The baseboard I bought was only 5mm ply. This means that I needed to glue and pin some 2”x1” to the underside where my track was going so that it could pin properly and not just pop-out.

Unfortunately, I’d already laid the track, fitted the Twist Lock point motors and trimmed their pins to length (more on that later) before I realised this. So I had to leave “gaps” where the point motors were, which means the actual points themselves couldn’t be pinned down or else the pins ended up digging in the point motor mechanism (cough, never guess how I found that out). So the 2”x1” doesn’t quite cover the whole track layout.

Pulling the lever on the points makes the second point jump from side to side. Which is likely me fixing the Twistlock a millimetre or three our of whack ☹ and the design of the Twicklock (brilliant as it is) won’t survive that small adjustment ☹