02-16-2009, 11:38 AM
nomad Wrote:After discussing my track plan on another thread, I thought I should post it, so here goes. :oops:
This is ho. The table is actually two levels, with seven inches of height difference. Each level being one foot wide. The yellow line is the divider. The tables will free standing.
Not sure I totally understand your description, looking at the plan and reading what you wrote. You seem to have a room that is at least 24 feet wide and more than 20 feet long (since you comment that you have room to walk below the turnback blob at lower left).
How big a room do you really have available, and what distances to walls, doors, windows etc do you have to contend with ?
I also don't quite understand the scenic divider and those two 1 foot deep shelves separated by a scenic divider your plan.
Are you saying that your layout will be up against the left and top wall, and look kinda like two stair steps - lowest step is 1 foot deep, then a 7 inch step up, and then an upper step that also is one foot deep ?
Or are you saying that your layout stands in the middle of the floor and you can walk all around it on all four sides, so it is kinda like having two one foot deep shelves hanging on opposite sides of a small supporting wall ?
Guess what I am saying is that it is difficult to comment on a layout plan without knowing what the space the layout will be fitted into will look like, and without quite understanding what you are trying to model.
FWIW, Byron Henderson has a pretty good list of questions he asks his potensial customers before starting on a layout design for the customer. He is a "pro" in this context I guess, but the questions are general enough to be used by people who do their own design as well. Here is a link: http://www.layoutvision.com/id13.html
The Layout Design Special Interest Group (LDSIG) of the NMRA also has a pretty good primer on design considerations at their web site: http://macrodyn.com/ldsig/wiki/index.php...ory:Primer
Smile,
Stein