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Offline Fille  
#1 Posted : 18 October 2025 20:12:10(UTC)
Fille

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Hi all.
My name is Felippe and im about to order my first modelrailroad starterset. Märklin digital H0.
This will be my first time with modelrailroading, im a scale modeler And i wanted to do something more interactive.

Im playing around with SCARM and trying to learn it and But i have some errors. some pieces dont line up exactly.


MarklnTest3bb.jpg

Thank you.




Offline rbw993  
#2 Posted : 20 October 2025 15:17:39(UTC)
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Hello Felippe,
Welcome to the forum. I used SCARM to design my layout, Immensee, also a topic on the forum. Don't worry about small misalignments. There is enough "play" in the track that will allow assembly.

Regards,
Roger
Modeling Immensee, mile/km 0 on the Gottard. SBB Era V.
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Offline Fille  
#3 Posted : 20 October 2025 17:48:45(UTC)
Fille

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Thank you Roger. This was driving me crazy 😃🍻
I will check out your thread. its great to see how people build and design their railroads.
Offline Copenhagen  
#4 Posted : 20 October 2025 22:33:58(UTC)
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While some misalignment still can be made to fit without problems I'm a bit worried about the gaps on the left side of the layout. I have done a lot of fiddling with scarm to make ends meet in creating and changing parts of my layout, and it often took quite a lot of experimenting with all sorts of small bits and pieces to get a good fit and a nice looking shape.
Sometimes you succeed with almost impossible things. Sometimes you have to reevaluate everything and come up with something different.
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Offline Fille  
#5 Posted : 21 October 2025 14:43:19(UTC)
Fille

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Thank you. I will have a check to see if i can get the gaps alittle smaller. Atm im playing around basicly adding a wye and a reverse loop to the starter pack. My thought process was that to have the train able to take some different paths. Writing this i just realised i might not need the wye to make the train go left or right in the right area...



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Offline Copenhagen  
#6 Posted : 21 October 2025 16:05:58(UTC)
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There is a lot of thinking and planning going on when making plans for a layout. One sits and looks at the picture and imagine how the trains will run from place to place and in what directions. Having a wye looks great (I only have a couple of reversing loops incorporated myself, one of them to be able to back train consists into staging tracks). The loop on your left side could be simplified if only a single track led into it. Lots of fun involved in the planning phase.
Offline Fille  
#7 Posted : 21 October 2025 17:25:21(UTC)
Fille

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Good points. Will look into it. The plan is to move the loop further down on left side as i get more experience and track and later on close the area at the bottom so i can have a train run around the whole layout but to spare a square hole in the middle to be able to reach things.

where the right leg ends is at a door but ive got like a door width and then an aditional meter of the room. (my english aint the best) So i have still room to stand and run the layout.
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