Baseboards built and track plan down
The overall track plan I posted was a little crowded to see the detail. The baseboards were built with the help of my good friend and fellow NAG member Ken Kirk in his well equiped wooworking shed. The baseboards were constructed of 12mm furniture grade plywood which a NAG member put us in contact with. The photo shows Ken making sure everything was flat and square and the boards were screwed and glued with Gorilla glue.
Once the boards were built they returned to my garage, and here lies a problem it was a concrete sectional and despite my attempts to insulate it was damp. So layout building came to a stop whilst I had a new concrete sectional garage built but this time fully insulated and a set of cheap kitchen units from B@Q formed the "legs" for the layout and gave storage. However this whole process took a year out of working on the layout.
The pointwork was built by a fellow NAG member Tont Wilkins and Tony also printed of the track plan for me to lay down on the layout. I used cork for the track base however the rolls are dificult to get flat, and cork floor tiles are sealed on one side and I was unsure about how things would stick, but I found boxes of untreated cork tile at my local charity shop for a few punds and this solved the problem. Having laid the cork I then stuck down the trackplan with the type of wallpaper past that you put on the wall first and that worked a treat.
There are only 2 buildings on the layout, a signal box and the loco shed.
The interchange sidings are opposite to the signal box.
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