Cheddar - time for an update
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Well it's been a few weeks since my last confession, so I thought I'd post an update.
It's quite useful seeing where I was at the beginning of March because to me progress is glacial. When I look back at the last entry I can see that I've done more than I realise!
Board 8 (the one at the Wells end of the layout) has seen the contours formed with a mixture of foam board and one strike light weight filler from my local diy emporium (Proper Job - other retail outlets are available) which can be applied in a thick layer and sets hard after 24 hours. Very impressed with this stuff and crucially it's really light. Almost foam like.
I've made a start on the overbridge now that the turnout mechanism has been installed, driven via a remote linkage from a Tortoise motor. The stone sheeting is Peco 2mm stone. Better than the usual Wills coarse stone for representing Mendip stonework IMHO.
Board 7 was worked on at the same time to match contours etc.
Board 6 has been dragged up from the garage and the baseboard tops added from a mixture of 12mm ply and 3mm laminate floor underlay for the track base and blue 15mm foam everywhere else to keep the weight down.
With boards 6&7 bolted together I've laid the main running lines with ply and plastic components.
Most of board 6 will have the main station building and train shed covering it hence if you look closely you'll notice I'm using a load of 3 bolt chairs I had left over rather than 2 bolt GWR ones...
That's my story anyway and I'm sticking to it!
Track work flows nicely to my eye anyway. Need to finish off board 8 before the next board can take its place on the production line.
Until next time.TTFN.
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