First off I needed to make some minor changes to the track plan, shifting point locations in order to clear cross members on the baseboards. Once this was sorted I then made a start on test fitting templates onto the two baseboards. This was made slightly more tricky by not having the station board built (with the end of the platform being the datum from which everything else needed to be aligned...) Thankfully a combination of the CAD drawing, and positioning the station boards templates on the floor, enabled me to accurately determine where the joint would be, and start laying templates on the next board.

At the moment all I have done is place the templates on the board, firstly so that I could start overlaying the Colin Craig templates for the S&C, but also so I can start to get a proper idea of the layouts size.

Further discussion with Colin has identified a few more areas which require changing, principally the need to convert the track heading into the station to jointed track (its going to have the top line as jointed FB with BR1 base plates, the next with PAN11 base plates and the bottom road in BH. This also thankfully removes the need to make so many adjustment switches!

The final job today (shown in the bottom photo) was producing a simple plasticard jig for correcting the Exactoscale F27 sleepers to a 700mm spacing, took a while to get enough bits of plasticard cut to the right spacing (for some reason the chopper wasnt producing accurate cuts!) but got there in the end. Haven't tested it with rail yet, but looks like it aught to work. A length of the exactoscale track as it comes is shown above for comparison.

The next job is going to be determining exactly how much of the BR1 and PAN11 sleepers are going to be required so that I can get them (and the adjustment switches) ordered and have something to work on while I wait for the S&C kits to be released. Suppose I also aught to get on and get baseboard no3 built as well at some point.....