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Polly Styrene

Posted by number6 , 07 November 2009 -

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Foamboard baseboard

Sliced a big piece of 5mm foamboard into a 90 degree curved board today. Used Evo-Stik wood glue - worked in the past - and small veneer pins to hold it together. I will remove the pins and encase the sides and ends in thin ply when its all set solid. This is to create low walls to stop things diving to the floor as well as to add to the stiffness. The...

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Curved baseboards

Posted by number6 , 01 November 2009 -

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Been working on the turnback at the south end today, drawing it up full-size and trying to get the right compromise between minimum radius and space used. I tested lots of my argumentative rolling stock and found that pretty much everything would go around an 800mm curve [just under 32in]. I've made this the inside radius and designed these boards to be...

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Old Southeham threads

Posted by number6 , 01 November 2009 -

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Some more stuff on the history of this project.
The previous Southerham thread
and
The one before...

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Southerham

Posted by number6 , 30 October 2009 -

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2009 has been a rubbish year of modelling for me. I feel like I've tinkered with stuff rather than making any progress. But what I do think I have achieved is some progress on the planning of Southerham MkIII. The first was the RMweb challenge layout, II was the extended version that still operates and fustrates in equal measure and III would be a huge...

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