The Railway Track is coming along nicely. I have made a 30" by 24" frame using 2" by 1" batten. I have also managed to drill 8 holes (two in each corner) for 8 x 65mm bolts and nuts so that I can bolt four legs to the layout base set at 24" high so Loverboy can stand and play with the railway set. I have even managed to drill out five holes in the middle 2" by 1" cross member, and cut the plywood base to 30" by 24". With all holes either countersunk or smoothed off depending on their final use. So all in all there has been some steady progress.
The layout design is also finished, and it has all been achieved using standard PECO Setrack and Setrack Points (turnouts). I intend to varnish all of the exposed timber and place a foam pad at the base of each leg. The initial oval at the lowest level should be fixed up tomorrow or by next weekend so that Loverboy can start enjoying himself. I will then expand the layout to the three levels and construct the scenery and some scratch built buildings over the Winter months. The idea is that the finished mini table with the developing layout can be positioned in my room and Loverboy can play with the layout in its various stages of construction whenever he is home visiting Grandad and the others.
The delay to next weekend is because my Nephew was really generous and went to our Flat in South Wales today and ripped out the bath, sink and bathroom tiles ready for the refurbishment. So while the gang remain at home and have a week without their Second-in-Command; yours truly will be trundling slowly to South Wales in the daughters 1.1 litre car to crack on with the tiling and various other jobs. It's a long hike to and from South Wales without 'the Beast', but maybe, they will at last bring her home from Italy by the time that I finish the tiling. Then again, probably not!
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