Not a very imaginative title but anyway. First off I have to do quite a bit of home engineering design to get things to fit through the loft hatch so unusually my longer sides are the width and the shorter sides are the length... so I have to build a fair number of base boards for this layout. 

Last time I was working on baseboard 3 and when I tried to get it though the hatch, because of the top deck it would't fit. Luckily I had only (double) screwed the top deck on so it was only a matter of removing the top deck to get it up into the loft. A check on the measurements and I found I was 5mm over so the next board has got to be 590mm wide (for the length now its getting confusing) so I don't have to go back through the palaver of screwing and unscrewing it again. 

Have been working on the top deck for the baseboard 2. I measured everything up and cut out some legs. From a wiring point of view I only need four drop downs to power the track but I might run one CBUS connection up to a point on the surface in the corner (that I can disguise under a building). The plan for scenery for this section is to do modular construction because its such a difficult corner to get into. Trackwork is all going to be flexible to save connections as I want all rails to have power running to them 

There was a lot of fiddling over a few evenings to get the topdeck of baseboard 2 sorted out and it came out several times before I was happy with it. Baseboard 1 and 2 are now physically connected to each other and tie up flush and level. So last night I started laying the track on the top deck of baseboard 2. I have some isolators fishplates now installed on the end of baseboard 1 plank and cut the first section of rail on baseboard 2 top deck. Started working with the 24 inch track setter for the inner track, with the intention to use a 30 inch track setter for the outer track. (I must remember to paint the board before I lay the track though)

CBus is ongoing although have several modules that aren't working at present but have started working on another CANSOL. I rewired my other CANSOL up to the test rig and thats all working again. I like to have CBUS switched on while im in the loft because its then 'under test' for long periods of time.