Hi,

We managed to fit in an evening working session last week and after finishing off the front fascia's it was time to profile them so that they followed the scenery on the front of the layout.

We set about marking the terrain profile on the inside of the fascia boards, then removed them and carefully cut the profile with a jigsaw using a very fine blade so that we wouldn't splinter the ply. Once we had re-attached the fascia's to the boards, we packed out any gaps between the scenery and the ply with 'blue roll', then covered with some strips of modroc which was laid over the top of the profiled ply. As the weather has been so dry and warm, this set almost before we'd got it smoothed down and in place. I was a little concerned it wouldn't bond very well to the ply but all seemed to be fine and the end result looked very promising.

We have another work evening scheduled for Wednesday this week and we hope to be able to finish off the other two boards completing the basic scenery closest to the viewing public. We can then start working on the other side of the lines and start putting together the laser cut retaining wall and embankments.

Cheers, Mark.