Over the past couple of weeks I have added a 2mm layer of adhesive foam to the remaining boards including the seven in the fiddle yard. My choice of a roll of 10m x 1mm 'Envoy Multi Adhesive Underlay' via Ebay has proved relatively easy to lay and economic at just shy of £18 for the roll. The adhesive layer on one side needs careful handling when peeling back the clear plastic covering sheet but once in place it grabs well and sticks. You will not remove it easily. Made of recycled rubber tyres it will take adhesives - I have used PVA for fixing the track work - but is also waterproof and has the added advantage of being black.

Each board joint has a 10mm wide piece of 2mm thick strip wood glued across the ends - from Cornwall Model boats. This is there to fix the track ends. I use 12BA cheese-head brass screws as fixing points to solder the rail onto at the board joints. When laying the foam I initially found it difficult to remove the 10mm strip of foam at each end of a board - as mentioned it sticks well!! After battling with one board I used a 10mm length of masking tape along each end prior to fixing the foam mat and hey presto the cut 10mm strip just peeled away. The stripwood was then glued in position.

Having finished laying the foam I moved onto something different pending arrival of the templot plan for the fiddleyard.
I obtained a rake of Comet coaches from Geoff Brewin's estate and being 00 I have converted them to P4 using Bill Bedford LMS coach bogie etches. The etched frames fold and solder well but the brake shoes are something else. Thanks to Mike G for his assistance in the build. He left off the brakes and I now know why. After adding the brakes and wished I hadn't as they are very difficult to position correctly. I decided to remove the inner shoes and adjust the outer sets to stop them rubbing of the wheels once the weight of the coach body was added to the sprung bogies. They run really well now.