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 There no such thing as too many drills...
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 and there's no such thing as too much
internal bracing
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 especially if someone else is doing the
cutting
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 Bill loves to drill
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LAYOUT
SIZE and BASEBOARD CONSTRUCTION
The layout is 6.0m x 3.0 m. The
individual baseboards are 2.0 metres long and 900mm wide. They sit on
three legged trestles. The baseboards are made from 12 mm structural
plywood. They are extensively braced underneath. We have found that tos
surfaces of the layout boards tend to sag over time without thorough
bracing. |
 fitting the baseboards joints meant even more drillling, note Simon,on the right, supervising |
 it was decided we required even more internal bracing |
 The power packs for the new lighting system produced by Jonathan |
 Lights connect with DIN plugs. Varnished as well ! |
 Lashings of varnish to seal the boards
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 Everybody wants to use Phil's drills
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 lets put in just one more brace
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 Tim applying a base coat of paint and a topping of senic material |
 Adam working on the backscene boards
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 Track joints from the front boards
to the fiddle yard |
 Mike fabricated a new system for
bolting the boards together |
 Completed scratch built
signals
New York
Central style on the left, C&O style on the right
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 Phil soldering gauntlet track
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 Bill ballasting track
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TRACK
The track on the scenic portions of the layout is code 83 flex track made by Micro Engineering. The tracks are laid on 6mm cork and a 17mm ply subroadbed. The minimum radius curve is around 900mm (3 feet). The gauntlet track is hand laid. It is soldered onto copper clad fibreglass sleepers. The turnouts (points) on the front boards are made by Micro Engineering. The crossings are from Shinohara. |
 Sub roadbed (17mm plywoood) and cork getting glued
down.
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 Bridge
abutments in place.
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 Bridge, track and landforms in place |
 River bottom painted, scenicing underway
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 Left hand end board. Track laid.
Land form contours being built up |
 Left hand and middle board with land forms
and bridge in place
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 Structures in place, scenics underway
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| Right hand end board.
Track laid. Addtional scenic bridges in place. |
Land forms contours being built
up- foam and spackfiller |
First layer of scenic
material added lots of blended turf |
Ballasted, tower in place,
greenery along the track in progress |
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SCENICS
The
ground work is made up of plywood, styrofoam and spack filler. We used
Woodlands Scenics products mainly to do the scenics. The river is
simulated using artist’s gloss medium sculpted over a painted base.
STRUCTURES The
buildings on the layout are mainly kits produced by Walthers which were
built up or kit bashed by club members. The Highway bridge is a Rix kit
as are the highway guard rails. The plate girder railway bridge is a
chopped up Atlas kit.
The lineside details such as relay cabinets and switch motors are white metal castings from Details West. The flashing railway crossing signals are a Busch kit. The signals were scratch built. The bridge has been adapted from the Walthers Bascule bridge kit |
