Autorentext
Graham Goodchild has been making models for a hobby for over sixty years and learnt the art of draftsmanship and design as a boat-building engineering apprentice. He subsequently worked in production planning and design in the marine industry, and as a cartographer and traffic management officer for local authorities. Graham has designed many models that have appeared in British and US hobby magazines, and two of them were featured on national television in the UK and on the BBC World Service. Graham is the author of several books on constructing radio-controlled and scale display models. He designed and built the folding portable layout featured in this book as a retirement project.

Klappentext

In this fascinating book, the author describes all aspects of how to build the folding case and how to construct the layout within using lightweight materials such as rigid foam.  Gauge sizes and design considerations; modelling materials, tools and adhesive are all covered.  The author highlights some of the most remarkable features ofthe layout and shows the reader how to cosntruct and install a working cable car, moving road vehciles, a revolving children's roundabout and a helicopter with motorized rotor blades.  He also demonstrates lighting effects using LEDs and fibre optics.

Zusammenfassung
Determining where and how to store a model railway when it is not in use can be difficult, especially if space is limited; a folding railway layout can be the solution to this problem. In this book, the author describes all aspects of how to build the folding case and how to construct the layout using lightweight materials such as rigid foam.