With the larger layouts temporarily on hiatus, I am planning to keep my skills going on the workbench with a little something I’m hoping to make as a portable display layout http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Large%20Scale%20Pizza%20layout_BTS_2008.pdf A 3’-0" square “micro” layout, a pizza layout by definition, utilizing the old xmas tree base layout I’ve had for a couple years now. The old plywood base with its hand bent rail will become the portable Borracho RR display, with handlayed track, blue foam “mountains” and a small town of very small, detailed structures climbing the hill over the track. It will have detachable legs and felt pads so it can either be freestanding or set on a tabletop. It will be based on a very small HOn30 micro-layout I built a while ago. Its designed to be portable by myself alone, in my current car, hence the 36"square size, anything larger would be unmanagable to carry and would realisticly require a larger vehicle to transport.
If it comes out like I hope it should be a nice draw where ever its set up…progress pics when I can 
Some current pics Overall view, ties are 3/8 x 1/4 basswood cut down, to be stained after placement. the tunnel portals are from the indoor layout.
Close up of track and ties, I’ll be using Micro Engineering 3/8" spikes and I will spike every tie, I have an Aristo track gauge and will use the max gauge setting as the ultra tight curve tends to need additional wiggle room for the wheels. Nothing is glued down except the corkbed; I’ll begin gluing down the ties tonight.
I have blue foam for my “mountain” and the portals need some reworking, but first comes track laying!
