Badger Hill OO gauge model railway : Part 1 : Introduction

[@davidsheriff8989]

Great modelling, the old ruined castle on the hill, the horse at the water trough...atmospheric...you have great artistic skill, Gary...

[@garybooth]

Thank you! That's really made my day!

[@robridgway8574]

Simplistic Beauty with an amazing amount of interesting scenes that create a wonderful atmospheric railway. Well done and thank you so much for sharing your masterpiece

[@garybooth]

Thank you very much for your kind comments. I could hardly believe it was my layout you were describing! Much appreciated. Love your Thomas videos by the way!

[@jorgecortes9487]

What an amazingly beautiful and atmospheric layout!

[@garybooth]

Thank you for your kind comments. One or two small changes under way, hopefully a further little film in a week or two.

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Loads of interesting and well built cameos along with a homely feel and some nice trains 👍👍👍 love it!

[@garybooth]

Thanks for your kind comments. One or two small changes under way but aiming hopefully to keep the homely feel! Just taken a look at Peak Lane - fine stuff - will follow it up further!

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

@@garybooth thanks very much for looking in👍

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Just watching this again. Such a great video 👍

[@marshall8289]

Your layout is a delight, you've captured so much atmosphere. The village is enchanting.

[@garybooth]

Thanks for your kind comments, I really appreciate them. A few modifications to the village and some of the scenery have occurred since this video - the latest (and probably final) version (Part 4) is at kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2rcinaddqljqtE

[@AllensTrains]

An imaginative layout depicting the England that was traded for the petrol engine and Doctor Beeching! Thanks for uploading.

[@garybooth]

Thanks - your comment nicely captures the effect I was hoping for!

[@obadiahspong2300]

Takes me back to my childhood in the 1950s. Thank you.

[@garybooth]

I'm so pleased to hear that. Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@obadiahspong2300]

@@garybooth Newquay to Chacewater branch line, my dad fought to keep it open, but Beeching won. 🙁

[@garybooth]

@@obadiahspong2300 The same old sad story. But at least you can say you were there - that's quite something.

[@obadiahspong2300]

@@garybooth Hi Gary, just to let you know that because of your video I have invested in a Farish N gauge set and I am building a layout. Many thinks for the inspiration. I am 70 and never had a train set in my youth, though I have always been a modeller. Cheers Colin

[@garybooth]

@@obadiahspong2300 That is really great news! Good luck with the build - I'm sure you will have a lot of fun and plenty of satisfaction. Perhaps we'll get to see something of the layout on KZbin in time? Best wishes from Gary @ Badger Hill.

[@colinnewmarch1106]

Absolutely beautiful,so atmospheric

[@garybooth]

Thanks for your comment - somehow I'd missed it so apologies for taking so long to respond.

[@nerd1059]

The music really helped seal the deal on this pastoral layout. So well done and relaxing, I hope there is more to come, maybe with some sound equipped locos. Great job.

[@garybooth]

Very kind comments, thank you. There are currently three follow-up videos too, no sound locos I'm afraid (it's all low-tech DC stuff!) but some developments on the scenic side and one or two different trains running. Thanks again for your comments.

[@brianmccutcheon3205]

What a fantastic little layout, well done. Beautiful music as well. subscribed

[@garybooth]

Thanks, that's very kind of you.

[@wealdhurstmodelrailway9666]

Gorgeous! Love the buildings. The castle ruin is beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Chris @ Wealdhurst.

[@garybooth]

Thanks for your kind comments. I'm looking forward to seeing more of Wealdhurst - very envious of your long straight run for trains to really stretch their legs! (BTW the castle is just DAS clay on a card base, scribed and painted and dressed up with bits of greenery. Great fun to do!)

[@wealdhurstmodelrailway9666]

@@garybooth thank you for your kind comments! I just wish I had more time to move things on more quickly! I agree that scratch building is a lot of fun. I am in the middle of building a cattle dock which may get finished before the end of this millenia!

[@paddycoleman1472]

Very atmospheric, well done.

[@garybooth]

Thanks for your comment, much appreciated.

[@matthewbillis8911]

What a wonderful layout, congratulations.

[@garybooth]

Thank you for your comment, it is much appreciated. More to come in a week or two! Best wishes.

[@mikewood4987]

What a great layout. Thank you. I have watched all your videos now and the work you put in and all the video clips really make a small and simple layout into a joy to watch. I like elements of later videos like the farm and the fields of hay and the extension you make to the sidings from the side of the main layout. Do you just go where your imagination and skills take you? Just one question on this video... is it me or at 0:20 there is a castle on the hill in the distance but at 0:34 behind the BP garage the castle has gone? It must be that Police Box again!! :)

[@garybooth]

Hi Mike, thanks for your comments. Mystery solved - the 0:34 shot of the garage was a still taken before I had installed the castle - I hadn't spotted that one!! I do, actually, just go where my imagination (not sure about "skills"!) takes me - very little forward planning, though the curse is that I keep making changes all the time, but then that's the fun of it all. Part 6 was supposed to be the final and definitive video, but I have made a few more changes since then and Part 7 is going to be "A Day in the Life of Badger Hill" - definitely the last one, and guess what - the castle has moved again! Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@padshawjunction.]

