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 track should probably go on an underlay of some sort. I'm thinking that the neoprene route is probably better than cork as the latter is quite he
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 three tracks wide - the actual width of the board is 165mm with 50mm track centres. These will not be scenic boards and removable when not runni
Some more stuff on the history of this project.
The previous Southerham thread
and
The one before that
and
The summary in the challenge competition
Boy I enjoyed taking part in that!
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 tail chaser with more of all the things I enjoyed from the first two. So with apologies to anyone who remembers me blathering on like this two ye