You know that feeling you get when things are going well.

It has happened to me more than once, and it has happened again.

Just as I completed the track laying, SWMBO announced that we should go house hunting, I was not amused, it came completely out of the blue, and had never been mentioned in the previous 5 yrs, so like a developer building on a flood plain, I thought I was safe.

This meant some serious thinking, all layout work came to a spark emitting grinding halt as I considered the options, the baseboards had been built as one unit, so taking it apart would be the proverbial nightmare, no allowance for moving had been made in the wiring, or in the already built bits of scenics, after a couple of anxious weeks I came to the conclusion that nothing could be done but to rip it all up and start again, this time working around the fact that we would be moving in the future.

I decided that the best way to go was the skeletal baseboard route, and build it as if it had to be transported for exhibition, it was to me the only answer.

Yesterday my baseboards arrived flat packed supplied by Model Railway Solutions, no the cheapest on the net, or the most expensive to save money I went for their cheaper version.

Today has been spent building the three modules, I was pleased to see that there was enough of everything, pins, glue and screws for the boards, although you do have to source your own screws to fix the squared off cuts, which bring it all square and true.

As tomorrow is another day off I shall no doubt be heading off to a timber merchant for some legs, and MDF to continue with the build.