appreciate the special quality of light and the filming.
What a lovely layout, especially from someone who's not been railway modelling for a very long time! The scenery is brilliant, well done and the trains seem to run beautifully.
Almost unbelievable that somebody, who is self deprecating about his modelling abilities, can produce a truly wonderful model railway! It is absolutely beautiful!
What you’ve achieved in such a short time ( relatively!) is pretty bloody good. Nothing jars my eye, you’ve got a Denny quality about your work where nothing is better than anything else and all the colours blend. And an overcast sky. 00 sf looking amazing. I don’t notice the 1.5 mm gauge narrowing but I did notice the trap point blade!!
WHAT A LOVELY LAYOUT ! A interesting locos and stock and the added "watch them go around, or detailed shunting" Superb ! again many thanks for sharing .
The track level views are superb, as is your layout. The Locos run so smoothly and look very realistic running through the scenery you have made. The 30s is my favorite period of Steam train modeling, you have captured the era so well. The view of the weathered 2-8-0 and wagons running towards the tunnel is stunning. Regards, Paul.
Gorgeous layout with a wonderful selection of Great Western locomotives. My embryonic layout - I’ve not yet started laying tracks as I’m not yet in my new home - will depict Ongar Station as it is today. I’m a volunteer at the Epping Ongar Railway and have great access to get photographs of the location I’m modelling.
You have a lovely railway my GWR is in the back bedroom Perth Western Australia with a narrow gauge , great fun ! You have a good eye and your track work is superb , Congratulations on a fine model
A wonderful layout, beautifully created, John. You don't give yourself enough credit. I'd not heard of Hobbytrax either so may take a look at their offerings (proving the advertising works) not that I am building a layout but do 'play trains' with the grandsons from time to time.
Hermosa maqueta. Fantastica. Me encantó. Me transporta en el tiempo y el espacio. Gracias por compartir. Beautifull layout. Fantastic. I love It. It carry me in other time and space.... Thank you for share....( I Hope you can understand my basically englsh.
Purely as a viewer, I think there is a difference - small, maybe, but noticeable. But it's still possible in 00 to have a fantastic atmosphere - as at Stoke Courtenay. Part of that is achieving the close coupling of rolling stock - which is far more noticeable than the 2mm track gauge difference. The sound dimension is another relatively new development - without which an EM or Scale4 layout can seem slightly dead. Actually working signal wires and point rodding may not be do-able in practice in 4mm to the foot - and convincing-looking moving road-traffic is very difficult; making people move will be really hard - even maybe in computer simulations! What may be possible at some point is realistic billowing steam which doesn't wreck all the hard work put into modelling buildings and scenery, and is not a health and safety hazzard! To summarise, I don't think that the accuracy of the gauge is the most important thing about a model railway. The bit that distinguishes a layout like Stoke Courtenay is that it fires our imaginations and memories - and that must be down to the brilliant imagination of its creator; just look through the appreciative comments.
@@ricktownend9144 thank you...what a lovely answer.....i hate seeing moving 'other things' on layouts as it looks childish myself !!!my fave layout on here in gowerton parkway
