Modbury - Baseboards (1)
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Now that I have a home for my new layout and a plan that I am happy with, I decided that I should make a start on the baseboards.
The first (Board 1) is the left hand traverser board. This has been constructed from 12mm ply for the ends and top with 8mm ply sides and 6mm ply for the cross bracing. The top was first dealt with first, a hole was drilled in the middle and a circle of 20" diameter drawn from that hole - I originally thought that I could use my router fixed to a trammel to cut out the deck but found the smallest cutter I had was 6mm (and a casual look in B&Q yielded nothing smaller) and since I didn't want a gaping chasm to bridge elected to cut the traverser by hand with a jigsaw. The depth of the sides was decided at 4" (or 100mm in new money 
), but for the traverser board the sides and end that isn't connected to another board were cut to a depth of 5" to hopefully stop any stock careering off to an untimely end. The cross bracing sections were slotted where they cross (and have a recess to accept a square of 12mm ply into which the traverser bearing will be located). All of these pieces were glued and pinned and once dry look like this :
The front of the traverser board has an arc of hardboard spaced off the side by a further piece of 12mm ply, to prevent accidents when being rotated (I hope). 
The second (Board 2) is the left hand station board. This has the same construction as the traverser board but has an 8mm ply top. At the end where it meets the traverser board, a back scene (or it a side scene?) panel of 6mm ply has been incorporated and is glued to the 12mm ply end piece. Before the parts were glued and pinned together, the end (with back scene) was clamped to the traverser board and the holes drilled for the alignment dowels and bolt fixings. The back scene along the rear of the board has been left off for now as I thought it would get in the way when I start to build the track, eventually it will be screwed to the upright supporting the side scene and a batten along the baseboard edge at the back. Once all had been glued and pinned it looks like this :
The front facia of this board has a gentle slope down from left to right, the aim is to have a road over bridge at the left of the scene to disguise the exit to the traverser (this end of the station will be in a slight cutting), at the right of the scene (next board along), the track will exit on an embankment with a couple of trees in front to disguise the exit.
The next one to do will be the right hand station board, and finally the right hand traverser board. which will both be pretty much mirror images of the two so far constructed. Hopefully I will get all of the boards complete before Christmas, the eventual track height will be about 4'0" above the floor.
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