Over the last week I've been mostly working on some rolling stock, but today have been able to put together the first of the baseboards.

As has been explained previously, I intend to use the 'Jigsaw' method of construction. This has been giving me headaches over the past few days, but today I bit the bullet and got on with it.

The first board is below;

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The result? - Not half bad, especially the slabs underneath (photo taken in the garden for natural light) aren't the most level.

Framing is blocks of 2" x 1", pinned to the ply 'top'. Another thing to consider is that this was just placed together for the photo - there will be catches holding the boards together. You can see the lines of each 'piece' a little more than I would like, because the jigsaw (power tool, not baseboard design - confusing stuff) made the edges a little rough. I intend to cover the boards in cork to make it a little neater (and hide the pins).

I am though pleased with it so far - I am by no means a master craftsman - but the three sections 'mesh' nicely together already, before adding the catches. For this photo, in order to expose the joints to scrutiny, I took the full-scale plan off, but a quick glimpse of the layout plan below shows that these three boards are numbers 1, 2 and 5.

Comments and questions are, as always, welcome and appreciated.