squeezing tumba - model railroad...
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How?• STEP 1 - Pick your locale and era to suit your taste in scenery
and layout operations.Done, here’s Tumba…
• STEP 2 - Limit your setting and make sure it has operating possibilities.
Hmmm…. Focus….
• STEP 3 - Pick a scale and gauge.Done, NSWGR 7mm assumed… (although… ;-) )
• STEP 4 - Get out your shoe horn.Traversers, Staging, Lateral Thinking Ahead…
• STEP 5 - Plan the details, Viewblock anything “Unhelpful”Identify and nail the “keynote items”,
and the “scene” will stand up to significant scrutiny…
STEP 1 - Assume Tumbarumba
As covered, - sprawling, - “loopy”- Barely enough action “in totality” for lasting interest
STEP 2 - Limit the setting, make sure it has operating possibilities.
• Tumba actually has at least 3 “points of interest”in scenic and operational terms, within its overall yard limits
• With suitable staging, we can emulate most prototypical train movements/shunting actions
STEP 4 - Get out your shoe horn.
• Why Compress the scene? • Why not DE-Compress the scene?
• Turnouts are space eaters,eliminate unless their operation actually enhances the scene/presentation
• Assigning specific roles to staging tracks re-inforces “beyond onstage” operations
Single-Track Traverser Staging(Simple)
• Regular “mainline + spur”
• 1-track traverser equivalent
Mainline
Spur
Mainline
Spur
“2-track Traverser with a Purpose”(Medium Complexity)
• Regular “mainline + spur”
• 2-track traverser equivalent
Mainline
Spur
Mainline
Spur
Staging Crossovers/Spurs
• Regular “mainline + spur”
• 2-track traverser equivalent
Mainline
Spur
Mainline
Spur
STEP 5 - Plan the details, Viewblock anything Unhelpful
• A “proto-based scene” can actually get away with significant “variations”, as long as the key scene details appear correct(See Jim L’s earlier presentation!)
• Get the track at Eye Level,
• If you don’t want it to be seen, block it off! TV and Theatre have known and been doing this for years!!!
“But I don’t want a un-prototypical overpass on my layout…”
• At Scale trackside eye height,even a small bush can hide a train
• Proscenium Framing guides and forces the viewer’s eyes to the scene.
• Framing is far more “visually acceptable” than the concept suggests…
Thanks to….John Lee, John Cheek,
“Shortliner” Jack Trollope, John Garaty…
In Memoriam
Carl ArendtMarch 2011
Links, Sources, and Thanks…
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