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Originally built as a Modern Image layout for the 2007 RMWeb Challenge . The blog now also covers my other layout (the Boxfile),  wild ideas for new layouts and general reflections...

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Boxfile

Served Up On A Tray - Dessert

We left the Boxfile last time safely installed on its new tea-tray, but with the track joints still to patch, and scenery to touch up.   The track joints were not at all good - they never have been. In the worst place I think there was a horrifying 4mm long gap in the railhead.   The solution was a bodge I've used in one or two places on Blacklade, though not on quite such a scale. This is to cut a sliver of 40 thou plasticard and superglue it in place in the gap. Once the
Ravenser

Ravenser in Boxfile

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Boxfile

Served Up On A Tray - Main Course

The deed is done - or at least most of it. On Saturday I duly trotted off to the local DIY sheds. Unfortunately Wickes and B&Q locally do not cut timber , and Buildbase - who might - were closed. But a sheet of 5mm ply in B&Q was only £5.47, so I bought it anyway.   Having got it home and marked out the cutting plan I discovered that if you heavily score the desired cutting line on both sides with a Stanley knife you can snap 5mm ply along the line much as you would do 40 thou
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Ravenser in Boxfile

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Boxfile

Served Up On A Tray

This is by way of a short "statement of concept" note.   The Boxfile (formally Whitefriargate Goods) has been out of commission for a couple of years, after the end of the fiddle yard track became damaged. At one level this simply means a basic and fairly straightforward repair. But it has thrown into sharper relief the main problem with this layout.     That's the board joint. The two files are currently held together - when assembled - by fishplates connecting th
Ravenser

Ravenser in Boxfile

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