45 Original Track Plans (Model Railroader), by Bernard Kempinski
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This book features 45 original track plans created by respected author Bernard Kempinski. None of these track plans have been published before, so modelers will get an exclusive look at all-new material. Plans include: A variety of scales, including HO, N, S, and O, a variety of portrayed locations, with many from the east coast of the United States, and room-sized plans to those that fill a basement or garage.
45 Original Track Plans (Model Railroader), by Bernard Kempinski - Amazon Sales Rank: #500508 in Books
- Brand: Kalmbach
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.77" h x .10" w x 8.30" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
45 Original Track Plans (Model Railroader), by Bernard Kempinski About the Author Bernard Kempinski is a freelance writer who has written more than 40 magazine articles on model railroading, many of them on layout planning, and one book on realistic, mid-size track plans. He is an active model railroader and has built many models on commission, including a 1950s steel mill and a paper mill featured in recent Walthers catalogs. A former U.S. Army captain, Bernard works as a defense analyst in Washington, D.C.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. ... Original Track Plans - Bernard Kempinski Bernie is an excellent writer as well as modeler By Mike 45 Original Track Plans - Bernard KempinskiBernie is an excellent writer as well as modeler. The title has the word “Original” and this means a lot more than simply “new” - it points to the innovative, creative, outside-the-box thinking that reinforces the slogan, “Model Railroading is Fun.” Ranging from Z scale to O scale, with some narrow gauge in the mix, the assortment of layouts is inspiring. Every layout has a primary mission - which could be a miniature landscape to view trains, a foundation for modeling structures and scenery, an accurate representation of a prototype scene, a basis for operating, or any number of personal implementation of one’s imagination. This book allows for all that, and emphasizes the general principles of good layout design.Most of these layouts will stretch and shrink to fit one’s specific space, but it is possible to chop up one of the bigger ones, or join together two of the smaller ones, to get the size you want. And, these layout scale well for different gauges. Use it as a starting point for inspiration (follow the tips given at the beginning). And when you are done, go through this book again, and pick out the tips that apply to each layout (like double-end staging) and see if it applies to yours.One thing I wish the book had were those little numbered arrows that point to the layout, telling you where the picture was taken. Also, I would like more pictures - which may be complicated by the book design - each layout gets two pages, no flipping, etc. Maybe a blog? or forum? amplifying this great book?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Wealthy Nuggets for All By Peter Koehler-Pfotenhauer This plan book holds something of value for everyone. Many of the plans can be done in a variety of scales if your space differs. All hold nuggets of design genius that help ensure that building one will be rewarding, or that you can mine them for a plan of your own devising. Bernard hits a home run with a wealth of variety in eras, scales, and themes of layouts.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Excellent inspiration, realistic about what fits, and well presented By Trevor Marshall In track planning books, it's rare that the plans can be built as presented because it's highly unlikely that the reader's space for a model railway will correspond exactly to the spaces used by the plans the layout designer presents. So, these books should really be judged on their value as inspiration for a modeler to design a layout for their own space.At the same time, the plans presented should be grounded in reality - they should have realistic curve radii and turnout sizes for the types of equipment to be run, adequate space for structures and scenes, excellent access to all track, aisles that are wide enough to make building and operating the layout comfortable, and so on.From any measure, Bernard Kempinski has hit the target. These 45 plans - never before published - present many great ideas, from small shelf layouts to empires that will fill a large basement or special purpose building. There are also some plans designed to take advantage of popular modular standards, or to be exhibited as self-contained layouts. Truly, there's something for everyone between the covers.Each plan is accompanied by a photo or two of the prototype (or prototype inspiration) and a description - about a page worth - that provides some background and highlights the key features of the plan. The plans are nicely rendered and the text is very readable - and provides just enough information to start the reader on a Google-powered adventure to find out more about the plans that most inspire him or her.I particularly like the author's introduction - and recommend that every buyer read it. In about a page, the author details his criteria for drawing plans, and they're good concepts for anyone to adopt when designing their own model railway. Those who do will find their layout gives them maximum pleasure and minimum frustration.I also appreciate that the author has presented a set of plans that cover a wide spectrum of interests.- As one would expect, there are many examples of traditional steam/diesel transition era railroading, as well as modern railroading. But there are a number of plans based around less-modelled eras, dating back almost to the beginning of railroading.- What's more, while most of the plans are of North American themes, there are plans based on prototypes in the UK, Iran, France, Peru - and even on Mars. (This last, while futuristic, is not fanciful: as the author notes, it's based on the ideas presented by Robert Zubrin in "The Case For Mars" - available through Amazon. And the author's timing could not be better, with the book's publication taking place just ahead of Hollywood's release of "The Martian").- And finally, the author has explored a range of scales - including N, HO, S and O, in standard and narrow gauge formats. (I did note some reviewers sniffing that their chosen scale has been under-represented. Beyond accepting the realities of the hobby, I think it's worth mentioning that the plans as presented are all well thought out and should present few problems if built in the scale in which they're presented. But almost all of them could also be built by bumping down a scale - so, for example, by building a plan listed as O scale, but building it in S, in the same space as the O scale plan. This would require only minor adjustments to tighten up track spacing, reduce turntable sizes appropriately, and so on. The result would be even larger curves, longer mainline runs, and more room for scenery - for a truly spectacular layout.)There are many track plan collections that feature layouts that would frustrate anyone who attempts to build them, or result in an unrealistic layout that's not very far from "toy train under the tree" status. Some designers are notorious for this. Readers of this book will not have that problem. All designs have been created with construction in mind. If I have any criticism, it's of the phrase "track plans" in the title. These are "layout designs" - because they consider everything from the placement of structures and key scenic elements, to the availability of the key locomotives and rolling stock required to bring the finished layout to life.Highly recommended!(Purchased through Amazon.ca)
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