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The development of my shed layout.

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3. The Scenery Begins.

The OO Garden Shed   by Ginger64   original page on Old RMweb   After track laying and wiring some basic scenery was required. The traditional home layout tunnel was added. This was made up from layers of foam polystyrene bult up and glued with PVA. The top layer is removable to allow access to the tunnel area incase of derailments. At this stage I still was not sure what feature I would put on top. Once set the layers were cut to shape and then covered in a polyfiller PVA mix with some p

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2. Track Laying, Electrics, Control System.

The OO Garden Shed   by Ginger64   The next stage was to lay the track. All track used was typical code 100 with Hornby Insulfrog points. All points are to be operated by Hornby point motors. At the last count there was about 35 points with motors. All track was laid onto cork glued to the baseboards with PVA. All the boards were painted grey prior to final pinning of the track. Holes were cut into the baseboards to fit the point motors under the points. I obtained a DC Guagemaster Q Four Tr

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1. The Begginning-Track Plans, Baseboards, and The Shed.

The OO Garden Shed   by John Geeeee original page on Old RMweb   Just setting up my old RMweb layout thread by copying it over using Martins transfer utility. Thanks Martin Now I will try and tidy up the copy of the old RMweb thread to make it a bit easier to read. This will involve removing some of the older general comments and the addition of more detail and pictures from the early scenic work. I will try and give the blog a bit more of a chapter feel to each stage of my progress. I ho

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