I'm sure there have been thousands of these things built, described, photographed, analysed, discussed, praised, dismissed, rebuilt, relaid and thrown away by the good members of this fine community and the great wide world of railway modelling beyond.
But none until now were made by me and I'd be lying if I didn't admit to a huge sense of pride and achievement in finally being able to say "I've built some of me own track". Not to mention relief.
So here it is in all its glory, one down
I'm heavily indebted to Chris Nevard's excellent blog on Catcott Burtle for inspiration on using foamboard as a baseboard, not to mention the various threads on this site where the topic has been discussed - very usefully - at length. So here's my contribution for what it's worth. If theres anything worth noting its this...
1) I used ordinary 5mm foamboard from Hobbycraft. I got 5 sheets at a 10% discount as they were very slightly scuffed at one corner. So far I've used 4 and a half of them
Have Templot, will plan track. Above all else I keep trying to remind myself that this is a first attempt and a trial effort to learn things, pick up skills and make mistakes. And so it needs to be small in scale and acheivable in time and resources. Luckily at the moment I don't have a cavernous loft/spare room/barn waiting to be filled with Venice-Simplon in gauge 1, so my kitchen table makes a handy size constraint onto which the whole thing should fit for construction and should the joyous d
Well all I can say at the moment is the next train to arrive will be...arriving at some point. I can't say when and I don't really know yet what it will look like when it does, but at least, for the moment anyway, I'm pretty sure where.
Yes, as far as I'm concerned, the next train to arrive, will be arriving at St Germans Quay. It will have set off earlier in the day from somewhere in the westernmost reaches of East Cornwall, Liskeard possibly, or maybe on a shorter run from Menheniot. It wi
