Well,

I am extremely happy to report that I have been one very busy bee over the last 3 days. The modelling mojo has well and truly taken hold .

The small pile of wood during the last blog has now taken on structure, that of some baseboards and a lighting stand.

This is what it started life out like. 12mm MDF 2400 * 1200 sheets rip cut on a table saw ( Thanks to bob and his lovely wife for putting up with the mdf dust and giving me a hand and a lend of their table saw ). This gave me 22 lengths off wood. I also picked up some 30mm X 30 mm pine which forms the corner joins of the baseboards.

Once the running around with all the wood had taken place and its was safely back in the nice dry shed it was time for the fun to start, or should I say play?

Thanks to the plans created and printed out in Templot 2 weeks ago I knew exactly where all the boards would go. The question was if the planning was good enough for everything to slot into place.

On Friday I took the plunge and started on the first board. This was going to be the easiest to put up as it sits between two brick walls that are parallel to each other.

This was the first one. 580mm of 100mm MDF attached to 800 mm of 30mm*30mm. The long pine posts form the support for the lighting. Because of the shape of the layout. None of them fall inside the viewing area which I am pretty happy about.

Saturday morning I ended up with this:

Next a 9mm MDF board was cut to fit on the inside. At the moment they look like flat top boards, however once I am %100 happy with the location of the track location in relation to the rest of the room, the boards will be elevated above the base board frames so that relief can be added to the terrain.

A little was in order. So a little flex track and some rolling stock was put into place. Pity I miss placed the pack of joiners so I had some length to run.

Once the first was up the confidence to do the others followed. The next one was the other corner.

Finally two centre boards were added. These are all held in place with a combination of bolts nuts and washers and DCC Concepts alignment dowels.

The alignment dowels are extremely simple to put in and do an excellent and very tight fit. Ill endeavour to post the instillation of a pair in the next blog.

And last but not least an board for lighting was placed up.

Overall the feel of the room has completely changed, however now that everything is up, the room actually feels a lot more open than I imagined it would feel. Im guessing that is an advantage of wall mounted baseboards

The minister of war and finances is also very happy as there is plenty of room beneath the layout with which she can continue to sew. Also there have been promises of some low level lighting to illuminate her ( and mine ) desks.

Apologies for the blurry photos, Although for a mobile phone, photos are much better than where we were at 5 years ago.