Well, winter time means cold, and that means difficult working conditions either in the loft, which is cool but tolerable on the warmer days, or in the garage, which seems to be colder than outside on the warmer days, but tolerable for building baseboards that can be left for glue or paint to dry and work done in stages.

Anyway, the last of the 26 baseboards was completed on 9 March and since then I have been tying the power bus connections together from board to board. Two buses, one for track power and other for accessories, plus 2 sets of holes drilled to carry auxiliary power or communications cables through from one baseboard to the next.

The main problem has been that the house is ridiculously out of square. Victorian property OK but this is Bryants 1990's and we are talking maybe 1 foot or more. Maybe you can see that there are small overlaps in the positioning of successive boards - well they are all perfectly rectangular but the trusses are sightly offset to each other so the boards finish up needing to be offset to maintain position between trusses. This is the second layout but due to the different constructional method employed for the first, the offset wasnt so obvious as now. I will hide it a bit when scenery is installed. 

With the lights just turned on the pace looks a bit gloomy but once they get warmed up its quite well lit.

The layout is in a U-shape. The ends are one baseboard separate from each other so that there is room for 2/3rd radius parallel tracks to make a full turn each side and me to squeeze my sylph like figure through the gap.

Now waiting for some point motors to arrive so I can really get into the track laying!