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A break from laying track and working on the magnorail and for me electrics which I hate with a passion I took on a Scale Model Scenery Barn, this still needs weathering and I've also spent time building more Wills and Ratio platforms and station buildings, again these will need weathering also, but a good start.

The barn was built then wrapped in Slaters Pastikard rather than using the kits wraps that are provided, for me this looks far better.

The station platforms comfortable holds this 5 coach mk1 rake with a class 25, ignore the track work underneath the platforms are resting on the fiddle yard for now till I get the next baseboard built.

Well since our last update we have now finished the road bed and added cork sides after installing the Magnorail track and chain, I've got the .5mm polyproline for the road surface and that will be glued to the cork before running to make sure we don't have any issues before gluing the track level and viaduct in place. 

Today we built the raised trackbed and started to glue the cork in place and look at the position of the road running along and underneath the viaduct, a very productive day

You could run the bracing length ways rather than across the width, as you baseboards are shorter I don't think you will have an issue with twisting 

Andy

The baseboards are 2x 1500 x 600 & 1x  600 x 300 braced with 80mm deep plywood strip, we have braced the boards every 300mm, with the back board attached the boards are fairly rigid at only 600mm deep so we don't feel the need to add extra cross bracing, but time will tell and extra bracing can be added if required.

A regular question we get asked during the Warley show is how to make baseboards for model railways, luckily I've managed to spend a lot of time with club member Ian Carter and he shared a few tips.

Use good quality Birch Plywood purchased and cut by a timber merchant, this enables you to build strong square baseboards.

Pin and glue the ply together using butt joints, but hammer the pins in on an angle almost like dovetails, this reduces the risk of the pins pulling out.

I've used these L shaped brackets to strengthen the corners, screwed in on angle, the large hole was drilled out to enable nuts and bolts to join the baseboards together.

For baseboard alignment I used these metal dowels from Station Road Baseboards, however DCC Concepts now sell alignment dowels that can be used to carry power from board to board. This is something we would consider for future projects.

So what did we use

9mm Birch Plywood frames

4mm Birch Plywood tops

6mm Birch Plywood trackbed

No More Nails Glue

L shaped angle brackets

Station Road Baseboards Alignment Dowels

We will add further build images as we get on with this new layout

Hi Andy can you add me to this group please as assistant Exhibition Manager for Warley MRC

Thanks both for coming, I hope you got your slice of cake

A few more pictures from the day, was fantastic thanks for coming along to the Warley Club

Hi Richard only just found your thread but will follow your progress on here as well as on YouTube, be good to see pictures and updates as crack on with your many little projects on the layout Andy

Looking good Terry, that track looks far better now it's been weathered round the concrete bridge, let me know if you find any mk1 buffet open second or firsts, never seem to get hold of them, can only get brakes at decent cost Andy

Great progress Terry coming along nicely now, feel slow compared to you Andy

Hi all

 

Today i received a new loco.....can you all guess what it is?[/quote

 

Honest Iv'e not looked is that 85 you wanted Andy

Hi all

 

Only the Hornby class 50 and the Bachmann class 20 in BR green remain for sale if anyone is interested. Photos of these locos are on the previous page.

For all of those that have purchased the other locos i am now going to post them tomorrow instead of wed this week.

Mine arrived this morning love it thanks Terry

Hi Terry just gone through all your pictures from start to finish, the tamper looks awesom have you motorised it, can't wait to see it on your next YouTube update, and definitely buying the magazines with your layout pictures in when its published

Andy

Hi Dave didn't know you was on here, have voted and will keep an eye out for further posts, Iv'e posted pictures of my station buildings and some weathering projects I've started

Andy

Ordered and paid my deposit at Warley, had a look at the version on display and it was superb, can't wait to get the finished version now Andy