(Insert Station Here) In a Box....

More inane layout ideas from Am_Fet:

I was thinking that the Nz120 Layout Comp had gone a bit quiet recently, and I'm hoping its because everyone is beavering away on their entries.

Just to further inspire those who still don't know if they should enter or not (and lets face it, all you really need are a bright idea and a box of crayons to do the plan with), here is another little snippet that fell out of my head while dreaming up other schemes.

At the start of the year I wrote about Outram as a prototype worth modelling (see here) and decided to play around with it to see if you could still capture the essence of the station (i.e cuteness personified) and still fit it within the comp rules....and this is what I've got:



For some reason I think the rectangles are slightly big, but with a wee bit of reduction it would all fit in quite nicely.....and youd still get to model a wide selection of NZR buildings as well. As with the original suggestion, a fourth box would be used to hold a sector plate, thus keeping within the "4 boxes" part of the rules. There might be a few hassles about having a main line (in which case you'll have to lose the engine shed), but for a home layout I think it would be ace.