A recent blitz to our bathroom resulted in a off cut of 9mm ply appearing in the skip, instantly retrieved by moi and chopped up into 3 inch wide strips 31 inches long and put to one side whilst I figured out the next step. After the demise of World's End Quay I was determined not to build anything that, for a small layout, would not fit comfortably in the car and not result in damage to it or me due to handling the heavyweight sections. So.....off to B&Q for some Knauf spaceboard and after a bit of spare timber found in the garage I've come up with this.........
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The layout, made up of three sections is 7ft 9inches long and 22 inches wide, the trackplan is the same as I used on my previous 7mm scale Alexandra Yard layout. The trackwork is real light railway stuff , perhaps a tad too light for some, being Karlgarin code 100 FB , I had a supply of it from a previously failed project just sitting there, which is part spiked down to basswood sleepers and soldered to PC board ones in other places.The turnouts are operated by Tortoise units which have been modified so that they can be embedded sideways into the 2" thick spaceboard thus....
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a pivot on the end of the unit connects upwards to the tie bar.
So that's it so far, some of the buildings from WEQ will get re-cycled, the area covered by cardboard will have some latex cobblestones put on it and the cut out area at the end of the board is where the end of a storage cassette will fit in ....for the present on with the wiring
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The layout, made up of three sections is 7ft 9inches long and 22 inches wide, the trackplan is the same as I used on my previous 7mm scale Alexandra Yard layout. The trackwork is real light railway stuff , perhaps a tad too light for some, being Karlgarin code 100 FB , I had a supply of it from a previously failed project just sitting there, which is part spiked down to basswood sleepers and soldered to PC board ones in other places.The turnouts are operated by Tortoise units which have been modified so that they can be embedded sideways into the 2" thick spaceboard thus....
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a pivot on the end of the unit connects upwards to the tie bar.
So that's it so far, some of the buildings from WEQ will get re-cycled, the area covered by cardboard will have some latex cobblestones put on it and the cut out area at the end of the board is where the end of a storage cassette will fit in ....for the present on with the wiring