Out to lunch with an old friend on Wednesday, and rubbish weather today, so make baseboards until the sun shines!

As previously explained the baseboard will be of high-density foam edged with 6mm ply..

First, I painted both sides of the foam with white emulsion -

I'm hoping this will (a) provide a surface for 'laying out' and b) limit the effects of any solvents etc which might spill on the surface and c) painting the underside should help make things more visible if maintenance is needed. No pointwork, but the wagon turntable and sewage filterbeds will all need mechanisms....

Next job was to build an inner frame. This mimics exactly the size of the baseboard -

and is made from 6mm ply 63mm deep (odd measurement...)

The baseboard (loosely) fits - I'll be gluing it all together tomorrow.

The sub-assembly will then be properly framed with 6mm ply 75mm deep - so maths will show that the foam is 12mm deep! Most of the ply is cut - just need daylight for the final bit! I'm going to leave the outer panel off the rear of the scenic board - I may well consider extending that upward to make a backscene

However, I've also made a start on hew trackwork -

'C&L' sleepers & 2-bolt chairs (Best GW practice!) but of course it is only the viaduct that will be laid thus... The 'ground-level' will be laid on PCB .Some of the 'Tannery Lane' track will be 'tramway' style (more on the production method later) and the sewage works siding laid as 'light rail'. I could have saved a recent order to 'C&L' if I'd thought it through properly!

BFN

Ian