New Designs: The One Where We Spell Someone's Name

A friend of ours used to come over to our house to get his fill of plastic trains every once in awhile. He recently moved to the mainland and since then has been asking for more pictures. We just moved into a new place ourselves, and one with carpet. Making new layouts on carpet hasn't been a great experience as the pieces are constantly fighting with you try to straighten them out. But, he's been a patient guy and a new design has been a long time coming.



Based on our logo, we designed the base layout. The difficult thing with spelling words out, is that you end up with a bunch of dead ends. It's not a real layout if you can't close it up and seal the deal.



Here's the after shot. The layout's been closed up, and the pathways tweaked a little bit to connect up. This one ended up being a lot larger than any of our previous layouts, using up all of our straight track. There's no way we could have built something this large at our old place.

Closing up the track also blurred some of letters together, but hopefully you can still read it.

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