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An 8x4ft layout for the spare room using a LTM Layout Lift

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Quick Hills added

Grace hase been pottering about with her layout trying to fit things in her river is coming on but for me the most interesting thing is her hills ( now then major ) she found some FlexiLiner; used as a substitute to moss for hanging baskets, in our local Homebase 1.5m x 0.6m for £4.99 To make the hills all she did was to crumpled some newspaper up and put the flexiliner on top and without a lot of mess the results below. The edges of the flexiliner can be frayed and I am sure it has a lot of o

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emac

only a year on! but some progress

Well Grace hase made a start on her layout over the last year she has managed to build a few Metcalfe Kits and layed a test track; we have had a few trial tracks laid but the one she likes best is a twin oval with no sidings have tried to get her to redesign the track but it seems the village scene comes first; at least I can use the track layout to run in my loco's. the latest so far. The layout is fine on the ceiling only downside is we do not have a lot of space around the layout to be able

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emac

Grace's layout using a LTM Layout Lift

I have managed a start on my good lady Grace's 8ft by 4ft layout using a LTM Layout Lift to store it suspended from the ceiling in our small guest room.   The lift was installed as per the instructions     The layout base would have to be made as light as posible and was made from one sheet of 9mm ply for the framework and one sheet of 6mm as a top to hold two sheets of 50mm styro foam.     I began by cutting the 9mm ply sheet into 8 110mmm strips to form the sides; each strip double

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