What a lovely layout, thanks for sharing it !

[@garybooth]

Thank you for watching and commenting - very pleased you enjoyed it.

[@thedreamtommylees]

the 0-4-0s look the part. lovely layout

[@garybooth]

Hi Tommy, thanks for the comment. Yes, the 0-4--0s might just be "train set" locos but they do fit neatly on a small layout and I think they have a nice sort of light-railway, country-branch feel.

[@PaulSmith-pl7fo]

Hi Gary. I watched this video first and then the one of Castle Road. I should have read the More section of this one before asking the fate of Castle Road in the first video (LOL).

[@garybooth]

Well, thanks for watching both! I guess it was really a case of a full make-over of Castle Road being so far removed from the original that it needed a new identity. Oh for the space to have multiple layouts...... Comments much appreciated.

[@Steven_Rowe]

Not prototypical, but delightful The fact is you are an artist. Loved it

[@garybooth]

Very grateful for that kind comment! Pleased you enjoyed it.

[@Tauraco00]

Oh I wish I could live in this era forever❤

[@garybooth]

I know exactly what you mean! 🙂 New video should be along in a week or two.

[@Tauraco00]

@@garybooth great, check out my layout, step back in time👍🚂 Regards Elizabeth

[@tonydewey3023]

What a fantastic layout

[@garybooth]

Thank you! It has changed a bit since this video (there are some further videos following), but hopefully catches the same overall feel. Best wishes from Gary.

[@charlie1872]

Terrific detail

[@garybooth]

Thanks! I'm checking out Partick Hill Station - what an amazing collection of videos!

[@charlie1872]

@@garybooth Thanks Gary. I have been working hard to deliver good quality videos and am always looking for something new and interesting to talk about or present. Glad you have enjoyed exploring them👍

[@yvoheaton6402]

Well done on all counts. Very nicely put together indeed. One question if I may? I too would like to put together a little show reel of the model I have built for my Grandsons in OO gauge and perhaps another of my three little N gauge layouts. Do you do lots of short clips and then edit them together using a mobile phone camera and then some simple editing software on a laptop perhaps? Any guidance appreciated. Thank you.

[@garybooth]

Thank you, Yvo. Yes, I just record a sequence of short videos using a mobile phone, upload them onto my laptop and then compile them into a single video using the Video Editor tool in Microsoft Photos (if you have a recent version of Windows it will be in there). I did look at other video editors (eg Power Director, which is very popular) but I didn't really need anything more sophisticated. Video Editor is really straightforward and there are plenty of good tutorials on KZbin to help. One feature I found very useful was being able to add soundtrack in layers (my later Badger Hill videos have loco sounds that I added that way). A word of warning though - it always takes much longer than you expect! (But it's fun). Good luck with your videos - I hope I'll get to see them some time!

[@yvoheaton6402]

@@garybooth That is such a help and I thank you for that. I had a stroke a few years ago and technology can sometimes be a bit overwhelming these days but if at first, etc, etc. I'll get stuck into it next week and make sure I copy your name into the links so hopefully you'll see them too. Thanks again and happy modelling!

[@garybooth]

@@yvoheaton6402 Best of luck and have fun!

[@taunmarc88]

Wow, what a lovely layout. I always make my designs to complicated but watching yours I can’t believe how much has been packed in! I particularly love the halts. May I ask, how large is the baseboard?

[@garybooth]

Hi, thanks for your comment. It's a ridiculously simple layout really - just a glorified train set, but as I mainly like to just let trains run through some interesting scenery it works for me. The baseboard is 8ft by 4ft and basically has two ovals of track, with short sidings off the outer one. No fiddle yard obviously, but I keep a range of stock nearby and switch things over by hand when I fancy a change. There are three (so far) follow-up videos which each have some further tweaking of the scenics, partly to open up the space at the back of the run a little bit more - by now (November 2022) I think it has reached its final form! The most recent is at kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2rcinaddqljqtE Thanks again.

[@taunmarc88]

It would be an ideal style of layout to run my old locos which are mostly just small train set ones. I think it appeals so much to me as this is what I imagined when I first received a train set as a child. I watched up to video three so I’ll do number four next.

[@thierryds7295]

Chouette réseau! Froggy from France...😆

[@garybooth]

Thank you - merci beaucoup!

[@PaulSmith-pl7fo]

I think Marshall says it all!

[@garybooth]

Thank you!

[@stefanbattige7988]

I like it!

[@garybooth]

Thank you very much!

[@TheMerlinRailway]

2:00 TARDIS!!!

[@garybooth]

Very odd - I'm sure THAT wasn't there last time I looked...................

[@nicolascastanoperez2310]

Excelent

[@garybooth]

Thank you!