Hoonville, my Kiwi country town build

[driva137]

This is my proposed Kiwi country town build "Hoonville".
I need to make it fit on a 9'x8' ply base.

This is the basic layout, i have made custom R1 single lane intersection off ramps to save space at the pitlane entry/exits i'm using for my intersections.

Hoonville township and the Hoon highway, i should be able to save some more space here.

Subie rd, the gravel country road, my favourite feature, i can halve the size of the loop at the farm at the end of the road.


Suggestions and advice needed please, this will be my first permanent track build.
Subie rd and Hoon hwy will be slightly elevated and undulating.
Scenery and buildings will be attempted after i get the track to a drivable state.

A Hoon

[Ember]

There's definitely some massive scenery building potential in this. My only concern is how on earth you're planning on getting at anything that deslots in the village?

[HomeRacingWorld]

I was just thinking that same thing. You might want to do a good mock up on your track surface with some paperboard structures/track. Basically what many model railroaders do. Checking to see line of sight, and that ability to get the car when it comes off. Normally a good rule a thumb is where there is a curve, there will be be a de-slot. And I am thinking with this design you might become very busy.

[Ember]

You've given yourself a long reach to the centre.

[dreinecke]

Looks like fun but I agree with the others - very hard to reach any deslots. It would offer significant scenic opportunities though!

[driva137]

Thank you for your feed back everyone, i realize that i'm breaking the 1m from center reach rule but on my current setup we can reslot comfortably up to 72" with my trusty walking stick on the current setup 8'x4', driving position to hairpin is 69".
I took your advice and made a mock up of the 2 intersection straights (Hwy section is 81" top to bottom and 102" side to side) which means the gravel section can only occupy 15", i can add 6" by replacing the bottom R2 with an R1 to give the gravel rd more wriggle room.

Perhaps i could get rid of the left hand intersection and add a single lane town block similar to the gravel rd loop ?

This should drop the depth of the layout maybe ?

Any thoughts or suggestions ?