Baseboard framework completed
With milder weather arriving over the weekend I was able get about 7 hours of building time in the garage. I also had a couple of trips to B&Q for timber, ply, screws and bolts. For reference I used the following ingredients:
- Smooth Planed Timber which comes in packs of 6. (L)2100 x (W)44 x (T)18mm
- 4 x 40mm wood screws - I bought a 500 pack from B&Q, very reasonable
- 4 x 40mm nuts with bolts to bolt framework sections together.
- 6mm Brazil Ply. This stuff comes in huge sheets, so I get B&Q to cut it down to 2′x4′ strips for me.
That’s all the ingredients I used, I couldn’t tell you how much of each I used as I lost track. The most expensive part is the timber, it came in at about £9 per pack and I used a lot as I was also using it to make the legs, which I did by screwining 2 lengths together into a kind of L shape. The first image below explains this better.
All that’s left to do at the moment is attach the plywood tops and brace the legs to stop them moving left and right when they are knocked. Then the plan is to get the tracked laid and wired before getting the tools back out and building a backscene to separate the main running line from the hidden sidings at the rear, that’s another post though.
Track layout planning is pretty much there and is being discussed on this thread. I am toying with the idea of losing the ‘depot area’ and really make it a nice mainline run with a station at the bottom. It has been pointed out that the layout bears resemblance to ‘Dawlish‘, something which wasn’t intentional.
