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Ian blames Carl Arendt:
Carl is a good friend. He won't 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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