I see that I haven't updated the blog since last year so here's an update on progress.
(Image created with Templot Sketchboard - completely impossible to have progressed this far without Templot!). Green track is completed, yellow is work in progress. Basboard outlines in red, magenta shapes are the baseboard supports - an 'H' gateleg arrangement.
6 of the 11 boards are now constructed. I won't complete the others (3, 6, 7 and 8 and particularly the turntable board 5C), until the shed board (2A) is completed. I will make a start on board 6 as soon as board 5C is completed. Board 3 and 7 are only backscene boards and board 8 will probably start life as a temporary fiddle yard.
The trackwork on board 1 is nearing completion.
In the background (above, foreground below) is the partly completed Bulleid pacific 34019 'Bideford' - a regular at Brighton in the 1950s and early 60s. The reason that the tender is lower than the loco is that I've removed the chassis from the tender so it's resting on its axle horns. The loco is also an 0-6-0 as I haven't completed the bogie and pony trucks yet!
The white space to the right of Bideford in the upper photo is for the weighhouse which is in progress and almost complete.
I made a bit of a guppy with this and originally drew it 20% too large, but thanks to CAD, I was able to reduce it to the correct size before too much progress had been made.
The next stage is to complete the baseboard supports so that I can connect board 2A to board 1 to progress with the shed roads. I won't be able to complete the shed roads until the induction charging system has been completed, which should be sometime in 2015.
I'm also having problems with the flat bottom track that makes up most of the West Coast running lines. Because of the third rail, the baseplates for this era were the very specific type BR3, so I might have to end up making my own. I'm not keen on using copper clad so I am going to have to create a system for flat bottom third rail. Suggestions gratefully received!
Tony Hagon
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