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Emily sloping rail set.

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Thank you Drew

Yep, taking all the suggestions on board and sometimes have to adapt them to our circumstances. All very much appreciated nonetheless. I still have another plan for the shed walls, but will keep it perhaps for another video. For the mountain I was going to use a blanket, as someone else used in their videos (not sure if it was yourself or another member her). But for the lack of appropriately coloured blanket, we've decided to use all the plush toys we have. I thought that will be something different and funny to see

I have to admit that the derailed wagon wasn't intentional, and I only realised halfway through filming but decided to keep it that way. I've been thinking about our builds and video editing before and while all attempts are made to make it as good as possible, those little errors make our builds a little more realistic. I'm not a professional filmmaker, and my son isn't a master track builder (yet), so we just have to do our best while having fun in the process.

I'd love to use some background illustrations and actually had that idea before, but currently have no means of doing that. I'll try to show in one of the videos how I've painted our kids' room when we moved int. It's full of valleys, mountains, forests and a lake, as well as lots of things happening around, but it's around 1.5m above ground level, so can't really use it for rail tracks scenery. But definitely planning to do something on a smaller scale in the future.

I've realised at some point that the blue area is meant to be water, and we even had a boat for it (!), but can't find it right now. Will keep that in mind next time. And definitely on the lookout for more trains and certainly the motorised vehicles, although they seem to be very rare.

I'd love to find more suitable audio tracks that are royalty-free. We're using YouTube's library and tracks that are often used in other similar videos on channels we follow. We'd definitely like to have our own style for the music, but that's kind of difficult in finding good music in that theme.

Next video, this time shorter, of the Tomy Train Your Town set is scheduled to go live today, and I've tried something new there, so hopefully you'll like that too

Thanks for all the feedback and comments!

Thank you very much for listening and appreciating the advice (and making compromises wherever needed). I did remember how you compared the walls to the exterior of the Swindon Works and thought they would be "a perfect fit", if that's still what you intend to use them for; Looking forward to seeing what you'll do with them.

Oh, that wasn't me; I've never shown any layouts or used the blanket/towel method. I recall seeing blankets in ToyTrains4U's (and possibly Muddy Poppins') videos, but I've forgotten other major examples of them. If you were to have them, they could've been used to cover up track risers on the hills.

I didn't necessarily refer to drawn/painted scenery backgrounds, but mainly to placement of existing accessories (and a few custom ones) in ways that reflect actual places from TV episodes or Railway Series books. Going by the current situation, that should be a whole lot easier to do. The specially painted room sounds totally magnificent for it. If there's a large adult height table in there, I wouldn't expect problems with the scenery in relation to track sections or actual circuits; Back when the TV Series was filmed instead of being CGI, the sets were mounted on large tables in massive studios with similar painted walls (albeit only with skies and clouds). Many fans have replicated that in various ways with varying results. It shall be equally wonderful to see the room once it's revealed, as well as any small scale variants of the idea.

That wasn't really a boat, but a barge named Bulstrode. He never had anything to do with Cranky and was only used in merchandise because there are no sentient cargo/passenger ships. In fact, he was beached forever only a few minutes after his only appearance. Good luck finding the other motorised characters (and the generic road vehicles).

It's been a busy month and while we had some summer here in the UK, various little jobs in the garden and around the house took over. Despite managing to film some layouts, I lack the time to cut and upload. But finally did a video of our recent FB pickup.



I'm planning to cut and upload the second 'Plarail' video with the new Japanese trains we've picked up some time ago now, and also a mystery Tomica purchase for my son's birthday in the next week or two. Hopefully I'll have some time, but if the nice weather returns I'm not going to complain either

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By the look of your son's already constructive mind, it won't be long before he won't need you to help build these sets Bijo. How old is he

I've noticed that as well. He's just over 3 yo. Up until recently he had trouble working out how to flip a turn piece if I wanted him to turn it the other way. He was spinning it along the X axis to find out the notches don't align. He's got that worked out now We need to dismantle the big layout we have upstairs and I'll let him loose with a bunch of tracks to see what he comes up with now. He could either build them in a circle or a long snake-like track. Would be interesting to see how his railorad layouting skill improves.

He had a lot of fun with this becuase of the sounds the engine makes.

Oh, dear!
Memories, sweet memories! 
That TNA Magic Rail Set was actually the very first Tomy/Tomica World set I bought many many years ago! It was very affordable, even with the customs &tc. Then I bought another one and 2 Knapford Stations. And so the story began... 

Haha, our story has began with one of my Facebook purchases

As for my son's age, it reminded me that when he had his birthday last month, I came up with the idea of making his cake themed. My wife made the base, I did the decorations


 

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The cakes look delicious and he had two? I love watching the children playing with these trains and I can't wait to see him 'let go' to build whatever his mind comes up with. Thanks for sharing with us Bijo

Man, I kinda miss train themed birthdays! My son had a pretty good run of 3-4 years but last year was Roblox and this year was Star Wars. At least he still like trains!