Ian Holmes' Gnine Pizza

The late Carl Arendt can take the blame for this. He was a good friend and I'm sure he won't mind mind if I blame him/ acknowledge his inspiration for this layout. I've often admired the many Pizza layouts seen in the small layout scrapbook at carendt.us. I've thought its something I should do in some way shape or form. With the development of gnine I felt I needed a test track to test the running of my locos and stock before I got around to building a layout proper. So one afternoon I tacked a couple of lengths of N gauge flex track to an offcut of 1/2 plywood on a 9" radius curve, ran trains around it and didn't give it another thought for a few weeks, nay months. Then Carl sent me a picture of his "El Jefe takes a ride" pizza. I was instantly shamed into action, and I do mean instantly. Moments after seeing the picture I glued some ballast around the track and while that was drying searched through my bits and bobs box for some scenic doodads. Next I slapped some Woodland scenics ground colour onto the baseboard which soaked straight in. Then I painted that with Woodland scenics scenic cement sprinkled some of thier ground cover foam ontop and waited for it to dry. In my bits and bobs box I found some old trees, you needn't guess who manufactured them. Some sections of brick wall that used to be on Whinny lane and then for the heck of it I threw the Whinny Lane platform shelter on there too. I cleaned up the track and TADAH!!! a scant two hours after I received Carls email I had a finished Pizza. Its great to have to run in my locos and much better to look at than a plain old piece of board. I can't believe how quickly it all went together. I had a great deal of fun just throwing it all together.




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