Now virtually up to date now with this post...
With the arrival of warmer weather, enthusiasm has returned to get on with the garden railway. A start has been made on the indoor section which has to share space with another 16mm project
First Sunday in June. This indoor section will be heavily industrial, featuring large factories, working cranes and radio controlled lorries.
It was more like a game of chess, moving stuff out the way to make room for constructing the storage framework, then to move it all back, hopefully in a neat organised manor.
I made a rough drawing of what I needed, bought a load of 2x2, then set to work with the help from some mates. Ultimately I should end up with a baseboard area 'L' shaped of 27.5 x 11.5 x 3 feet for an industrial area that is feed from the garden railway, underneath will be stored the baseboards for the under construction 16mm layout,
First Sunday in June. Above will be a shallow shelf for odds and ends, also the fascia (Saved from the
Theobald's Yard layout) will be affixed to this concealing the lighting. I am not sure whether to keep the indoor section in this thread or have a new thread for the indoor bit.
A few hours spread across a couple of days and we have made good progress.
We started with this. Back right is a rack storing the
First Sunday in June baseboards etc. Front right are the baseboards for
The Yard, all the supports etc. for this are left in the trailer. On the wall are a couple of display cabinets and a scaffold tower. Most of which has now been put into the other shed and garage. Eventually I want this shed to be just a layout going round three sides, but initially it will be one end and a side, the other side will remain as workbench and tools while we build the layouts.
Scraps of wood and some clamps working out various positions and measurements, many of which were chalked on the wall. Baseboard height will be just under a metre, gives enough clearance for the existing kitchen cupboards and be at a height not too much higher than the outside railway. Baseboard top to underside of fascia will be just over 700mm. I did scale up some of the factories from
The Yard layout, the tallest one would reach up above the planned fascia!
A few photos of the work in progress for the framework.
This basic main framework complete.
Next we are hoping to get the shelf frames installed and covered with OSB, then the
FSIJ baseboards can be finally stored in their new home. If we have time, the whole baseboard top may get done.
Once complete we can get on with the build of
First Sunday in June, I would like to get that finished by early next year. The garden line will develop in parallel. There is just a few smallish things to do on
The Yard (7mm narrow gauge) then we will call it a day with that layout, put it into off-site storage, to come out for exhibitions (next one is Railex, on 23-24 May. We do have bookings into 2028) and a another magazine photo shoot in June.
Martin
