Reeves (Ypres) – a Chapter in Speculative Modelling
In AMRM Issue 234 (June 2002) I described Granite Rock, my small N scale layout based on a branch line terminus on my fictional Brindabella Railway. Since then, my personal serious modelling activities have been pretty minimal for one reason and another. An unexpected change of circumstances in 2014 though, found me with a lot more time on my hands for an unknown time. What better opportunity to get back into some modelling, I thought?
About the same time, I’d started reading a few UK-based model railway magazines, and the layout descriptions that really took my eye tended to be smaller and even micro-layouts. Not necessarily because I’m interested in UK prototypes, but more about what can be achieved when both space and time are limited.
So it all seemed like a good opportunity to try a few techniques that would be new to me, see what worked and gain some experience for my wished-for grand layout, if I ever get to that! A few goals I set myself for this were:
• It would be quick to build
• Choose simplicity over complexity
• Use it to experiment with a few ideas.
One of the things I learned from is that although it was a transportable layout, it weighed a lot – which I guess I should have expected after the name I’d given it. It was a typical plywood, 2" x 1"
