About a month ago I posted some mock-ups based on concepts for my 23.5" x 15.5" cork board baseboard. I was rather pleased that I could cram in a two-coach length loop in the space and felt that this could be the path to an interesting project.
Further thoughts about practicality (bah!) have now made this version of the scheme less likely. These are partially borne from the desire to have something that can be operated from the front at home, using slide-switch control of the points. The issue is the point on the right, I've sketched in the switch in red and it is close to the edge of the board. So close in fact that having any scenery to hide a notional 'hole in the sky' from the front view is almost impossible...
The point can be moved in a couple of inches but of course that shortens the loop down and my two coaches don't fit. Well, those two don't, a couple of 4-wheelers would but that wasn't the idea... The board could be extended but (to me) that defeats the idea of a cork board layout a little (I was only just warming to having a run-off). A new board would be better but then things just start to grow!
Talking of taking extending boards too far, I shared this idea on NGRM Online recently for an extended 'Odsock Corner'. Now I do have a little regret that I made this square (ish) and that perhaps the 13" x 19" of my 009 layout is a better size. It is of course too late to change it, taking up half the circuit and scenery and adding an extension to the rather odd woodwork would probably cause instant loss of enthusiasm if nothing else.
Colin
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