The GnATTERbox

[michael]

A day or so late but here is the place to post a couple of pics of your layout.

A couple of sentences describing it might be worthwhile

I will set the poll up on the 19th
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Regards Michael
If you believe you can make something, you can make it.

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[Peter]

Oh dear, I let this deadline sneak up on me. Looks like I've got to get cracking to finish up tonight!
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Failure is just success rounded down.

[DCRfan]

OK I'll be first. In the beginning there was three pieces of corrogated card



which became a 1:24th scale slice of pakahi (swampy area) and kahikitea (white pine) trees with a 15 inch gauge tramway to extract spagnium moss and white pine.






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Paul
Gnu Zealand

[cjwalas]

STILL WORKING!!!!
Chris

[cjwalas]

Is there a limit to the amount of photos we can post? Not that I would post a lot, but maybe four or five?
Chris

[michael]

I think that 4 would be a decent maximum.
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Regards Michael
If you believe you can make something, you can make it.

http://users.xplornet.com/~macton/index.html

[Andrew Milner]

Mine will be up later (im on the phone but chris you could always put more pics on your own thread!
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Andrew Milner, still trying to figure it out....

[Geeky Gecko]

Having trouble getting any decent shots, missed what little daylight we had today and couldn't borrow a better camera.
The layout is supposed to depict a typical, run down industrial area c.1950, with the idea I can carry any load I fancy. It splits into two sections joined by bolts, with a detachable overbridge (actually a canal aqueduct) disguising the join. It is almost entirely paper and card with some perspex, wire, elecric cable, balsa, air drying clay, and spaghetti, held together with plenty of PVA and coated with several varieties of paint.
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Stefan

[cjwalas]

My 2007 Card Challenge Layout is a Jules Verne fantasy, science-fiction secret hideout in the lagoon of an extinct volcano that houses submarine pirates and their steampunk creations.
The layout has two loops, an upper for the flying machine and housing access, and a lower one for the unloading of supplies from the sub.

I decided the challenge for me would be to use paper and card products for everything I possibly could.

The things that aren't paper-based are the tracks; two Percy chassis; four plastic trucks and wheels for the flatcars; string for the tied logs, fishing line and flying machine lines; chains for the door and diving suit; a bit of cellophane for the glass in the diving suit; and glue for all the small rivets.

The two main pieces of motive power are a steamcar taxi and a robot driven...something. I also built a third piece of motive power, an armored steamcar. I tried to add as much detail as I could, using scratchbuilt card and mache' pieces as well as downloaded printies for cargo and animals as well as Jules Verne style machinery.

There are nine figures, unless I missed one, not counting the steam robot driver.
Chris

[John New]

Apologies if the earlier lost post eventually appears (I think I previewed it but then didn't hit submit).

My challenge entry is Pebbles End, a shoe box diorama built in a day (10 hours today). 100% card other than the obvious rolling stock. Gauge 9mm and scale O9. As I had no 7mm NG rolling stock the Fairymeade Mill Cane loco kit was downloaded from the internet and has been regauged underneath to 9mm although that is not visible in the photo. All scenic aspects are my own work except for two Mayang Textures used on the base design. Materials used are 240gsm card, photo-mounting board, some corrugated card from the craft shop, watercolour paint, PVA glue and art spray mount for the backscene and base sheet. The little tippers are Jouef 009 and will run on the card rails track OK if pushed but the point/turnout is static! Location site for this imaginary railway - Ferrybridge, Weymouth & Portland. Dorset. Substantially complete but lots still to do to finish it including adding the last bit of back scene over the shed roof..





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Remembering it’s a hobby and I am allowed to smile!

[Andrew Milner]

The Arthur Crumb Mechanical Engineering (ACME ) railway is up and running My layout is 16"x18" and has a 4 layer card base mounted in a 'box' to give a backscene and to hide the motor underneath which makes the sparks for the grinder (see video on my thread http://www.forum.gn15.info/viewtopic.php?t=2703 plus some other new photos ).



