Ascot-Guildford, ideas, comments, requests

Mole259 · Post by **Mole259** » Sat May 01, 2004 10:16 pm

I am building my first route between Ascot and guildford. For anyone who knows the route you can put your ideas comments and request here.

For thoughs who don't look up this route on a map before you think of adding comments

Mole259 · Post by **Mole259** » Sun May 02, 2004 10:51 am

i could do with some help building the buildings for my routes, any ideas?

Christopher125 · Post by **Christopher125** » Sun May 02, 2004 11:20 am

Hi Mate

Never start off with a prototypical route, you'll never finish it. I reccomend getting the abacus Route builing guide, and starting on several fictional routes to get you started. This will enable you to learn all the techniques. This is what I did for 2 1/2 years, now I am finally starting to build real routes: the Foxfield, the Lyme Regis branch, perhaps the Ilfracombe line, as well as track only routes MHR, the bodmin & wenford and another secret route (sorry for the shameless route plug). As you can see when you start, you get hooked on it

Chris

MartinH · Post by **MartinH** » Sun May 02, 2004 6:49 pm

I'd definitely buy the Abacus Route Building Guide. Don't worry too much about the buildings for now; use generic buildings and if all goes well, you can think about replacing station buildings, signal boxes etc. with new buildings at a later date. Most importantly, make sure that you choose a route that has plenty of information on it, including a gradient profile (to build a good prototypical route requires much research).

Don't let Chris put you off. My first route was the Swanage branch and that's about to go on sale!

Martin

Christopher125 · Post by **Christopher125** » Sun May 02, 2004 8:47 pm

MartinH wrote:I'd definitely buy the Abacus Route Building Guide. Don't worry too much about the buildings for now; use generic buildings and if all goes well, you can think about replacing station buildings, signal boxes etc. with new buildings at a later date. Most importantly, make sure that you choose a route that has plenty of information on it, including a gradient profile (to build a good prototypical route requires much research).

Don't let Chris put you off. My first route was the Swanage branch and that's about to go on sale!

Martin

I'm not putting him off Martin, merely advising him that 90% of the people who triumphantly say they are going to do a proto route end up dissapearing a month later because they didn't realise how hard it was, and they lose all their impetus. This is bad for all of us, as they are more than likely not going to try again, whereas people who start off gradually are far more likely to succeed. Mind you, he hasn't got a commercial company awaiting his route

(cant wait for Swanage by the way)

Chris

montylowe2 · Post by **montylowe2** » Mon May 03, 2004 9:18 am

Hi all

He's right ya know. Just mess around with Route Editor for a bit, get to know it's querks.

Regards

Richard Lowe

matthewryder2000 · Post by **matthewryder2000** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:05 am

one problem the abacus route building is for USA only.

Christopher125 · Post by **Christopher125** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:47 am

Hi

What do you mean? The ways of building a route are the same, whatever country it set in.

Chris

matthewryder2000 · Post by **matthewryder2000** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:49 am

the book sorry

matthewryder2000 · Post by **matthewryder2000** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:49 am

the book is for USA only not U.k.

Christopher125 · Post by **Christopher125** » Mon May 03, 2004 11:03 am

Hi

The downloadble one is available anywhere - have you tried there site?

Chris

mjt222 · Post by **mjt222** » Mon May 03, 2004 9:06 pm

Christopher125 wrote:Hi Mate

Never start off with a prototypical route, you'll never finish it. I reccomend getting the abacus Route builing guide, and starting on several fictional routes to get you started. This will enable you to learn all the techniques. This is what I did for 2 1/2 years, now I am finally starting to build real routes: the Foxfield, the Lyme Regis branch, perhaps the Ilfracombe line, as well as track only routes MHR, the bodmin & wenford and another secret route (sorry for the shameless route plug). As you can see when you start, you get hooked on it

Chris

Chris,

Have you done anything on MHR yet ? The reason I ask is that I am just starting this route along with assistance from Matt Carey and dont want to really duplicate any work that you are doing or have done

martin

mattcarey · Post by **mattcarey** » Tue May 04, 2004 4:12 pm

we plan to have all new buildings made by me, and try to make sure everything looks as the railway is now

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Regards

Matthew

Christopher125 · Post by **Christopher125** » Tue May 04, 2004 4:36 pm

Hi

Don't worry about it, I hadn't got to the stage of scenery placing yet. I hope to see some screenshots of it (default or UKFS?)

Chris

mattcarey · Post by **mattcarey** » Tue May 04, 2004 4:38 pm

Christopher125 wrote:Hi

Don't worry about it, I hadn't got to the stage of scenery placing yet. I hope to see some screenshots of it (default or UKFS?)

Chris

cool, me and Martin are planning to use UKFS, are you going to place the track or is myself and Martin going to do so, it dosent bother us.

We are glad your helping out mate

Regards

Matthew