That is some serious modeling , I love exhibition layouts and have seen many , these rate very high. Thanks for sharing.

Scratchbuilding at a whole new level , they look magnificent . And here I am thinking I am happy as a single man , Kanthima makes me question that

I really like that barn James.

Looks great James .

I have a few kits from them in N-scale including this one , they were really good priced and nice to build. You did a good job on it.

Here's mine in N-scale


And the long barn to go with it, still needs shingles.

So James , you were in Den Bosch when I still had my Bar/Restaurant in Heerlen and didn't have a layout yet . I looked up a 20 foot container , to move all my furniture and the layout to France in 2027. Including renting the container for about a month and transport ( about a 1000km's ) the price beats a moving company big time at about 1/3 of the price.  A trailer would be even less , but I would have to make multiple trips and bring back the trailer .

Curt , James , John , thank you so much . The frame in the trailer thing , the container , keeping the modules small and easy to handle , all those tips really helped . I am going to have a look at your layout threads again to get more ideas . Thanks a lot guys.

Thanks for the answers so far. Dave when I move I will be using a truck or moving van and could move the layout with me , the point is however do I break up the layout in pieces or do I build modules now with the track and structures on them to easily set up a new layout. At the moment I'm leaning towards bit by bit relaying track and scenery to modules because I have more possibilities to make the layout fit in the new train room , and besides that I think there will be less damage if I do it that way. On the other hand if I just break the existing layout in to movable sized pieces I won't have to do as much new scenery and track .

Rollin , if I do decide to make new modules it would be ones that I could easily build on shelves or feet against the walls of the new train room and then adding corners and such where I can or have to.

Hi everyone ,  2 years from now I hope to move to France when I am retired , so I have 2 years to make my layout either movable or mobile or build modules out of what I have or tear it down and rebuild there ( the latter being the last thing that I would like to do ) . Has anyone of you done the same thing , move your layout to another place and how did you do it . All information is welcome , and even greater if you have images or video's of what and how you did it.

Thanks everyone.

Quote from: deemery on February 19, 2025, 09:19:18 AMI saw some posts from Janbouli today, good to see his name pop back up. 

The weather north of James is the same.  The winds have died down a bit, which is A Good Thing. 

Our monthly lunch group meets today, so that'll put a dent into the modeling.  That's OK, I'm kinda stuck until the LaBelle order arrives with the trucks for this build.  James and I chatted yesterday for a bit about clerestory glass.  It seems there are some differences between the Ambroid version and the Northeastern version of the wood passenger car kits.  I'm still pondering how to handle the clerestory, I need to go look at the LaBelle kits I have to see how they did it.

dave

Thanks Dave , I have had problems with motivation , partly due to planning a move to France in two years to retire , I need to tear down my layout that I have been working on the last 12 years  , maybe more , and I can't get myself to doing it. I also have thoughts of taking parts of my layout and rebuilding them on modules so I can easily build part of my layout a bit faster when I move. Going to place a post about that somewhere else in the forum to see if anyone else has done this and have some tips for me.

Love the farm scene James , reminds me of days long gone by when I lived in Canada

Looking good John , have fun .

Too bad you are so far away Robert , your layout would look very good at several shows here in Europe like Ontraxs in Utrecht and the US Convention in the Netherlands to name a few. It's exactly what people like to see at shows here in Europe .

Excellent , love every bit of it.

Thanks for a wonderful build thread Bernd, with a fantastic result.