Foaming baseboards Batman!
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Since the last blog entry I've been pretty busy. The entire layout was dismantled, all the shelves and even the shelving track removed from the room and the whole place redecorated. The result means that the plethora of holes drilled in the wall previously got filled up and everything looks much cleaner!
When everything went back into the room and fitted together again I was well pleased. The backscene is held up by industrial strength Velcro and is sitting about 5mm above the top of the baseboard. This gap will obviously get hidden once the ground form goes in but it means I can pull the baseboards out without disrupting the backscene.
The room is actually tidier too (honest!) and I had a purge of old magazines and bought another 'trofast' unit (with the plastic buckets) from Ikea.
The box files containing all the magazines had always been a tasteful Great Eastern blue, but had the big problem that I could never remember what was in each folder. Labeling was clearly needed but I wanted something better than tatty paper labels. On the grounds that 'if you have it use it' I opted to laser cut some labels out of 1.5mm MDF, paint them in Humbrol dark blue enamel and then pick out the lettering in white. I will acknowledge that this will be viewed as a little over-the-top but I was rather pleased with the result.
Boy does it make things easier to find.
I still however have 6 folders just full of odd photocopies I don't want to throw away for various reasons. These include a 'handbook' for the operation of the never completed Cambridge Area Group 'Saffron Walden' layout by Allan Sibley and a rather nice plan for a Burton-on-Trent brewery railway.
I also found my original 'Modeller's License' which allows me to build and operate a model railway with complete disregard to prototype fidelity. Signed by the late, great Mr O O Whyte-MettelKit.
Now I've found that again I can continue modelling!
David
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