Prototype for Everything Department - Forward

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My whole World is a Stage - Back

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This weekend I started building the buildings for St Ouen. I was demonstrating at the local show building buildings from scratch, using photographs a source material.

The buildings in the photograph represents a days work, whilst talking to members of the public and explaining the project and the process from an initial thought to a design, then onto baseboard construction.

My buildings need more work, include painting, fitting windows, doors, chimneys etc., but they give a more concrete idea of how the layout will look.

I have looked at various ways of supporting a flexible backscene. I feel that the best way forward is to use a single support in the centre of the back threaded into a loop on the back of the backscene.

The sequence of fitting would be fit the backscene at the front, put the support into the loop, and put the fixing screw in. As the screw is tightened, the support moves into the vertical position and tightened the backscene and hopefully corrects the droop.

The problem of the droop is caused, by the tendency of a material, such as card when bend around the base of the layout will attempt to return to the flat state.

Lisa