Baseboard & Track Plan

Baseboard made

I've been working on the baseboard - this is made entirely from 10mm foam-core board. Dimensions are 1,650mm long by 600mm wide, which is just about enough to give enough space to fit in the Newbury Wharf station. There will also be a cassette fiddle yard attached too.

 Here you can see the construction, liberal use of bracing, PVA, and masking tape.

 The finished item, which is amazingly light and rigid, so hopefully will do the job.

Track

I've been using Templot, and John Clutterbuck's O14 templates for the track layout, I'll be handbuilding all the track, again following John's article on building the track http://o14group.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/O14_track_articles.pdf 

It'll be the first time I've hand-built any turnouts, have done plain track before, so looking forward to that challenge! 

 The track plan from Templot has now been applied to the baseboard, there is a layer of foam underlay to go over this before the actual track, which will hopefully help with the drum effect of the foam board base board.