The 'workshop' is a card base covered with individual bricks from watercolour paper (painted white on the inside).The roof is individual card 'tiles' painted with thick artists acrylic for texture. Corrugated fencing is also card and the other main card item is the Fordson tractor - very fiddly but worth the effort (I think )




The cobbles are das modelling clay shaped and then carved with a motor tool, painted with artists acrylics and varnished for a 'wet look' as it is meant to have been raining Streetlights are brass tube with GOR bulbs. The ones in the shop and on the telephone pole are GOW bulbs, all 12v.




I did want to use more card but I also wanted to try traditional techniques for landscape (this is my first ever model railway) so the ground is plaster painted very dark brown with various scatters and ground foam plus sisal string for grass (soaked in yellow ochre watercolour paint then hung with weights to straighten it while it dried) cut in clumps with varied height then glued on. Autumn leaves are Greenscene scatter - very good!




The backdrops were painted on to represent the site being on the edge of a built up / industrial area. Hence C.F. Booth (scrap metal - actually one of the places - in Rotherham, Yorkshire - which scraps locos ) and Nathan (Nat ) King - coal merchant . Loco is scratchbuilt on a shortened Bachmann Plymouth chassis. Figures are.......
I have really enjoyed this and actually built something for a change! Thanks for the challenge, look forward to the next one!
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Andrew Milner, still trying to figure it out....

[AndyA]

Above you will see a picture of the finished layout.

I did post a picture of the baseboard about six months ago. It is still in the same state although I did have time, on return from Brittany, to trim the trailing bits of butchers' tape. I learned last year with the Amos Gnollies, even though it gave a few people a good laugh, that rushing it to meet the deadline is not the right way for me to go. For others it may help motivation. I have motivation; I just don't have time at the moment when I can justify serious work on a layout (witness the 'boxes', that have taken four months just to get the artwork right).

Good luck to all who have either finished or are at least in a presentable state.

regards
Andy A
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gnine: less is the gnew more
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[rue_d_etropal]

3 entries, all based on box technology, built over year.

Firstly
Chateau d'Étropal


secondly
built for Portmadoc to ensure Gn15 got exhibited


and finally one built in an old bingo card box

and


all use only cardboard and paper(mashed and molded) for construction, except track and trains, althought train body in snow layout is cardboard.
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Simon Dawson,
Narrow gauge Francophile interested in 1m, 60cm,50cm , 40cm and smaller gauges . Build in scales from 1/6th to 1/24th. Also 1/32nd and 1/35th using 16.5mm track to represent 50cm and 60cm gauges.
http://www.rue-d-etropal.com

[Jon Randall]

Gerard Nyne's Plebyte Mine


The view down G.Nyne's adit



Coming out of the mine one evening, fully loaded with spoil for the tip.



Unloading at spoil tip, with the help of a tree



Back in for more hard graft, still desperate for a strike of Plebyte:







"Hope I find the Plebyte. The bloke I bought the mine off promised me there were Plebytes in this hill"
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Jon Randall

Gno dear, I'm gnot building another layout.
Ok just one more for luck.....

Size is gnot the important issue here

[bilson17]

LOVE the reedmace. are they a commercial product?

Stephen
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HOW BLOODY BIG?

[Jon Randall]

Ah reedmace, So THAT'S what it is called
No it's florists wire painted beige, with hairy (sisal?) string glued around it. Then when it has dried then dip the end in glue and coat it in dry tea leaves. It's a messy job and a bit tricky but fun and cheap
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Jon Randall

Gno dear, I'm gnot building another layout.
Ok just one more for luck.....

Size is gnot the important issue here

[MilesB]

[MilesB]

[Jon Randall]

MilesB wrote:

[Steve Bennett]

[Jon Randall]

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Jon Randall

Gno dear, I'm gnot building another layout.
Ok just one more for luck.....

Size is gnot the important issue here

[Oztrainz]