03-23-2012, 09:58 PM
No need to change gears, Bruce, as you seem to be well on your way. I've noticed a lot of people doing foam over plywood, even though they have a flat table-top layout, with no scenicked areas dug into the foam, and no stacked foam to represent hills or mountains, either. :?
I built my layout on 3/4" plywood, but in most places it's simply cut into strips or arcs of varying radii. I layed it out atop an open grid framework, putting the curves in first, as the layout room is an odd shape. I used the widest curves that would fit, then simply connected them with straight bits. All the pieces were then spliced together, risers added to the underside, then the whole shebang was jacked-up to varying heights and fastened into place. This was a lot more fun than scribbling trackplans, and seems to have worked out fairly well.
Wayne
I built my layout on 3/4" plywood, but in most places it's simply cut into strips or arcs of varying radii. I layed it out atop an open grid framework, putting the curves in first, as the layout room is an odd shape. I used the widest curves that would fit, then simply connected them with straight bits. All the pieces were then spliced together, risers added to the underside, then the whole shebang was jacked-up to varying heights and fastened into place. This was a lot more fun than scribbling trackplans, and seems to have worked out fairly well.
Wayne