Custom Built Baseboards

[Great Western]

I looking for the company who construction baseboards to order, I've seen many people on here have them and also an article in one of the rail modelling magazines, but I can't for the life of me remember their name.

 

The boards are constructed in a box like fashion to allow as big a board as to require.

 

Any assistance would be great.

 

Many thanks

 

Great Western

[cpman46]

Or try this: http://www.modelrailwaysolutions.co.uk

[Great Western]

I'm thinking brilliant baseboards, based in Yorkshire? Does that ring a bell?

 

Regards

Great Western

[peter220950]

Could it be

 

whiterosemodelworks.co.uk

 

perhaps??

[BernardPearson]

I'm making my own.  Four are needed and must fit in the car for transportation. 

The layout is to S7 standard so turnouts are long and the layout must fit into 33 sq ft,

to comply with the S7 challenge.  Given the constraints of not wanting the

pointwork to cross baseboard joins then three 1200 x 600 mm baseboards and one

600 x 600 mm baseboard are needed. 

 

I've started using the plywood beam approach with a depth of 100 mm with

100 x 75mm softwood spacers between the two 6mm plywood beams.  The

easy part was getting the woodstore to cut the 8 x 4 ft sheet into 100 mm

beams.  Cutting these to length is no problem as I have a mitre block and

saw, without which I wouldn't contemplate making my own baseboards.

 

So far the awkward part has been coping with the fact that even the best

sheet of plywood I selected had a warp in it over its length.  I think that it

almost impossible to buy a sheet without some degree of warping.  To cope

with this means making the warp on the inner beam go counter to the warp

in the outer beam, and G-clamping the beams in at least three five places

on the longest beams whilst the wood-glue hardens.  At least five G-clamps

are required.

 

I'm partway through the first long board, so I shall have to see if this design

proves successful before tackling the other three.  So far the investment in the kit to

make the baseboards is quite moderate, especially as I picked up the G-cramps

at a second-hand tool shop.  The only other tools that I have used is an engineers

square and a sharp blade, used for marking out.

 

So far, as the kitchen table is flat enough and big enough to ensure that the

baseboard can be built flat, I would recommend making your own baseboards.